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Non-Profit Working to Help Unemployed Western Massachusetts Homeowners Access $5 Million Through Federal Relief Program

Cambridge Credit Counseling processing Emergency Home Loan Program applications until July 22, 2011. July 07, 2011 The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act provided $1 billion to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program, which is designed to assist homeowners who’ve experienced a …

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Non-Profit Working to Help Unemployed Western Massachusetts Homeowners Access $5 Million Through Federal Relief Program

Southeast Mortgage Hires Isaac Berry as Senior Mortgage Loan Originator

ATLANTA, July 5, 2011 – Southeast Mortgage, a full service Georgia mortgage lender and one of the largest non-bank lenders in the Southeast, has announced industry veteran Isaac Berry has joined the organization as senior mortgage loan originator and future branch manager.

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Southeast Mortgage Hires Isaac Berry as Senior Mortgage Loan Originator

Mortgage rates trending higher

Mortgage rates moved higher this week after spending a month within a hair or two of 4.5%, the latest surveys showed. The 30-year fixed-rate loan was at 4.6% in the closely watched Freddie Mac tally, up from 4.51% a week…

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Borrower blasts bungling mortgage servicer

Stuck with a new mortgage servicer? Get used to it if you can’t pay off your home loan.

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Bank sued over home loan modifications

It seemed Maria Campusano’s financial problems were behind her when the mortgage on her Victorian home in a Massachusetts mill town was chopped by hundreds of dollars a month. She soon learned that her troubles had just begun.

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Bank sued over home loan modifications

How To Get A Mortgage With So-So Credit

Getting a mortgage can be tough these days — even people with near-perfect credit have been rejected for loans. But for some lucky borrowers, things aren’t as bad as the doom-and-gloom crowd says.

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Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps

It seemed Maria Campusano’s financial problems were behind her when the mortgage on her Victorian home in a Massachusetts mill town was chopped by hundreds of dollars a month.

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Borrowers sue over apparent loan mod mishaps

Secrets to getting a mortgage with so-so credit

Getting a mortgage can be tough these days — even people with near-perfect credit have been rejected for loans. But for some lucky borrowers, things aren’t as bad as the doom-and-gloom crowd says.

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Secrets to getting a mortgage with so-so credit

Mortgage loans on slide

Measures to curb the booming property market are having an effect as data showed mortgage loan applications in the first half of the year fell by 20.2 percent from the second half of 2010.

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Conforming loan limit drop would raise costs

More than 30,000 California families will face higher down payments, higher mortgage rates and stricter loan qualification requirements if conforming loan limits on mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are reduced beginning Oct. 1, according to analysis by the California Association of Realtors.

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Conforming loan limit drop would raise costs