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Mortgage fees climb to new high
Telegraph.co.uk
The average mortgage arrangement fee currently stands at £1,522, marking the highest figure recorded by Moneyfacts in 25 years. Moneyfacts editor Sylvia Waycot said: "It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of heavily marketed mortgages that shout ...
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Money MoT: Nationwide launches lowest ever fixed rate mortgage
Telegraph.co.uk
Home owners looking to remortgage, or first time buyers with a hefty deposit of at least 30pc will benefit from the lowest ever two, three and five year fixed rate mortgages. The new two year fixed rate mortgage for those with a deposit of 40pc or more ...
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Mortgage fraud rises for sixth successive year
FT Adviser
Mortgage fraud cases were highest amongst the 'suburban mindsets' group, which accounted for 15 per cent of 'first party' fraud cases. According to the report this group is made up of predominantly middle aged, middle and skilled working class individuals.
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Stately Detroit Homes Rot as Appraisals Stall Sales: Mortgages
San Francisco Chronicle
A broken mortgage system means that residents are missing out on some of the lowest borowing costs on record with the average rate for a 30-year fixed loan at 3.54 percent, according to Freddie Mac. Of the 578 mortgages for purchases last year in ...
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Are you average? This is what first-time home buyers look like in Canada
Globe and Mail
The average first-time home buyer in Canada is 29 years old and expects to be able to put down a down payment of $48,000 on a $300,000 home, according to a recent poll by the Bank of Montreal. But the study, released Tuesday, also found that price ...
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PIMCO flagship fund raises Treasury holdings, cuts mortgages
Reuters
The fund also decreased its mortgage holdings to 33 percent from 36 percent. Gross said on Twitter on Monday that investors should buy Treasuries because the BoJ's monthly purchases of over 7 trillion yen ($75 billion) of long-term government bonds, ...
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With mortgages, sometimes less is more
White Mountain Independent
When I bought my first house, lo, these many decades ago, George Bailey at the savings and loan - you didn't normally get a home loan from a bank back then - said I could spend 25 percent of my income on a 15-year mortgage payment. Twenty years was ...
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Mortgage fraud attempts up 9% in 2012
Money Marketing
The rate of detected mortgage fraud rose for the sixth consecutive year in 2012, according to Experian. Experian's fraud index for 2012 shows mortgage fraud rose by 9 per cent in 2012 – up from 35 to 38 in every 10,000 applications. The number of ...
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The dodgy CVs that borrowers use to get mortgages
Telegraph.co.uk
Most of the dishonest attempts to get a mortgage were made by "non-professional" fraudsters making "exaggerated claims over their income and personal finances", the company said. "Application fraud" edged up by 3pc across the financial services sector, ...
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SunTrust Mortgage Rates: Fixed Mortgages, ARMs and FHA Loan Rates for April ...
Eastern Morning Herald
SunTrust Mortgage Rates: Fixed Mortgages, ARMs and FHA Loan Rates for April 9, SunTrust Bank is a subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI), which is one of the major providers of financial services in the country. The bank has several mortgage...
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Eastern Morning Herald
Mortgage fees climb to 25-year high
moneyfacts.co.uk
Despite a large number of mortgage lenders driving their rates down to record lows over recent months, arrangement and booking fees have been steadily rising. During the first three months of this year, fees have risen by £112, with average fees in the ...
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Mortgage arrears rates rise slightly in final quarter of 2012: Fitch
Property Observer
There was a small increase in the number of home loan borrowers more than one month behind in their mortgage repayments in the final quarter of 2012, according to the latest Fitch Dinkum Index. The index monitors underlying Australian residential ...
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First time buyer average age is now 37
Mortgage Introducer
Money Supermarket analysis revealed the number of overall mortgage products available to first time buyers is currently 1,565 - up 17% on this time last year, while the average rate on first time buyer mortgages has dropped 0.59% year-on-year. However ...
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Mortgage Introducer
AMI concern over FCA fee proposals
Money Marketing
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned large mortgage brokerages will see their regulatory costs and levies rise by 50 per cent in 2013/14 after the Financial Conduct Authority published its regulatory fees and levies consultation. The ...
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First time buyer mortgages rise as number of homes reaches three-year high
FirstRungNow
The number of homes sold in the east of England has reached a three-year high, according to a recent RICS housing survey, encouraging a boost in the rate of first time buyer mortgages taken out. The report revealed that, on average, 18 homes had been ...
