MassHousing, the affordable-housing bank of the state of Massachusetts, has announced that it provided a record $704 million in financing for more than 7,000 housing units in fiscal year 2004.The total exceeded MassHousing's previous record -- $562 million in fiscal 2002 -- by $142 million, or 25%. The quasi-public agency's core business is to make below-market-rate loans to low- and moderate-income homebuyers, finance new mixed-income housing, and preserve existing affordable rental housing. It can be found on the Web at http://www.masshousing.com.
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A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.
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Issuances of new HECM-backed securities dropped off in June on both a monthly and yearly basis, according to a new report from New View Advisors.
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The vote to approve the $12 per share deal, which rejected a hostile bid from UWM Holdings, came following several postponements of a special meeting.
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A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.
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The government-sponsored enterprise clamped down on project review requirements and certain factory-built home appraisals while loosening other guidelines.
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The June jobs report is creating an overhang on economist forecasts for interest rates going forward, especially when combined with recent inflation data.
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