Mortgage lenders are getting in on the incentive game home builders started playing a year ago as the recession eats away at the already ailing housing market. Home builders were offering new cars, vacations and flat-screen TVs to get buyers into …
HARTFORD — Troubled Connecticut homeowners would be required to seek mediation services to keep their homes out of foreclosure under legislation signed into law this week by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Rell said Friday that the mandatory mediation …
The National Rice Policy Committee has agreed to resume the mortgage scheme for second-crop paddy, says Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai. The committee, chaired by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, yesterday agreed to resume the rice mortgage …
What are the odds of winning in a ravaged industry like mortgage lending, especially when you name your fledgling company after one of the biggest lenders to melt down in the Southeast? For longtime banker and avid thoroughbred racehorse owner Jerry …
HARTFORD — Troubled Connecticut homeowners would be required to seek mediation services to keep their homes out of foreclosure under legislation signed into law this week by Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Rell said Friday that the mandatory mediation …
CAMPAIGNERS have called on chief City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to name and shame banks that hit struggling mortgage borrowers with huge fines for missing repayments. Consumer group Which? said the FSA should publish details of …
In the battle to stem foreclosures, two left-leaning policymakers have formed an unlikely alliance with mortgage investors. In a letter sent Friday afternoon to regulators including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Deposit Insurance Head …
A Fort Washington man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for his involvement in a $35 million scheme to cheat homeowners facing foreclosure. A federal judge on Friday sentenced 39-year-old Kurt Fordham for conspiracy to commit mail and wire …
New Zealand’s third-biggest bank, Westpac, has signalled that it is willing to lend to home-buyers with less than a 20 per cent deposit – but at a cost. The bank started an advertising campaign this week offering to lend more than 80 per cent of the …
GREENBELT, Md. – A Fort Washington man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for his involvement in a $35 million scheme to cheat homeowners facing foreclosure. A federal judge on Friday sentenced 39-year-old Kurt Fordham for conspiracy to commit …
