Home equity

CHICAGO - Corruption charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich focus on much more than the claim that he tried to sell or trade Barack Obama 's U.S. Senate seat. That charge is the cream. But the meat and potatoes are buried deep within a 76-page ...

Blagojevich case goes beyond alleged Senate seat sale - Newsday

Dear Liz: In April 2008, we opened a home equity line of credit in preparation for a kitchen remodel. At the time, we were allowed to borrow up to 80% of our home's value. Last month the limit on the credit line was sharply reduced. Even if our home ...

Maybe you don't need that bigger home equity line - Los Angeles Times

Beginning Jan. 1, home buyers 62 and older will be able to buy a house using a reverse mortgage, as long as it's their primary residence. Traditionally, people obtained reverse mortgages to take equity out of their existing homes to help them meet ...

Senior Home Buyers Allowed To Use Reverse Mortgage - Hartford Courant

Sunday Buzz WaMu was all over this bad investment move A Florida teacher files an arbitration claim against WaMu after he was persuaded by a WaMu Investments stockbroker to take $150,000 from a WaMu home-equity line of credit and invest it in WaMu ...

WaMu was all over this bad investment move - Seattle Times

WASHINGTON - With mortgage rates sinking to the lowest level since the early 1960s, homeowners around the country are giving themselves an early holiday present: a refinanced mortgage with lower monthly payments. Should you be doing the same? That ...

Refinancing home may cut costs - Billings Gazette

Las Vegas, once the darling of the nation's housing boom, is feeling unloved for the holidays. Median home prices have dropped 30 percent in the past year, foreclosures have doubled and the inventory of homes for sale in the valley is hovering around ...

Experts say it's plain: Housing pain to remain Observer says fate of ... - Las Vegas Review Journal

Austin, TX (PRWEB) December 14, 2008 -- On December 4, 2008, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that the private sector provide for 'home equity insurance' to help protect individual homeowners against market declines. EquityLock ...

Ben Bernanke's 'Home Equity Insurance' Available Through EquityLock ... - Charleston Daily Mail

Now that the economic downturn is officially a recession, can we go back to the subprime mortgage crisis that started it all and ask the obvious question: Shouldn’t all those high-risk loans gone bad have been covered by private mortgage insurance ...

Hey, weren’t those mortgages supposed to - Duluth News Tribune

Steven J. Kameika, 49, of Germantown, a mortgage banker who became a teacher and then returned to the world of business, died of anaplastic thyroid cancer Dec. 13 at home. Mr. Kameika, the father of two girls adopted from war-torn Sierra Leone ...

Shouldered the needs of children in distress - Philadelphia Inquirer

Short-sale seminar: 6-7 p.m. Thursdays at Remerica Hometown One, 50429 Independence, Canton. Free. Call 734-395-8346. REVERSE MORTGAGES For homeowners 62 and older who want to tap into their home's equity, 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 30800 ...