Ken Harney
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New disclosure rules could further complicate closingsAug 21, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Could home sale closings get delayed in the coming months, even more than they are now? Bankers, real estate agents and title insurers think they might. The...
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Renewed tax benefits would pay off for homeownersAug 07, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Just before Congress headed out for summer vacation this week, a Senate committee started something that's likely to prove important to thousands of homeown...
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Helping underwater homeowners move onJul 28, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Could a little-noticed policy change by giant mortgage investor Fannie Mae help homeowners who'd like to move but can't because they're underwater - they ow...
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What home equity bomb?Jul 17, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - It's the emerging housing success story that almost nobody knows about: Hundreds of thousands of homeowners who took out record numbers of home equity lines...
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Mortgage customers vent; lenders fumeJul 10, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Mortgage borrowers by the hundreds are lining up to vent their anger and tell their tales of woe on a federally run consumer complaint website - and the ban...
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Lenders go high-tech to spot borrowers' liesJul 03, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - It's one of the most common lies that homebuyers tell mortgage lenders, and it may be on the upswing: In order to get a lower interest rate and down payment...
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First-time homebuyers back in the marketJun 26, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - When Federal Reserve head Janet Yellen was asked about housing issues last week, she gave a classic economist's "on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand" answer....
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Fixing a reverse mortgage trapJun 21, 2015 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Soon after Judy Stephens of Lafayette, Louisiana, lost her husband this past January, she got hit with more bad news, this time from the mortgage company. S...
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Insider's guide to housing marketplaceJun 12, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - When the country's largest real estate trade group bares some of its innermost worries, should homeowners, sellers and buyers pay attention? Absolutely - if...
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Tougher standards needed for tax-transcript accessJun 05, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - You probably heard about the massive security breach the IRS disclosed last week that allowed hackers to obtain detailed tax return information on 104,000 t...