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- 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
Florida real estate prices soar in third quarter
Other larger MSAs reporting higher resales activity for third quarter 2005 include: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, where 13,973 homes sold for a 12 percent gain; and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, where 3,802 homes changed hands for a 5 percent increase. ... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
WWNotary, MRG join forces to streamline real estate loans
WWNotary and MRG Document Technologies have created a system enabling their customers to electronically post, review, close, record and file completed electronic mortgage documents. WWNotary's product, DigaSign, makes it possible to sign digitally at o... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
Home builder D.R. Horton earnings shatter records
D.R. Horton, one of the nation's largest home builders, today reported the highest quarterly and annual earnings in the company's history and raised its 2006 earnings guidance. The company's stock (NYSE:DHI) was up approximately 2 percent on the news, ... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
Texans indicted in alleged $2 million real estate fraud
A group of Texans were indicted in Dallas in connection with an alleged mortgage fraud scheme involving about $2 million in fraudulent loans. The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of T... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
Builder confidence declines in November
David Seiders, NAHB chief economist Responding to sharply lower measures of consumer confidence as well as rising mortgage rates and other factors in recent months, single-family home builders are adjusting their market expectations downward to a sti... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
Fannie Mae's CEO gets a raise
Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd Fannie Mae on Tuesday said it increased its chief executive's base salary and would pay new chief financial officer, Robert Blakely, a base salary of $650,000, according to media reports. Blakely will also receive 10,000 ... - 11/16/2005 - Real Estate News
FEMA's timetable for housing hurricane evacuees criticized
The National Multi Housing Council, a trade association representing apartment firms, today announced that it generally supports the Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan to transition all remaining hurricane evacuees to apartments by Dec. 1, thoug... - 11/15/2005 - Real Estate News
Fed head nominee pledges consistency with Greenspan
An example of the increased openness of the Fed under Greenspan is the written text released when the Board of Governors makes a decision, such as the recent series of hikes to the federal funds rate. For the last year, Greenspan, and hence the Fed, has... - 11/15/2005 - Real Estate News
U.S. real estate prices post healthy gains
Median third-quarter metro area home prices ranged from $72,800 in Danville, Ill., to nearly 10 times that amount in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont area of California where the median price was $721,900, according to National Association of Realtors ... - 11/15/2005 - Real Estate News
Existing-home sales set quarterly record
According to Freddie Mac, the national average commitment rate on a 30-year conventional fixed-rate mortgage was 5.76 percent in the third quarter, up from 5.72 percent in the second quarter; the rate was 5.89 percent in third-quarter 2004. Thomas M. S...