Refinancing

Shahien Nasiripour

Mortgage Bankers Post Huge Profits... Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business


Independent mortgage lenders may have hit their high point of the year as they booked an average profit of nearly $1,400 on each loan originated durin...

Hustled

Libby Mitchell | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business


Libby Mitchell

Recently, my husband and I were taken for $465. Not by a guy named Lefty, or Madoff, but rather by a mortgage lender, who is probably your mortgage lender too: CitiMortgage.

Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Michelle Kraus

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


Only one lender of consequence remains: the federal government, which undertook one of its earliest and most dramatic rescues of the financial crisis ...

Mortgage Rates, Defaults Rise: Bernake's Plan Stumbles

bloomberg.com | Brian Louis and Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business


Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's efforts to bring down borrowing costs to revive the housing market and help the economy are stalling. Mortg...

Obama-Math Doesn't Add Up for Most Homeowners

Raphael Cushnir | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


Raphael Cushnir

If your "investor" is Fanny, as it turns out, good loan terms are available without huge sums due at closing. But if your investor is Freddy, you're currently out of luck.

Mortgage Applications Rise As Refinancing Jumps

Reuters | Julie Haviv | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mortgage applications jumped in the first full week of 2009 as record low interest rates spurred the greatest demand for home ref...

What Americans Can Do to Avoid a Depression

Dennis Paulaha | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics


Dennis Paulaha

Saving people's homes while increasing consumer spending and solving the financial industry's credit crunch will stimulate the economy.

KKR In Credit Crunch

New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Even the barbarians didn't think the credit crisis would last this long. A firm affiliated with leveraged buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.,...