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Mortgage Market Weekly : (August 13, 2009) Edition 111 In This Week's "Good News" : Home Purchase Activity Pointing toward Recovery Although rising interest rates contributed to a declining Mortgage Bankers Association Market Composite Index
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(Edition April 30, 2009) Vol. 97 In This Week's "Good News" : 2009 Refinance Numbers Show Homeowner Savings of at least 2.5b over the Coming Year According to Freddie Mac, refinance numbers for the first quarter of 2009, show that half of
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(Edition April 22, 2009) Vol. 96 In This Week's "Good News" : 97% Mortgage Financing is Back - Seller Can Contribute the 3% Yes, that is right. Some investors are allowing 97 percent financing again for the purpose of purchasing a home and
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(Edition April 15, 2009) Vol. 95 In This Week's "Good News" : Federal Reserve Continues to Buy Fannie/Freddie Debt - Good for Interest Rates The Federal Reserve continued its latest policy of purchasing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Federal
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(Edition April 8, 2009) Vol. 94 In This Week's "Good News": FNMA Releases New Refinance Program Up to 105% - Without Mortgage Insurance As part of the new "Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan" recently rolled out by the
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In This Week's "Good News": Home Prices and New Home Sales Up For January Although it is not overwhelmingly good news, it is a step in the right direction. According to FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency), U.S. home prices climbed 1.7
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Mortgage Market Weekly : (Edition March 18, 2009) Vol. 91 In This Week's "Good News": Mortgage Rates Dropping Significantly Just in (today) -- Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) are moving aggressively down in coupon after the FOMC (Federal
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Mortgage Market Weekly : (Edition March 11, 2009) Vol. 90 In This Week's "Good News": New Czar for Regulation of Financial Products? Tuesday of this week, Senator Richard Durbin was joined by lawmakers from both the Senate and the House,
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Mortgage Market Weekly : (Edition March 6, 2009) Vol. 89 In This Week's "Good News": Guidelines for "Making Home Affordable" Program Released The Treasury, this week, released the guidelines for its new "Making Home Affordable"
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Mortgage Market Weekly : (Edition March 1, 2009) Vol. 88 In This Week's "Good News": Update on the First-time Home Buyer Stimulus Although this is not necessarily good news, I deemed the topic so important that I put it at the front of the
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Hello all, Ken and I thought we would post these memos from the White House, regarding the 2009 Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. Hope the info is helpful- we will post more info as it becomes available. Holly Grigaitis-Svercl and Ken Svercl,
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Hello all, Ken and I thought we would post these memos from the White House, regarding the 2009 Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. Hope the info is helpful- we will post more info as it becomes available. Holly Grigaitis-Svercl and Ken Svercl,
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Hello all, Ken and I thought we would post these memos from the White House, regarding the 2009 Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. Hope the info is helpful- we will post more info as it becomes available. Holly Grigaitis-Svercl and Ken Svercl,
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Hello all, Ken and I thought we would post these memos from the White House, regarding the 2009 Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. Hope the info is helpful- we will post more info as it becomes available. Holly Grigaitis-Svercl and Ken Svercl,
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Mortgage Market Weekly : (Edition February 20, 2009) Vol. 87 In This Week's "Good News": First-time Home Buyer Stimulus As many of you may have heard, there is good news for first-time home buyers (those individuals who have not had ownership
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