Some home buyers fall for common pitfalls when purchasing a home. How can you help make sure your clients don’t fall for one? Credit.com recently featured some of the biggest mistakes home buyers often make. Their list included: 1. Trying to fix credit scores before buying a home.  Home buyers may do more harm than good if they don’t consult a financial expert first. “Even paying down credit card balances, which is a good thing as far as your credit […]

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The Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee meets today and Wednesday to decide whether the economy could use another boost. Threats from the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, a dismal U.S. job report in May, low inflation, and dropping consumer prices has shaken the U.S.’s economic recovery in recent weeks. Some analysts speculate that the Fed will decide at its policy meeting to extend Operation Twist, a plan in which the Fed has sold short-term securities in order to buy up longer-term […]

Violent crime in the U.S. fell 4 percent in 2011, according to FBI crime data. However, violent crime increased in more than half of the cities that have among the highest crime rates in the nation, according to a review of crime data by 24/7 Wall St. “The cities with the highest crime rates tend to have particularly high poverty rates, high unemployment, and low median income,” according to its analysis. The six most dangerous cities in the U.S., according […]

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By helping home owners refinance their mortgages into low interest rates, banks are finding unexpected profits. Banks stand to earn as much as $12 billion in revenue this year by refinancing mortgages under the government program known as Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), Nomura Holdings Inc. estimates. The government revised its HARP program last year to encourage more banks to refinance mortgages of underwater home owners, helping these home owners take advantage of record low interest rates and cut their […]

You may not have considered how your city ranks in the masculinity department. But COMBOS, along with “Best Places to Live” researcher Bert Sperling, released the fourth annual ranking of America’s manliest cities. The 50 largest metro areas were ranked on the quantity of “masculine” offers, such as number of major league sports teams; the availability of so-called “manly lifestyle” activities like fishing, woodworking, and home improvement work; and number of “manly businesses,” like home improvement stores and steak houses. […]

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New York lawmakers introduced a bill that could mean jail time for mortgage servicer executives or their employees who commit foreclosure fraud. New York AG Eric Schneiderman drafted The Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Act of 2012, which was sponsored by state Assembly member Helene Weinstein, D-Brooklyn. Servicers could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine in the event they “authorize, prepare, execute or offer for filing false documents in a pending or prospective residential foreclosure action.” Multiple […]

The housing revival is under way, but will need sustained job growth to continue concludes “The State of the Nation’s Housing” report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. “What the housing sector needs is a sustained increase in jobs to bring household growth back to its long-term pace and spur demand,” says Chris Herbert, Director of Research at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, who noted that household formations have fallen “well below expected long-run rates” due to the […]