What challenges face housing markets in 2010?
Monday Dec 28 | via Daily Record
While housing markets remained volatile through 2009, a first-time home buyer tax credit, low mortgage rates and downward pressure on list prices combined to help convince some buyers that the time had come to purchase a home. Comment?
Multiple Federal Agencies In Arkansas For Disaster R...
Friday Dec 18 | via Federal Emergency Management Agency
Multiple federal agencies and departments are here to help Arkansas recover from damages incurred during the severe storms and flooding last October. Comment?
ARA president says more information needed about hom...
Monday Dec 14 | via Daily Record
For the past couple of years, Realtors in Arkansas have said tax credits for first-time homebuyers have attracted buyers to the housing market, but that a credit for existing home owners would be even better. Comment?
Benton Realtor says warmth of Saline County resident...
Monday Dec 14 | via Daily Record
After 23 years of selling real estate, Pat Mote has established a well-known presence in Saline County. Comment?
October homes sales up for central Arkansas, state
Monday Dec 14 | via Daily Record
For only the third time in 45 months, the Arkansas Realtors Association released a housing market report showing sales growth compared to a comparable month in the previous year. Comment?
8 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News
Wells Fargo's four top executives won't get cash bonuses for 2009, but are receiving performance-based stock awards currently worth a combined $25 million that are designed to keep them from being lured away by rival banks. Comment?
Reverse mortgages require research
11 min ago | via News Times
If you, your relatives or friends are contemplating applying for a reverse mortgage in 2010, check out the new guidelines proposed earlier this month by the federal regulatory agencies for financial institutions. Comment?
More foreclosures hit affluent communities
12 min ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune
Foreclosures increased in several upper- to middle-class neighborhoods even as the numbers dropped overall in Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties in 2009. Comment?
12 min ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune
Lance: To Greensburg's "vehicle policy." Oops! Greensburg apparently doesn't have a policy for vehicles used by city employees -- at least not one that officials can produce when requested. Comment?
Top national business stories of 2009
13 min ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune
The government's $787 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program got divvied up: $250 billion went to buy bank stock or loans, more than $140 billion went to automakers and financiers, and about $200 billion was aimed at mortgages. Comment?