About 225 local employees at HSBC Mortgage Corp. are losing their jobs, as the lender shuts down wholesale and correspondent lending and shifts to direct lending to consumers instead of through brokers. The job cuts represent 20 percent of the 1,100 ...
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Dubai Islamic mortgage lender Amlak has suspended new loans, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as the global credit crunch hits the property sector in the Gulf's trading hub. "We are reviewing our existing credit policy to ensure optimum ...
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Mortgage rates are on the way down today, with two banks - Westpac and Kiwibank, cutting rates in anticipation of another Official Cash Rate cut. Kiwibank says it has today cut its variable home loan rate to 7.95 per cent - what is says is ...
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Exotic mortgages, as well as some lenders, are a thing of the past. But the need to borrow to buy a home is very much present. The lending landscape keeps changing fast, economists, mortgage brokers and lenders say, so homeowners and potential buyers ...
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I'm not exactly sure where I stand yet on the issue of solving the housing crisis by having bankruptcy judges modify loans, but I do know that the President-elect has spoken in favor of the proposal. I've heard a lot of arguments against, but today I ...
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There's an old saying, leave your worries at home, but these days people nationwide are hurting, struggling to pay their bills. Especially their mortgage. And all that stress can make it hard to focus at work. So a growing number of employers are ...
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Politicians often prefer complex solutions to simple problems. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the long list of complicated and convoluted proposals to address the country's foreclosure crisis. Millions of people face the loss of their homes ...
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