Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Real answers to real estate (Home Mortgage) questions


Real answers to real estate questions
Orange County Register - Read the transcript of the real estate round-table discussion in our real estate section . For homeowners in Orange County, it's been a great ride in the past few years, as local home prices recorded double-digit increases. But now what? Is it time

Where's hot and where's not for property investors in 2006?
999 Today - Stuart Law, managing director of property investment company Assetz, looks at the prospects for the global property market in 2006. Southern Cyprus "Southern Cyprus is set to become the overseas investment hotspot of 2006, with deposit levels falling

Regulators Urge Cut Back on Interest-Only Loans
Buffalo News - WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve and other bank regulators said interest-only and other nontraditional mortgages pose a threat to the financial system and urged the nation's banks to tighten lending standards. Banks are offering more so-called hybrid

Fed sees threat in interest-only loans
Denver Post - The unusual mortgages eventually may hurt the economy, say regulators, who want banks to tighten lending rules. By Will Edwards Bloomberg News The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that interest-only and other nontraditional mortgages threaten the