A New Way to Tap Home Equity (Washington Post)
Improbable as it sounds at a time when U.S. homeowners have lost billions of dollars in equity, an industry is taking shape to help them tap portions of their equity wealth without incurring traditional mortgage debt or making interest payments.
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More Cons Than Pros To 401(k) Loan (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
In the past year, the credit crunch has spread from mortgages to student loans and other types of debt. Home equity lines of credit have been reeled in.
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More Cons Than Pros To 401(k) Loan (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
In the past year, the credit crunch has spread from mortgages to student loans and other types of debt. Home equity lines of credit have been...
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Exploring a reverse mortgage (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Consider options: A traditional mortgage, home equity loan or line of credit might prove best. Consider costs: Weigh high upfront costs in reverse mortgages. One expense is "non-recourse" insurance, so if you collect more in payments than your house is worth, your heirs don't pay that balance.
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Ways to tap home equity without taking on mortgage debt (Seattle Times)
Improbable as it sounds at a time when American homeowners have lost billions in equity holdings, a new industry is taking shape to help them tap portions of their equity wealth without incurring traditional mortgage debt or making interest payments.
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Money Panel: Home loan better than 403b variety (The Salinas Californian)
QUESTION: In October 2007 I took out a loan from my 403b for $50,000 at 9.25 percent interest. The repayment is through payroll deduction at $462 every two weeks for five years. The loan payments are repaying my 403b plan, including interest, with after-tax dollars. But I understood the repayment would come from pre-tax dollars, because the payments go back into my 403b account. In fact, the ...
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Negative equity could hit 1.3m, says study (Financial Times)
Up to 1.3m households could be plunged into negative equity if house prices fall by 25-35 per cent, according to a report.
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HFF Arranges $90M Construction Loan for Archstone Boston M-F (Commercial Property News)
Development of Archstone Avenir, a 241-unit luxury apartment community in Downtown Boston, is moving forward with help from a $90 million construction loan arranged by the Boston and Dallas offices of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P.
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Negative equity: 1.3 million households at risk (Independent)
A UK recession could leave up to 1.3 million households in negative equity, analysts predicted yesterday. House prices will fall by 25-35 per cent from peak to trough, compared with just 12 per cent from 1990 to 1995, the Bernstein analysts said. In the "recession case" of a 35 per cent drop, 1.3 million households, or nearly 20 per cent of mortgages, would be in negative equity and banks would ...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-05 16:07 RLPC-Fresenius' $2.65 bln acquisition loan launches-sources (Interactive Investor)
LONDON , Sept 5 (Reuters) - Following a highly successful senior syndication, a loan of up to $2.65 billion backing German healthcare firm Fresenius AG's acquisition of US peer APP Pharmaceuticals has launched to general syndication, banking sources said on Friday.
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