Home sales may get a boost from the rising prices occurring in the rental market, which is making it cheaper to own rather than rent in a growing number of cities.
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For the first time in three weeks, fixed mortgages rate moved up from their all-time lows, Freddie Mac reports in its weekly mortgage market survey.
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Bank of America announced on Thursday that it will no longer sell some of its mortgages to Fannie Mae.
Effective this month, the nation’s second-largest bank says it will no longer permit mortgages for home purchases, as well as certain refinanced mortgages, to be packaged into Fannie Mae loan securitizations.
Effective this month, the nation’s second-largest bank says it will no longer permit mortgages for home purchases, as well as certain refinanced mortgages, to be packaged into Fannie Mae loan securitizations.
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The number of children living in high-poverty areas jumped 25 percent from 2000 to 2010, an alarming finding, according to a new study by the nonprofit group, the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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According to the National Association of REALTORS®’ quarterly commercial real estate forecast, all of the major commercial real estate sectors are seeing improved fundamentals, but multifamily housing is becoming a landlord’s market, commanding bigger rent increases. These trends also are confirmed in NAR’s recent quarterly Commercial Real Estate Market Survey.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its greenhouse gas (GHG) data report in the form of a new online tool — an interactive map that lets members of the public see what facilities are the largest suppliers of fossil fuels and highest direct emitters of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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