by admin | Oct 31, 2008 | News
WASHINGTON – Oct. 31, 2008 – Rates on 30-year mortgages spiked this week as the tumult in financial markets continued to be felt in housing finance. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.46% this week, up from 6.04%...
by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | News
OCALA, Fla. – Oct. 30, 2008 – After looking at five houses in the past several months, Matt and Carrie Geiger made an offer on a home in the Ashton neighborhood in Gainesville a day after it came on the market. They were motivated to buy in the neighborhood near...
by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Oct. 30, 2008 – Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson is reminding consumers whose homes contain a polybutylene pipe system that time is running out to file a claim in a nationwide class-action settlement. Many...
by admin | Oct 30, 2008 | News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Oct. 30, 2008 – Three recent home buyers who moved to Florida from other states will appeal a judge’s ruling that dismissed their challenge to property tax breaks offered by two state constitutional amendments, one of their lawyers said...
by admin | Oct 28, 2008 | News
Mortgage rates fell this week as consumers cut their spending amid an economic downturn and a major slump in the labor market. Mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac reported Nov. 6 that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.2 percent this week. That’s down from 6.46...
