CORRECTED: National City net sinks 80 percent on mortgages
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(Reuters Estimates corrects analystsâ average profit estimate to 31 cents from 33 cents, in third paragraph)
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Home prices in 10 major metropolitan areas fell by a record 8.4 percent in the year through November, Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday.
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The number of new mortgages being approved for home buying fell again in November.
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(Corrects number of homes threatened to 68,000, from 6,800, 5th paragraph)
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Assn. index of applications to buy or refinance a home fell 7.3% last week to 636.4 amid higher interest rates. It was the biggest drop in 4 months. The average 30-year fixed rate rose to 6.32%, the highest since Oct., from 6.23% the week before.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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While the housing downturn has  depressed once-thriving real estate markets around the nation,  far-flung suburbs of major cities have suffered the most abrupt  market correction.
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National City Corp , one of the  10 largest U.S. banks, said on Wednesday it will cut its common  stock dividend 49 percent and eliminate 900 jobs as it stops  offering mortgages through brokers.
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Empty homes and for-sale signs clutter neighborhoods. You've lost your job or know someone who has. Your paycheck and nest egg are taking a hit. Could the country be in recession?
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The pace of existing home sales in July fell slightly to a 5.75 million unit annual rate and the supply of unsold single-family homes hit its highest level since 1991, the National Association of Realtors said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The slump began this month and will last another 4 to 5 months, Bill Gross, chief investment officer at Pimco, told the Financial Times. He said gov't efforts to freeze mortgage rates to stem rising foreclosures didn't go far enough. "What needs to be done is something fairly radical compared to Republican orthodoxy, which means spend money and absorb the deficit as opposed to pretending that you're fiscally conservative," he said.
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Mortgage lending has fallen for two successive months for the first time in four years, reinforcing observations of a weakening property market.
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Homeownership in the United States dropped for a fourth consecutive quarter, suggesting that more Americans will miss their best chance of building wealth.
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Business & money: Sixth successive month of price falls, and mortgage lending at two-year low despite rate cuts
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Countrwide Financial, the biggest mortgage lender in the US, slashes its profit predictions for the full year.
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The estimated $2 trillion to $4 trillion loss in real estate wealth could be more damaging to the public than falling stock values since more Americans own homes than own stock.
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Business & money: Building society damaged by the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US and other one-off charges