Housing, Bank Troubles Deepen
Story date: 2008-03-07 07:29:00
Added on: 2008-03-07 23:51:56
Wall Street Journal - ... starting the housing market by raising the cap on the size of mortgages that can be bought by government-sponsored mortgage ... To calculate the sales prices, the FHA used government and commercial data for metropolitan statistical areas and regions ...
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