SUNSET BEACH - Memorial Day marked the official opening of the summer home rental season in coastal North Carolina, but as gasoline prices refuse to peak, real estate companies are seeing more houses stay empty.

Mortgage rates creeping upward USA Today - 5 hours ago The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage edged up to 6.45% last week, according to Freddie Mac, compared with 5.48% in January. ...

Notice of Application Bank Acquisition Lowcountry National Bank, ("Lowcountry") 36 Sea Island Parkway, Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina 29907, intends to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of common stock of First National Bank of Nassau County ("First National") pursuant to a merger (the "Merger").

BaerMarketingNetwork.com of Cary, NC Announces Release of ... PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 19 hours ago Cary, NC (PRWEB) June 29, 2008 -- Ready to step up promotion for their bathroom remodeling business, Just Baths Remodeling and the Baer Marketing Network ...

Royersford woman tapes testimony against contractor All Around Philly, PA - 22 hours ago An investigation of Mager began in March when the woman notified Royersford police and reported that Mager did not complete home remodeling work for which ...

Last Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touted Chad Edwards, the little-known Democratic congressman from Waco, Texas, for her party's vice-presidential slot. The players of the popular D.C. parlor game Guess-the-Veep—busy bandying about hot names like former North Carolina Senator and veteran vice presidential candidate John Edwards and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty—paused to offer a ...

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Home loans confuse, distress buyers Corpus Christi Caller Times, TX - Jun 29, 2008 The loan was an example of a subprime mortgage that proliferated in the early half of this decade. Such loans helped lead to the mortgage crisis, ... Countrywide Sued by California, Illinois, Over Mortgage Loans Bloomberg California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown sues Countrywide Los Angeles Times Bank of America plans 7500 Countrywide cuts Bizjournals.com AHN - Seattle Times all 1,991 news articles

She's on her second career and she runs her own business. She's a transplant (isn't everyone') who arrived in Wilmington as the real estate market caught fire. But even as housing embers have cooled, she's hired more people to help her.She's a real estate agent (isn't everyone'), but she also is 27.

A wave of home foreclosures has swept through communities around the nation, but Kinston and other parts of North Carolina have been spared much of the devastation seen in other housing markets.

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