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NY AG responds to bank's motion to dismiss RMBS suit
Legal News Line
In October, Schneiderman, in his role as co-chair of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, sued JPMorgan Securities LLC — formerly known as Bear Stearns and Co. Inc. — JPMorgan Chase Bank NA and EMC Mortgage LLC.
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Consumer groups accuse BoI of 'dirty tricks' over tracker mortgages
Irish Examiner
According to the Irish Independent, Pollsters Red C have carried out research on behalf of the bank to see what might encourage tracker mortgage holders to move off their product which has a very favourable interest rate. It is estimated that Bank of ...
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Reverse mortgages to be discussed at program
Hickory Daily Record
HICKORY, N.C. — A program on reverse mortgages will be presented at 2 p.m. Monday, April 15, at West Hickory Senior Center. A reverse mortgage is a program that allows homeowners 62 and older to use their home equity while maintaining ownership ...
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Taiwan soon to take applications for reverse mortgage trial run
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, April 9 (CNA) Taiwan will begin to accept applications for reverse mortgages before the end of April as the next step in a pilot program to introduce the financing tool in the country, the Ministry of the Interior said Tuesday. After announcing ...
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HARP Refinancing Remains Strong
MortgageLoan.com
Nearly 100,000 mortgages were refinanced through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) in January, more than one-fifth of all home loans refinanced during the month as demand for the program remains strong. Underwater mortgages accounted ...
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Sesame teams up with Shawbrook commercial
Mortgage Introducer
John Cupis, managing director, mortgages at Sesame Bankhall Group, said: "At Sesame Bankhall Specialist Lending Services we are continually updating our panel of specialist lenders in order to help advisers place a wide variety of mortgage cases to ...
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Mortgage Introducer
Brokers hit back at Coventry's NI withdrawal
Mortgage Introducer
In a statement the Coventry said: "Coventry Building Society can confirm that it will no longer offer new mortgages to borrowers in Northern Ireland from 4th April due to a decline in business volumes." However brokers dismissed the Coventry's claims ...
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Refinancing Fair Draws Crowds to Hyattsville
Patch.com
31, the program was designed by the Obama administration to help borrowers behind on their mortgages. Many borrowers have not been able to refinance to today's historically low interest rates. "There are nearly 80,000 borrowers in Maryland that may be ...
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PHH Mortgage Mortgage Rates Unchanged Today
Eagle's Rant
PHH Mortgage Mortgage Rates Unchanged Today Standard 30 year fixed rate mortgages are being offered for 3.500% at PHH Mortgage and APR of 3.672% today. Shorter term, popular 15 year FRM interest rates have been listed at 2.750% today and an ...
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Eagle's Rant
Just Retirement reports 6pc rise in equity release
Mortgage Introducer
Just Retirement reports 6pc rise in equity release. Equity release mortgage provider Just Retirement has announced a 44% increase in group sales to £946.6m over the six months ended 31 December 2012.
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Mortgage Introducer
Analyst: Subprime mortgages are back and dangerous
Housing Wire
Subprime mortgages led to the demise of the housing market in 2008, but one blogger suggests the dangerous subprime mortgage market is back again. Jack Guttentag posted a blog on Inman News saying subprime mortgages consist of: expensive ...
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Taiwan Prepares Reverse Mortgage Rollout, Excludes Borrowers With Heirs
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Taiwan will begin accepting applications for reverse mortgages before this month ends, reports Focus Taiwan, the latest in the pilot program's national rollout. After announcing the pilot program on March 1, Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior held a ...
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Wells Fargo's Earnings: Will The Mortgage Machine Keep Humming?
Forbes
The bank is also focused on the mortgage business which witnessed a refinancing boom over the last two years. The resulting reduction in net-interest margin and mortgage origination figures were already witnessed in the results for Q4 2012, and these ...
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Mortgage fees hit 25 year high
Mortgage Solutions
According to data from Moneyfacts.co.uk, mortgage arrangement fees have already risen by £112 this year, increasing from an average of £1,410 in January to £1,522 by this April. In January a two-year fixed rate mortgage up to 90% loan to value (LTV ...
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Mortgage fees 'soar to new high'
expressandstar.com
Across all mortgages currently on the market, the typical fee being charged has risen by £112 since the start of 2013 to reach £1,522, marking the highest average figure recorded by Moneyfacts.co.uk in 25 years. A borrower with a 10% deposit who is ...
