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Family wealth differences are having a more pronounced effect on consumer behavior as home prices increase, according to the Consumer Federation of America. And it does not look promising for homeownership hopefuls.

The new manual underwriting guidelines could make it tougher for some borrowers to get federally insured low-downpayment loans.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is exclusively brokering the mortgage servicing rights, which have a wide geographic dispersion outside of a less than 19% Texas concentration and less than 10% California concentration.

The consumer must purchase the flood coverage in combination with homeowners insurance. The company lays claim to being the first admitted carrier in the state to offer such coverage post-Biggert-Waters.

Strategic partnership turns run-down, extremely poor neighborhood of Anchorage, Ala., into a mixed-use residential and commercial center.

There have been low levels of homebuilding in Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida due to the glut of cheap, distressed homes that flooded the market during the recession.

A 2012 attempt to get Republic Mortgage Insurance Co. off the books failed because of investor opposition.

The Rate Reset Protection option enables eligible borrowers to reset and lock-in a lower rate on a conforming, jumbo and super jumbo five-year adjustable-rate mortgage up to five times during the life of the loan.

A continuing stumbling block is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are unhappy about having their liens on properties subordinate to PACE loans, a DBRS executive said at ABS West.

The registry is not entitled to be notified of a pending tax lien sale, the ruling states.