Headline News Archive

2008

July

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• Housing rescue bill may fall short. Is it a remedy for the worst housing slump the nation has suffered in decades? Or merely a taxpayer-funded bailout that will fail to reverse

• ¿A quién ayudará la ley de rescate?. El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el proyecto de ley que busca apuntalar al sector hipotecario y que autorizaría préstamos por miles de

• Bienes raíces cuídate de los contratistas deshonestos. Si necesitas hacerle a tu casa un arreglito, mucha atención con aquellos que, pretendiendo ayudarte, se robarán tu confianza y tu dinero Si

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• Housing bill unlikely to perform miracles. Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted yesterday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and

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• Property tax relief, without itemizing. The giant federal housing and foreclosure relief legislation heading for enactment contains a little-noticed - but potentially far-reaching - change in real estate tax policy.

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• Consumers fall further behind financially. Americans' household finances are bad and getting worse, and that spells trouble for the economy for the rest of the decade, according to a study

• Thousands flock for a chance at loan relief. The homeowners started lining up at 4 a.m. yesterday, some, like Patricia Ephraim, coming for a second or third day. Ephraim, who lives in Silver

• Huge housing bill set to become law. The House yesterday easily approved legislation that seeks to slow the steepest slide in house prices in a generation, rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners

• Se vislumbra el rescate inmobiliario. La Cámara Baja aprobó ayer un amplio proyecto de vivienda que ayudará a más de 400 mil propietarios a evitar el embargo de sus

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• El costoso rescate de las hipotecarias. El rescate federal de las gigantescas empresas hipotecarias Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac podría costar a los contribuyentes hasta 25,000 millones de dólares, dijo

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• Mortgage crisis reverses tide of urban renewal. On Reservoir Hill, just north of downtown Baltimore, one of this city's most hopeful revitalization projects is falling apart. Over the past two years, 95 properties

• Congress to limit down-payment assistance. Mortgage programs that helped nearly 79,000 people buy homes using government-insured loans last year would be eliminated as part of a broader housing package that Congress

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• Americans dig deeper into debt. The collection agencies call at least 20 times a day. For a little quiet, Diane McLeod stashes her phone in the dishwasher. But right up until

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• Congress' long delayed mortgage legislation. After six months of haggling and political gamesmanship, a massive housing relief bill is heading for final approval. Although it has hundreds of pages and

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• Little foreclosure relief seen from housing bill. After a year of debate, Congress appears close to passing a bill intended to stem the rising tide of home foreclosures and stabilize the shaky

• Help for harried homeowners. The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America is doing something that should have been done a long time ago. Beginning this Saturday, the nonprofit housing advocacy

15

• Officials work fast to shore up mortgage system. Underscoring the depth and breadth of the housing crisis and the risk it poses to financial markets and the economy, federal officials continued working furiously

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• Home equity lines frozen at IndyMac. The federal regulators who seized IndyMac Bank late last week reiterated Sunday that its branches would be open as usual this morning but said home

• Estimate your carbon footprint. The Baltimore Sun offers a quick quiz to find out your current fuel emissions. The calculator was created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• No más abusos al ofrecer hipotecas. La Reserva Federal aprobó nuevas normas para proteger a los compradores de viviendas de las prácticas "abusivas" por parte de los bancos que inflaron

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• Silence of the lenders: Anyone listening?. Dan Bailey Jr. was desperate when he sat down on May 19 to send an e-mail message to his mortgage lender, the Countrywide Financial Corporation, pleading,

• Keep energy dollars from going up in smoke. You know it's coming. This winter's heating bills are going to be stupendous, whether you burn oil, natural gas or kilowatts. If you're going to

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• Keeping closer tabs on mortgage brokers. Should your mortgage loan officer's fingerprints be on file in a national electronic database, even if he or she has never been convicted of a

• Housing bill passes Senate. The Senate yesterday approved a huge package of legislation aimed at stabilizing the nation's faltering housing market, including an ambitious plan to extend a financial

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• Foreclosure increased 53% since 2007 (Chinese). 【綜合報道】美國房市上月出現大蕭條以來最嚴峻的形勢。法拍通告件數較去年同期增加53%，每501間房屋便有1間斷供，銀行收回數量增幅創下近3倍紀錄，預計年底達100萬棟。「屋漏更逢連夜雨」，由政府支持的兩大房貸巨頭房利美和房地美因股價大跌，令資本日益緊絀，加劇房市危機惡化。 值得欣慰的是，政府的救市法案在參議院斬將過關，昨(10)日以84對12的表決結果，掃清一切程序障礙，預訂在今(11)日付諸投票通過。