Latest News and Stories

Entries for March 2008

04
Texas investors: Consider pre-pay options carefully

Instead of the standard one-payment-per-month schedule, some companies specializing in accelerated payoff programs solicit mortgage brokers with a custom option for their loan customers. The mortgage broker is offered an incentive, typically $300, to sell the program to his customers.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
04
Is Your Credit Score as High as You Think?

It is common to assume that paying bills on time automatically means having a high credit score. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. There are many misperceptions about how scores are calculated -- and yours could be lower than you might expect.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
03
Inflating Home Prices with Cash Back at Closing

In many housing markets across the country, property values are declining. In terms of the overall market, this is not necessarily a bad thing. It means the laws of supply and demand are at work. It makes housing more affordable, especially for first-time buyers. It may even result in a drop in property taxes, giving homeowners a much-needed tax break.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
03
New Homes: All That Glitters Can Be Gold

With the housing crisis in full bloom, sometimes it's good to take comfort in ways builders and architects are defying the odds -- such as taking a 1930s Los Angeles theater district art-deco high rise building and turning it into loft condominiums.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |
01
 First-time buyers looking abroad for property

British first-time buyers are increasingly looking to overseas property for their first home, according to trade magazine BuyAssociation. With prices rising in the UK market, property has become an unrealistic aspiration for some younger buyers, and this, coupled to falling affordability, has created an interest in buying abroad.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Other News

London Transport and Virgin Media have named first 80 busiest and major underground stations in London which are all set to receive Wi-Fi services for the Olympics season. Destinations including London Bridge, Oxford Circus, Leicester Square, Mile End, Tower Hill, Tufnell Park, Goodge Street, King’s Cross, Oval, Borough and Victoria are on the list to turn into accessible Wi-Fi hotspots.

The UK economy shrank for the last three months of 2011 - BCC predicts that growth will be flat this year , with one quarter of contraction, but says a full-blown recession is not inevitable if the government acts. It showed that in October, the service sector contracted by (a revised) 0.6%, while in November it grew by 0.6%.

Peacocks chief executive expected to lodge rescue offer for stricken fashion chain, while Past Times is closing 46 stores with the loss of 574 jobs. Peacock employs more than 400 at its Cardiff HQ and nearly 10,000 more across the UK.

Halifax index also shows a 0.9% decline in December 2011 and predicts a broadly stable 2012 … providing the UK can avoid the recession. The price of the average house in the UK is now just over £160,000, said the bank, thanks to a 0.9% fall in prices in December 2011 and a 1.3% drop over the whole of the year.

Europe’s worst financial crisis in generations is forging a new European Union, pushing Britain to the sidelines and creating a more integrated, fiscally disciplined core of nations under the auspices of a resurgent Germany.

Services
blog

Blogs

instagram

Instagram

facebook

Facebook