Today's Mortgage Terms starting with V

VA Loans:

Fixed-rate loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of making housing affordable to eligible U.S. veterans.

Variable Rate:

Interest rate that changes periodically in relation to a specific index such as treasury bills and the prime rate.

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UPDATE 1-RBC pays $11 mln to settle US mortgage fraud probe - Reuters
NEW YORK, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) mortgage unit will pay $10.98 million to settle charges it gave the U.S. government false information about borrowers who took out 219 home loans ...

New Orleans home-loan program builds slowly - New Orleans Times-Picayune
After months of dickering and false starts, the centerpiece in New Orleans' strategy of clustering people in viable neighborhoods is finally off the ground with forgivable loans for first-time homebuyers. A handful of low- to moderate-income families ...

A college football playoff system will cause big problems - ESPN.com
The NCAA continues to insist that two perfectly good names, Division I-A and Division I-AA, be changed to the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Football Championship Subdivision. TMQ proposes changing them to the Football at Variance with President ...

UPI NewsTrack Business - United Press International
NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. markets were mixed in New York on what is expected to be a light trading day, due to an early afternoon closing to extend the holiday weekend. With many investors staying home on the day after Thanksgiving, the Dow ...

U.S. Mortgage Rates Drop Most in Seven Years on Fed Debt Plan - Bloomberg
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. mortgage rates dropped by the most in at least seven years as a Federal Reserve pledge to buy $600 billion of debt succeeded where seven cuts in the central bank’s benchmark rate had failed. The average rate for a 30 ...

House values decline again - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Values in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties decreased 9.8 percent from September 2007 and 1.4 percent from this August, according to Standard & Poor's S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. The year-to-year drop was the eighth consecutive record for ...

Mortgage Rates Tumble on Fed Debt Purchasing Plan (Update1) - Bloomberg
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. mortgage rates plunged by the most in at least seven years yesterday as a Federal Reserve pledge to buy $600 billion of debt succeeded where seven cuts in the central bank’s benchmark rate had failed. The average rate ...

A Nightmare on the High Street as shops fall like dominoes - Guardian Unlimited
It was an extravagant launch party with all the trimmings. Among the guests eyeing up the freebies and glugging glasses of free white wine at the boutique Haymarket hotel in central London last Thursday were TV makeover star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen ...

Register for FREE - Wall Street Journal
Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. Potential acquirers expect targets to shop for a better offer. But lately, some potential acquirers found themselves competing against the U.S ...

Take a Stand Against Government Spending - Seekingalpha.com
By any reasonable assessment, the Troubled Asset Relief Program has been a miserable failure and a complete waste of taxpayer money. The basis used to ram the bill through Congress was the purchase of the toxic assets off of bank’s books. Not one ...