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Wells Fargo Sells Servicing on Fannie Mae Loans to Walter
Businessweek
Wells Fargo was ranked as the largest U.S. residential mortgage servicer at the end of December, with contracts on $1.87 trillion in unpaid home loans. The bank said in 2011 that it would stop originating reverse mortgages. Today's transaction won't ...
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Charlie Weston on tracker mortgages
Irish Independent
Charlie Weston on tracker mortgages. Comments. Email; Print; Font Size. 09 April 2013. Download our Free iPhone App Now · Download our Free Android App Now. Comments. Email; Print; Font Size ...
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Hot demand for 95% mortgages at Scholars Court
Easier (press release)
Eager property-seekers have been taking their chance to snap up stunning homes under the NewBuy initiative at Scholars Court, Taylor Wimpey's sought-after development in Anerley. The Government-backed scheme offers credit-worthy purchasers a ...
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OCC and Federal Reserve Announce Payments Covered by Foreclosure ...
LoanSafe
The agreement, which was reached earlier this year, provides $3.6 billion in cash payments to borrowers whose homes were in any stage of the foreclosure process in 2009 or 2010 and whose mortgages were serviced by one of the following companies, ...
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Current Mortgage Rates for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Mortgage Rates & Trends (blog)
Mortgage rates worsened yesterday as mortgage backed securities sold off in what was most likely a bout of profit-taking following a week-long rally. There were a series of short term Treasury auctions yesterday (and more TY auctions today and tomorrow ...
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Mortgage Rates & Trends (blog)
Grand plan looks in danger of sinking before it's launched
Irish Independent
First, two of the six banks told by the Government and Central Bank to meet targets on long-term restructuring of troubled mortgages do not offer the product – Ulster Bank and KBC Bank. Second, only 52 split mortgages were in place by the end of December.
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RICS:Best quarter for house sales in 3 years
Mortgage Introducer
The RICS survey broadly tallies with those from mortgage lenders Halifax and Nationwide which both reported that house prices in March were around 1% higher than a year earlier. Andy Knee, chief executive of LMS, said: "The latest figures from RICS ...
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Mortgage Introducer
US banks this week begin sending checks to 4.2M who lost homes to foreclosure
The Republic
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest banks will begin sending payments this week to millions of Americans who may have been wrongfully foreclosed on during the housing crisis. A total of $3.6 billion in cash will be distributed to 4.2 million borrowers ...
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Petition to Audit the Land Record
Huffington Post
MERS was purportedly and partially the brain child of Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide and is essentially a scheme that allows banks and servicers to evade fees normally associated with registering mortgages at local county registries of deeds. As Matt ...
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Blogs1 new result for Mortgages
 
Nationwide reduces rates by 0.10 per cent | #1 Mortgage Magazine ...
By Rebekah Commane
From Wednesday 10 April 2013, Nationwide is reducing all of its rates at 60 and 70 per cent loan to value (LTV) by 0.10 percentage points. These reductions mean Nationwide is now offering its lowest ever fixed rate mortgages.
#1 Mortgage Magazine | Compare...

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HARP | Chase Mortgage
HARP. The Home Affordable Refinance Program, also known as HARP, can help you lower your payments or change to a more stable loan type. A HARP loan ...
https://www.chase.com/mortgage/harp-refinance
Flawed appraisals put mortgages out of reach for buyers in best ...
In most American cities, a limestone home with a large front turret and paneled library would have a waiting list of buyers at $135000. In Detroit's Rosedale ...
www.crainsdetroit.com/.../flawed-appraisals-put-mortgages-ou...
More help for Illinoisans struggling with mortgages
SPRINGFIELD — Illinoisans struggling to make mortgage payments because their income recently dropped now may find it easier to qualify for a government ...
www.pantagraph.com/.../article_a818e820-a075-11e2-9b0e-0...
Strategies Shared For Building Purchase-Mortgages | Sioux Empire ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D.-Credit unions are not doing enough to generate more purchase-mortgage dollars going forward, according to David Bednar. Bednar is chief ...
https://www.siouxempirefcu.org/strategies-shared-for-building...
Will the Market see a Influx of Reverse Mortgages? | MortgageDocs ...
Photo credit: www.allrmc.com With interest rates at the lowest they've been in decades the time is optimal for older Americans with equity in their homes.
mortgagedocs.com/will-the-market-see-a-influx-of-reverse-mo...


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