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Mortgage rates lowest in decades

The lowest mortgage rates in decades may be the shot in the arm the housing market needs to regain a stable foundation.

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Mortgage Brokers Get Criminal Checks With New U.S. Rules to Cut Loan Fraud

California mortgage brokers face closer scrutiny as the state adopts a federal law aimed at curbing the fraud and abuse that helped decimate the housing market.

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Mortgage rates sink; slight effect expected

NEW YORK — Mortgage rates fell for the second straight week to the lowest point in five decades. But many people either don’t qualify for new mortgages or have already taken advantage of the low rates this year. As a result, the housing market and the broader economy may not benefit much from the lower rates.

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Radian CFO: Mortgage insurance industry improving

Mortgage insurance industry conditions are starting improve as the housing market and broader economy stabilize, the chief financial officer of Radian Group Inc. said Tuesday.

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Egypt’s Mortgage Lending May Nearly Double By 2011 (Update1)

June 15 (Bloomberg) — Egypt’s mortgage lending may increase to 8 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.4 billion) by the end of June next year, Mostafa El Hayawan, chairman of the state-run Mortgage Finance Fund, said.

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F.B.I. Readies for Mortgage Fraud Clampdown

Mortgage fraudsters beware. The F.B.I. is gearing up for a nationwide clampdown in a new effort to slow the kind of lending practices that led to the housing crash of 2008, The Financial Times reported .

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Mortgage lending slows as housing market stalls

Mortgage lending rose at its slowest pace for nine years in April, as the housing market failed to ignite for the traditional spring selling season.

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Guilty plea, indictments in Sacramento mortgage fraud cases

Federal officials in Sacramento announced a guilty plea and new indictments Friday in three mortgage-fraud cases in Northern California, which has become akin to the Wild West in terms of the numbers and size of fraud cases related to the housing market meltdown.

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Mortgage rates dip to 5.12 percent from 5.21 percent

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate nationally fell to 5.12 percent last week from 5.21, with 15-year fixed mortgages sliding to 4.49 percent, Bankrate reported today.

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Mortgage rates steady as tax credit fades

For the first time in two years, the housing market will have to do without aggressive federal incentives. But so far, mortgage rates have remained low.

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