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5 Admit Guilty While 1 Still in Trial for $1.5 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
LoanSafe
( Source: US Justice Department) ? Five individuals have pled guilty to conspiring together to secure more than $1.5 million in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a home in Gainesville, Va. A federal grand jury has also indicted an individual for his ...

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Five Plead Guilty and One Man Indicted in $1.5 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
ALEXANDRIA, VA?Five individuals have pled guilty to conspiring together to secure more than $1.5 million in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a home in Gainesville, Virginia. A federal grand jury has also indicted an individual for his alleged role in ...

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Monarch Bank is Now Open in Suffolk
Citybizlist (press release)
Monarch Mortgage and our affiliated mortgage companies have over twenty offices with locations in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and South Carolina. Our subsidiaries/ divisions include Monarch Bank, OBX Bank, Monarch Mortgage (secondary mortgage ...

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Five Plead Guilty in Gainesville Mortgage Fraud Scheme
FairfaxNews.com
... in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a home in Gainesville. A federal grand jury has also indicted an individual for his alleged role in the real estate transaction. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, ...

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Monarch Bank is Now Open in Suffolk
NASDAQ
Monarch Mortgage and our affiliated mortgage companies have over twenty offices with locations in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and South Carolina. Our subsidiaries/ divisions include Monarch Bank, OBX Bank, Monarch Mortgage (secondary mortgage ...

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Monarch Bank is Now Open in Suffolk
GlobeNewsWire (press release)
Monarch Mortgage and our affiliated mortgage companies have over twenty offices with locations in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and South Carolina. Our subsidiaries/ divisions include Monarch Bank, OBX Bank, Monarch Mortgage (secondary mortgage ...

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Monarch Bank is Now Open in Suffolk
MarketWatch (press release)
Monarch Mortgage and our affiliated mortgage companies have over twenty offices with locations in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and South Carolina. Our subsidiaries/ divisions include Monarch Bank, OBX Bank, Monarch Mortgage (secondary mortgage ...

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Eastern Morning Herald

Current Mortgage Rates: Bank of America, SunTrust and US Bank Home Purchase ...
Eastern Morning Herald
Mortgage rates in the United States have ended another stunning week, as fixed rate loans reached new record-lows, according to the latest report from Virginia-based mortgage company, Freddie Mac. The national average rate on both the 30-year and ...

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Misused funds
WatertownDailyTimes.com
Struggling homeowners in several states may see limited help from a highly touted national mortgage settlement as state lawmakers instead divert the money to other purposes. In February, the Obama administration and 49 states made national headlines ...

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Ryan Homes Announces the Grand Opening of The New Mozart Townhome Model at ...
Supply Chain Digital (press release)
MIDLOTHIAN, Va., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NVR, Inc. (NYSE: NVR), one of the nation's largest homebuilding and mortgage banking companies, announces the Grand Opening of the new Mozart townhome model at Springridge at Swift Creek in Midlothian, ...

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OSFI Official Defends its Mortgage Guidelines
Canadian Mortgage Trends
HELOC growth has ?contributed significantly to growing overall household debt?If (or when) housing prices drop, households would be vulnerable.? (Two fair questions would be: how many households and how vulnerable? We have anecdotal evidence, ...



My Refi's a HELOC. Anything Wrong With That?
Fox Business
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, and home equity loans are secured by the property. To the extent allowed by the tax code, based on the size and use of the loan proceeds, the interest expense is tax deductible. Home equity lines and loans used ...



Banks Not Immune to Housing-Related Failures: Corporate Canada
Bloomberg
HELOC Rules OSFI's guidelines suggest lenders limit home-equity lines of credit to 65 percent of the property's value. The regulator also recommends that HELOCs be paid off over a specific amortization period, like conventional mortgages.

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Dollars & Sense: What is HELOC?
KHON2
"A home equity line of credit - or HELOC - is basically a line of credit that's secured with a person's equity in their home," explains Lance Oribio of Central Pacific Bank. There are several different versions of a HELOC.



A lien can hit your home-equity line
MarketWatch
In other words, the first lien holder may not know of the HELOC, and the HELOC lender won't know of a third or even a fourth lien. What's more, they usually don't care because if the first mortgage goes into foreclosure, lien holders are paid in the ...



Investors' remorse
Winnipeg Free Press
Five years ago, at the peak of the stock market, their financial adviser persuaded them to use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to borrow $140000 to invest in mostly equity mutual funds. "I should have retired last June, but because of this problem ...



Borrow From My Home Equity -- Just in Case?
Fox Business
A home equity loan is different from a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. I think you're actually asking about a HELOC. A line of credit can be a better financial backstop because with a line of credit, you don't have to borrow the full amount ...



Spring Mortgage Market Update (2012)
Move Smartly
The consensus view is that this change unfairly punishes the many borrowers who use their HELOCs responsibly in order to protect our financial system from the minority of HELOC borrowers who do not. We simply cannot ignore the fact that HELOCs were the ...

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Members of Bank Fraud Ring Sentenced in $3.7 Million Scam
Mortgage Daily
ATLANTA?After three days of hearings, United States District Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. today concluded the sentencings of six co-conspirators involved in a $3.7 million dollar bank fraud ring involving home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

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Canadian Regulators Taking Closer Look At HELOCs
Wall Street Journal
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, have soared in recent years, even after similar lending helped fuel the ill-fated US housing market bubble. Canada's largest banks--which have generally won praise for conservative lending that protected them ...


