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Spanish mortgage defaulters face debt nightmare

Inma Rodriguez lost her job, and now that she’s defaulted on her mortgage, she’s about to lose her home.

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Spanish mortgage defaulters face debt nightmare

TexasLending.com to Discuss Rising Home Loan Rates on KLIF AM Radio

Listen to CEO of TexasLending.com, Kevin Miller, and his co-hosts, discuss the rising home loan rate environment on his weekend radio show.Dallas, TX July 08, 2011 Kevin Miller of TexasLending.com, a Texas home loan and mortgage company specializing in Texas refinance loans and Texas reverse mortgages, will be discussing the rising home loan rate environment on his weekend radio show. In …

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South Florida seniors targeted in mortgage fraud, officials say

Three South Florida mortgage loan officers and a Pennsylvania title agent face federal criminal charges in connection with an elaborate $2.5 million reverse mortgage scheme, the first case of its kind to be prosecuted in federal Southern District Court, officials said Wednesday.

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BancorpSouth and Federal Home Loan Bank Provide $175,000 Grant for Affordable Housing

BancorpSouth Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BancorpSouth, Inc. , a $13.5 billion-asset financial holding company, recently joined with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas to provide a $175,000 Affordable Housing Program grant to the Neighborhood Development Corporation in Tupelo to provide low-income, first-time homebuyers with down payment and closing costs assistance.

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BancorpSouth and Federal Home Loan Bank Provide $175,000 Grant for Affordable Housing

Primary Prosecutors of Mortgage Fraud? Pension Funds And Plaintiffs’ Lawyers

Just when you think you’re caught up on all the troubles Bank of America is having with mortgage-related fraud, there’s another story. A group of bondholders calling themselves Walnut Place challenged the bank’s most recent settlement with bondholders for $8.5 billion.Susan Kapner in The Financial Times, July  5, 2011:“…The Walnut Place investors said that as many as two-thirds of the loans in …

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Primary Prosecutors of Mortgage Fraud? Pension Funds And Plaintiffs’ Lawyers

LendingTree Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse Reports Slight Increase in Rates

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Average mortgage rates rose slightly this week according to the LendingTree Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse, which tracks the lowest and average mortgage rates offered by lenders on the LendingTree network. On July 5, average home loan rates offered by LendingTree …

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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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Top three-year fixed home loan rates

Top three-year fixed home loan rates, as at July 5.

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Top three-year fixed home loan rates

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

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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