Late payments rise on home equity credit lines
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Late payments on U.S. home equity  lines of credit rose to a 5-1/2 year high in the second quarter  of 2007 but delinquencies on many other types of consumer loans  fell, the American Bankers Association said on Wednesday.
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The number of Americans who may lose their homes to foreclosure reached a record in the second quarter as late payments by subprime borrowers surged to one of every seven loans.
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Late payments and foreclosures on U.S. homes rose in the fourth quarter, driven by subprime borrowers with weak credit and adjustable-rate mortgages that reset at higher interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, Aug 18  - New applications for US home loans rose last week while refinancings surged, as 30-year mortgage interest rates fell to their lowest level in over four months, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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US home buyers may see a slight rise in mortgage rates if housing finance company Fannie Mae, which is mired in an accounting scandal, slows purchases of bonds backed
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New applications for U.S. home loans  rose last week as refinancing activity accelerated amid  relatively flat 30-year mortgage rates, an industry group said  on Wednesday.
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Home loan borrowing continued to surge in July, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says.
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Late payments and new foreclosures on U.S. homes rose in the third quarter and are likely to grow as a massive wave of adjustable-rate mortgages reset at higher interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday.
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The borrower&#039;s pain is not necessarily the saver&#039;s gain. The cost of mortgages, home equity lines and credit card debt has gone up with each bump in interest rates by the Federal Reserve. Savers, for the most part, have not seen comparable increases in their returns.
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Americans increased their borrowing in June at a much faster pace than expected, with the rise led by higher credit card debt.
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WASHINGTON -- Late payments on credit card bills edged up this past spring, when high energy prices were squeezing the finances of some people and making it hard to pay bills on time.
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The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, a trend that signals many homeowners are increasingly unable to make timely payments on their mortgages or sell their homes amid a national housing slump.
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The housing slowdown has caused Americans to miss more payments on home loans, though more appear to be paying their credit card bills on time.
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New applications for U.S. home loans  rose last week while refinancings surged, as 30-year mortgage  interest rates fell to their lowest level in over four months,  an industry group said on Wednesday.
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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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New applications for U.S. home  mortgages rose last week as lower interest rates spurred  purchases, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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U.S. mortgage applications rose last week, with both new purchases and refinancings driven up by the lowest long-term home loan rates since early December, an industry trade group said on Wednesday.