Loan Changes in Brazil Motivate New Buyers and Home Building
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Brazilâs newfound economic stability and changes in lending laws are for the first time making it possible for the countryâs working poor to buy their own homes.
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A few little changes in behavior can reap big savings.
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Rising residential real estate values have been a blessing for many households.
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China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nationâs benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool surging property prices.
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The countryâs central bank cut the benchmark lending rate to a record low as a rally in Brazilâs currency holds inflation at an eight-year low. Policy makers, led by the bankâs president, Henrique Meirelles, 61, lowered the overnight lending rate by half a percentage point, to 12 percent.
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Home buyers and home sellers alike can  find more innovative and useful features than ever on real  estate Web sites, which are nimbly adapting to the U.S. housing  slump.
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The real estate market these days is a tale of two Americas, and one of them is not doing too badly.
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Investors are increasingly optimistic about the state of the Brazil's economy as Brazilian share prices hit a record high.
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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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EVEN MORTGAGE lenders cannot get their arms around the dramatic changes in the industry over the past several months. The fall of the subprime mortgage market and the subsequent resetting of underwriting guidelines, increases in foreclosure filings, and consumer anxiety have been dramatic to both borrower and lender alike.
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Brazilian bank increases financing for petrochemical sector    RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) said on Monday that its credit lines to the country's petrochemical industry had reached 900 million reals (420 million U.S.
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Housing starts have been very high relative to the number of homes that builders are trying to sell.
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The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
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Homeowners increased their mortgage borrowing by almost $600 billion in the last quarter of 2006, an annual pace of 6.4 percent.
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With the help of low mortgage rates, sales of both new and existing homes in the country are on track to hit new record highs for all of this year, analysts say.
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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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BrazilÂs central bank cut its forecasts for inflation and growth in 2006, indicating that there may be more interest rate cuts this year as price increases stay tame amid an economic slowdown. In its quarterly inflation report, the bank reduced its 2006 inflation forecast to 3.4 percent, from 3.8 percent, while it raised its 2007 projection to 4.3 percent, from 4.2 percent. The bank also reduced its forecast of growth in the gross domestic product for 2006 to 3.5 percent, from 4 percent. ÂThis report indicates more interest rate cuts, not fewer,Â said Guilherme da NÃ³brega, chief economist at the ItaÃº Corretora brokerage in SÃ£o Paulo. ÂIt shows G.D.P. growth is lower than the bank previously expected and so the inflation outlook is calmer.Â.