Furman Real Estate News

Nov 9, 2009 | via WCNC-TV Charlotte 

A local construction company owner is now charged in a mortgage fraud scheme targeting expensive homes in Waxhaw.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Hampton County, SC

Sep 4, 2009 | via MSNBC 

A South Carolina politician, church deacon and NAACP treasurer is charged in a mortgage fraud scheme tied to Mecklenburg and Union Counties.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Housing, Hampton County, SC

Monday Dec 21 | via WJBF-TV Augusta 

South Carolina homeowners are in danger of losing their financial protection because state officials didn't apply for federal money that pays for free foreclosure counseling.

Related Topix: South Carolina, Foreclosures

Sunday Dec 20 | via WPDE 

South Carolina homeowners are in danger A of losing their financial protection because state officials didn't A apply for federal money that pays for free foreclosure counseling.

Related Topix: South Carolina, Foreclosures

Thursday Dec 10 | via GreenvilleOnline.com 

The foreclosure rate in the state and the county dropped last month, as the nation as a whole experienced its fourth straight month of declining activity.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, South Carolina, Greenville, SC, Greenville County, SC

Wednesday Dec 9 | via GreenvilleOnline.com 

Columbia-area home sales soared 69 percent in November compared with the same month last year, as buyers snapped up starter homes.

Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing, Real Estate, South Carolina

Tuesday Dec 8 | via Fortune 

Lounging in his giant conference room in an otherwise bland office suite near Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, Lewis Ranieri cultivates the image of a worldly philosopher.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, South Carolina

4 min ago | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

UNLESS you're Tiger Woods, 2009 has probably been a heck of a lot better than 2008.

Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Automakers, General Motors, Auto Dealers

4 min ago | via John A Keith Real Estate 

From Dina ElBoghdady at the Washington Post: Freddie sees mortgage rates hitting 6% in 2010 The average rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose to 5.05 percent this week and could climb to 6 percent by the end of 2010, if not sooner, according to giant mortgage financier Freddie Mac The key catalyst for interest rates going forward will be the ...

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

9 min ago | via KESQ-TV Palm Desert 

The government shouldn't reward liars. But that's the effect of changes to the Obama administration's failing program to help homeowners modify their mortgages.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

Wednesday Dec 23 | via The Independent 

For investors in the US stock market, the Noughties were worse than that. Even adding in dividends, the S&P 500, the broadest measure of US equities, is down about 1 per cent since the start of 2000, a terrible result given that inflation has reduced the value of those holdings further.

Related Topix: Financial Markets, Yale University, Home, Mortgage

16 min ago | via Home Channel News 

Sales of new single-family homes declined to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 355,000 in November, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Commerce Department.

Related Topix: Housing, Home Selling, Home