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Refinancing could save Denver-area homeowners $600 mililon annually

“It really is giving yourself a pay raise without having to argue with your boss,” Tom Clark on the benefits of refinancing into record low [...]

Mortgage Banking Industry Threatened

“This is an ironic result in a bill that is trying to mitigate systemic risk and too-big-to-fail [...]

FHA Chief Addresses Housing In Denver

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing crisis, but there are signs the Obama Administration efforts are working, says FHA Commissioner David [...]

Where, oh where, are all the HUD foreclosures?

“I don’t think they want to put all of this stuff on the market at once and just saturate it. I think they are just sitting on it.” Bobby [...]

HUD foreclosures drop by 15%

“The FHA never strayed away from our underwriting guidelines and we have withstood the test of time,”Deborah [...]

FHA loans soar in Denver, Colorado

“I would say that the FHA loan product is filling a niche in the market here in Colorado and in the Denver area,” Deborah [...]

Brooks Tower now approved for government-backed loans

Residents of Brooks Tower approve an amendment that clears the way for government loans for buyers and [...]

Walls coming down between housing, transporation and environment

All extraordinary things happen from the bottom up, not from the top down. Ron [...]

Foreclosure filings could hit 40,000 in Colorado this year

Foreclosure filings in Colorado could  hit or exceed 40,000 filings this year, officials said today, following a report that tracked more than 12,000 foreclosure filings in the second quarter.

“It is possible; it is not outlandish,” Ryan McMaken, who researched and wrote the second-quarter report for the Colorado Division of Housing. “The total for the mid-year [...]

FHA loans almost 50 percent of loans in Denvery

Government-insured FHA loans accounted for 47.5 percent the financing for all of the homes closed in the Denver area in June, reports  San Diego-based DataQuick.

To get a perspective on this, I turned to Peter Lansing, president of Universal Lending, and a sponsor of InsideRealEstateNews.com.

Universal Lending probably does more FHA-insured loans than any other lender in [...]