Your Money: Home-equity loans tougher to getUSA Today - Aug 27, 2007Some lenders have stopped offering home-equity lines of credit and home-equity loans altogether, even to borrowers with good credit. …

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Timely fill-in: SBA-backed loans provide capital amid credit crunchLos Angeles Times, CA - Aug 29, 2007As tightening credit rules shut more small-business borrowers out of home […]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Home-equity loans: Fixed rate, five-year term, based on $30,000 at 80% loan-to-value New-car loans: Fixed rate, 48-month term, 10% down on $22,000 vehicle Used-car loans: Fixed rate, 36-month term, 20% down on $10,000 vehicle that’s three years old Read More
BusinessWeek - A year ago, consumers were still taking out home […]

San Diego Union-Tribune - But they declined compared to the fourth quarter of 2006 while several other types of debt – home equity loans, property improvement loans, indirect auto loans and personal loans – saw delinquencies rise. Typically, “credit card delinquencies Read More
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Wall Street Journal - National City Home Equity last week suspended approvals for home-equity loans and lines of credit, citing the roiling credit markets. The decision didn’t impact the loan-approval process at National City’s banking operations. The home equity business Read More
PR Newswire - The loans were described in a 2003 […]

USA Today - That rate, the basis for lending between banks for overnight funds, has a more direct impact on consumers by influencing interest rates for items including credit card balances and home-equity loans. The Fed has not altered its target for the federal Read More
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BusinessWeek - First Franklin says it resisted making a lot of the unwise loans that its rivals did. Countrywide, which on Aug. 22 got a $2 billion equity investment from Bank of America ( BAC ), and HSBC declined to comment. The Street meanwhile helped power the home Read More
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Kenya: Citizens Can't Afford Bank LoansAllAfrica.com, Washington - 4 hours agoAccording to a survey commissioned by the Central Bank of Kenya, the cost of operating savings and current accounts or securing a loan are high and cannot …

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Carlyle Makes Second Loan to Troubled AffiliateWashington Post, United States - 9 hours agoCarlyle Group, the District-based private equity giant, […]

Marketwatch - Falling prices make it more difficult for homeowners to tap their home equity or refinance their mortgages. Millions of Conforming loan limit to stay put if home prices fall — Rex Nutting Read More
Best Syndication - You are in urgent need of finance with not options left. Provided you don’t […]

Seattle Post Intelligencer - loan on their house and, eventually, could no longer keep up with the payments. Up until last month, Susan and her husband probably would have had to sell their home as part of their bankruptcy so creditors could get at the family’s home equity Read […]

BlueStone Real Estate Capital Secures $48M Acquisition and …Business Wire (press release), CA - 2 hours agoPHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlueStone Real Estate Capital, a real estate investment bank, has secured a $48M acquisition and construction loan to acquire …

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Shared equity can open doorsCourier Mail, Australia - Aug 26, 2007What are your thoughts on the merit of investigating a shared […]