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A question of money: How to get the right mortgage provider for you? (Belfast Telegraph)

Question: My daughter and son-in-law are having difficulty in finding a mortgage provider. They are buying two plots of land on which they intend to build a home. Related Stories Consumer complaints rising but are we being listened to?

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A question of money: How to get the right mortgage provider for you? (Belfast Telegraph)

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Mortgage approvals fall in January (ShareCast)

LONDON (SHARECAST) - There was mixed data on the mortgage lending front Monday, with the number of loan approvals for house purchases in January falling from December, but the total amount of lending rising.

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Patience, education helps win mortgage (The Desert Sun)

La Quinta High School teacher Lauren Young didn’t allow her friends’ horror stories about the home mortgage process to deter her from finding and purchasing an affordable fixer-upper in La Quinta.

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Patience, education helps win mortgage (The Desert Sun)

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Roger Lowenstein: The Case For Walking Away From Your Mortgage (The Huffington Post)

What’s Your Reaction? John Courson, president and C.E.O.

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Roger Lowenstein: The Case For Walking Away From Your Mortgage (The Huffington Post)

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Reverse mortgage requires caution (The Columbus Dispatch)

If you, your relatives or your friends are applying for a reverse mortgage in 2010, check out the new guidelines proposed this month by the federal regulatory agencies for financial institutions.

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Reverse mortgage requires caution (The Columbus Dispatch)

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Demands for mortgage escrow pay are limited (Poughkeepsie Journal)

Dear Benny — I own a house worth about $400,000. The current mortgage is $25,000. A Florida company took over the mortgage six months ago.

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Demands for mortgage escrow pay are limited (Poughkeepsie Journal)

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Mortgage rates inch above 5 percent (Poughkeepsie Journal)

McLEAN, Va. — The average fixed-rate for a 30-year mortgage climbed above 5 percent for the first time in two months, leading to a decline in mortgage applications.

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Despite record-low mortgage rates, many can’t refinance (The Herald News)

Ron Cowgill, 46, who does home remodeling, has wanted to refinance out of a 7.75 percent mortgage interest rate, but he can’t.Cowgill and his wife, Diane, a teacher’s aide in Glenview, have a $3,700 monthly mortgage payment now. They’ve never been late on a payment since they bought the house in 1991, he says, and they both have credit scores in the 700s.So why can’t they take advantage of the …

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Despite record-low mortgage rates, many can’t refinance (The Herald News)

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Don’t take federal mortgage relief if you don’t need it (Washington Post)

Q: My family and others in our neighborhood now owe more on our mortgages than our homes are worth.

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Don’t take federal mortgage relief if you don’t need it (Washington Post)