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Lender blames escrow shortage for $400 increase in monthly mortgage payment (Washington Post)

Q: We have owned our house for many years, and the lender has always escrowed money to pay our real estate taxes and insurance. This year, we received a notice from the lender that our monthly mortgage payment will increase by over $400 because there is an escrow shortage

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Lender blames escrow shortage for $400 increase in monthly mortgage payment (Washington Post)

Warning for mortgage holders who just refinanced (WTHR Indianapolis)

If you’ve recently refinanced a mortgage loan, the Indiana Department of Insurance wants you to make a follow-up call.

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Warning for mortgage holders who just refinanced (WTHR Indianapolis)

Firm starts mortgage reward scheme (Channel 4)

Property services group Countrywide has launched a new reward scheme for mortgage customers.

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Firm starts mortgage reward scheme (Channel 4)

FDIC Chairman Questions Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction (MalaysiaNews.net)

WASHINGTON–Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair came close to the third rail of tax policies Monday, citing the federal tax deduction for mortgage interest as one of the causes…

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FDIC Chairman Questions Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction (Fox News)

The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said mortgage interest is one of the problems for the nation’s banking crisis.

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Buying a home: know the difference between mortgage life insurance and individual life insurance (Purcell Register)

(ARA) - For many new homeowners, it can be very confusing to decide whether you should buy an individual insurance policy from a reputable life insurance company to protect your new home from the unexpected, or if you should purchase a mortgage insurance policy through your lender.

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Buying a home: know the difference between mortgage life insurance and individual life insurance (Purcell Register)

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-02 14:01 UPDATE 1-Radian names new COO for mortgage insurance unit (Interactive Investor)

March 2 (Reuters) - Radian Group Inc appointed former Bank of America executive Robert Griffith as chief operating officer of its mortgage insurance unit, Radian Guaranty Inc.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-03-02 14:01 UPDATE 1-Radian names new COO for mortgage insurance unit (Interactive Investor)

Cleaning up toxic mortgage assets a slow task (FT.com via Yahoo! News)

With $45bn of investments in securities backed by US mortgages - or nearly a quarter of the insurance group’s total assets - it is no overstatement to say that MetLife is a heavyweight in the mortgage market.

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S&P urges mortgage brokers to sell GI (Mortgage Introducer)

According to a poll by Alliance and Leicester, 41% of brokers said they would not expand offerings to include products other than mortgages. This is despite almost half of them being regulated to sell Insurance products in reaction to the declining mortgage market last year.

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Mortgage insurance won’t last forever (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Mortgage insurance premium payments will not hound a homeowner forever.

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Mortgage insurance won’t last forever (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)

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