Mortgage 'U-turn' at Nationwide
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The Nationwide building society has stopped offering the same mortgage deals to new and current borrowers
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Countrywide Financial Corp  posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, but its shares climbed after the largest U.S. mortgage lender said it expected to be profitable in the fourth quarter and in 2008, and has weathered the worst of the nationwide housing downturn.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Monday said it has low exposure to nonprime mortgages, but may still experience fluctuating earnings in the near term due to turmoil in the U.S. subprime market.
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The panic engulfing mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC, Britain's fifth largest lender, may mark a watershed in the British economy by undermining the confidence of investors and consumers.
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Shares of Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest mortgage lender, plummeted yesterday on rumors, which the company denied, that it was contemplating a bankruptcy filing. The drop came on yet another bad day for the stock market, which has been off to a terrible start for 2008.
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UNITED KINGDOM - The process of property market weakening has been recently observed due to declining mortgage lending for the last two months in a row in the UK.
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Mortgage rates around the country crept up this week, although 30-year mortgages still were below the 6 percent level for a fourth straight week, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp., its stock pummeled this week by rumors of bankruptcy and lackluster housing market forecasts, said Wednesday the percentage of borrowers who missed payments on home loans last month rose, signaling worsening trouble for the nation's largest mortgage lender and for the entire mortgage sector.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, on Tuesday offered to refinance or modify up to $16 billion of adjustable-rate mortgages through the end of 2008 to help about 82,000 borrowers who face higher payments stay in their homes.
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Freddie Mac, the No. 2 U.S. mortgage finance company, on Thursday reported an unexpected net loss of $211 million for the first quarter, citing a souring outlook for mortgage credit risk that widened credit spreads.
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British house prices advanced this month at the fastest pace since December, bolstering the case for an interest rate increase by the Bank of England next week. The average cost of a home rose 1.1 percent from May, to Â£184,070 ($368,000), according to the Nationwide Building Society, the biggest mortgage lender in Britain. âThe bounce-back in June is a bit stronger than expected,â said Fionnuala Earley, chief economist at Nationwide. âIt looks like the bank will bring forward the decision to increase interest rates, and increase the risk that rates get to 6 percent this year.â.
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CHARLOTTE - Countrywide Financial Corp. , the biggest US mortgage lender, said profit will rebound from its first quarterly loss in 25 years as it cuts jobs and tightens lending standards. Shares rose $4.23, or 32.4 percent, to $17.30, the biggest increase in more than two decades.
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Nationwide, the UK&#39;s largest building society, yesterday warned that more than 40pc of Britons believe they face a retirement of financial hardship, while the Consumers
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Countrywide Financial, the biggest mortgage lender in the US, reports a 41% fall in home loans in January.
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Britain's financial authorities stepped in to rescue mortgage lender Northern Rock &lt;NRK.L&gt; on Friday as the group, which has lent aggressively to home buyers, fell victim to the sharp rise in borrowing costs between banks.
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This just in from London: the U.S.  subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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If you&#39;re hoping an adjustable-rate mortgage will help you afford your dream house, you may want to rethink those granite countertops.