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Fitch Rates McLaren Health Care (MI) Series 2012A Bonds 'AA-'; Outlook Stable
MarketWatch (press release)
Bond proceeds will be used to refund McLaren's series 1998A bonds and the series 1998, 2003 and 2006 bonds issued on behalf of Northern Michigan Regional Hospital, refinance draws on certain lines of credit, refinance a mortgage and pay costs of ...

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Michigan Court of Appeals broadens scope of Michigan's non-judicial ...
Lexology (registration)
Distinguishing Leslie, the Michigan Court of Appeals found that the language used in the loan documents prevented the guaranty indebtedness from being construed as an obligation separate from the mortgage debt. Specifically, the mortgage defined the ...



International Business Times

US Mortgage Rates Hit Record Low For 3rd Straight Week: Freddie Mac
International Business Times
By Roland Li: Subscribe to Roland's RSS feed US 30-year fixed-rate mortgages hit a record low for the third straight week as concerns over the euro zone weighed on the economy, mortgage financier Freddie Mac said Thursday. The average 30-year mortgage ...

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eCreditDaily.com

Mortgage Rates Hit New Lows Again; 30-Year at 3.79%
eCreditDaily.com
Consumer sentiment in May rose to its highest reading since January 2008, according to the University of Michigan. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.79 percent, with an average 0.7 point, for the week ending May 17, 2012, down from last week when ...

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Banks turn to "short sales" in Michigan as home foreclosure rates continue to ...
Michigan Radio
A short sale is where a mortgage lender allows a property to be sold for less than the amount owed on a mortgage and takes a loss. ?Based on other data we're looking at that's a trend that's going to continue this year. Short sales are going to become ...

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Michigan Justice Diane Hathaway's short sale
Point of Law
Hathaway persuaded a bank to permit her a short sale of a Florida vacation home that saved her hundreds of thousands of dollars from a mortgage made at the peak of the market, but the ABC affiliate finds suspicious transfers of other real estate from ...

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Ellis: Force mortgage firms to shape up
Lansing State Journal
Congratulations, Michigan, on receiving $97 million in settlement money form five mortgage companies. I am glad that state Attorney General Bill Schuette finally got on board and applied to be part of this national settlement.

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Mortgage Builder Acquires GCC Servicing Systems
CUinsight.com (press release)
Southfield, MI, May 15, 2012 ? Mortgage Builder, an award-winning loan origination software (LOS) provider, announces an agreement to acquire GCC Servicing Systems, a leading loan servicing software provider that shares 35 years of history with its new ...

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With Mortgage Rates Low, Consumer Sentiment Hits 4-Year High
The Mortgage Reports
The Thompson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary sentiment index for May climbed to 77.8%, its highest point since January 2008. May's figures represent a 1.4% increase over April and the ninth consecutive month that the index has risen.

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Consumers upbeat and mortgage applications rise
WRAL.com (blog)
The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Report came in at a four-year high reading Friday, indicating that consumers are becoming more bullish on the job front. The reading for May came in at 77.8 which was up from a 76.4 reading in April.

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Foreclosure drop seen nationwide
Columbia Daily Tribune
National mortgage-foreclosure activity in April decreased 5 percent from March and was down 14 percent from April 2011, according to a report by RealtyTrac released yesterday. One in every 698 US housing units had a foreclosure filing during the month.

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Sun-Sentinel (blog)

Terrell Owens facing foreclosure on South Florida condo
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
By Paul Owers May 18, 2012 02:19 PM Deutsche Bank is going after the temperamental wide receiver, saying he isn't paying the $1.4 million mortgage on his Trump International Beach Resort condo in Sunny Isles Beach, reports Gossipextra.com.

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MGIC Loosens Restricted Markets Requirements
Mortgage Daily
By MortgageDaily.com staff Credit and debt-to-income ratio requirements have been eased in the country's most struggling real estate markets by Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. The move is a result of market improvement. Current guidelines require a ...



Florida's Realtors advocate for homeownership in nation's capital
Destin Log
Realtors from Florida and across the US ? more than 10000 strong ?gathered at the Washington Monument in the nation's capital today to highlight the importance of housing and homeownership to the nation's economic recovery. The ?Rally to Protect the ...

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TexasLending.com Discusses Lowest Mortgage Rates in History on Radio KLIF in ...
SBWire (press release)
TexasLending.com (NMLS # 137773) provides expert service in the field of residential mortgages. Headquartered in Dallas, TexasLending.com specializes in loans throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri and Colorado.

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AXcess News

Foreclosures down, short sales up. Are banks getting smart?
AXcess News
Homeowners get to shed their mortgage debt faster - and with less damage to their credit rating. Short sales began outpacing foreclosures in some states late last year. Six states saw more preforeclosure sales - typically, short sales - than ...

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New sales associate at Champion Realty
The Star Democrat
Owens has 30 years experience in the real estate industry in Maryland, Florida and North Carolina. She has worked with several national homebuilders and major mortgage bankers. Owens attended Chesapeake College and the University of North Florida, ...



Mortgage foreclosures dropping nationwide; good news for Maine
Bangor Daily News
National mortgage-foreclosure activity in April decreased 5 percent from March and was down 14 percent from April 2011, according to a report by RealtyTrac released Thursday. One in every 698 US housing units had a foreclosure filing during the month.

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County foreclosures lead state
The Desert Sun
A total of 3850 mortgage default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions were recorded countywide in April, translating to 1 in 208 households in some stage of foreclosure, according to Irvine-based RealtyTrac. The number of filings was 12 ...

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Fewer US homes foreclosed on in April
HeraldNet
But state-level data point to potentially more home repossessions ahead in Florida and many of the 25 other states where courts are required to sign off on foreclosures. All told, the number of US homes taken back by lenders in April declined 7 percent ...

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