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RISMEDIA, August 21, 2008-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 15, 2008. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 419.3, a decrease of 1.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 425.9 one week earlier. On an ...
RISMEDIA, August 19, 2008-New research by Christopher J. Mayer and Paul Milstein, professor of real estate and senior vice dean at Columbia Business School, shows that a rise in mortgage rates has had a significant negative impact on house prices throughout the U.S., reducing prices by more than 10%. Mayer ...
RISMEDIA, August 14, 2008-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 8, 2008. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 425.9, a decrease of 1.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 432.6 one week earlier. ...
RISMEDIA, August 7, 2008-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 1, 2008. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 432.6, an increase of 2.8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from 420.8 one week earlier. ...
RISMEDIA, August 7, 2008-Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a provider of title insurance, specialty insurance, claims management services and information services, announced the acquisition of all of the state of Colorado title insurance operations of the Mercury Companies, Inc.The acquired operations, which include Security Title, First American Heritage Title, Title America ...
RISMEDIA, August 1, 2008-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 25, 2008. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 420.8, a decrease of 14.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 489.6 one week earlier. On an ...
RISMEDIA, July 23, 2008-It was announced today that Kenneth Jenny, Ginny Cain McMurtrie and Michael Bonfils have joined together to create a unique media consulting services company called Mediatise. Mediatise is focused on the residential real estate brokerage industry and the specific challenges faced by all brokerage companies in today's ...
RISMEDIA, July 17, 2008-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 11, 2008. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 522.2, an increase of 1.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 513.4 one week earlier. On an ...