The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue recently announced its updated monthly list of tax liens outlining almost 50,000 state liens totaling over $344 million in unpaid taxes. The updated list shows an extra 3,136 liens issued in November totaling about $18.2 million in unpaid taxes. The month of November saw 562 liens taken off the list [...]

LendingTree’s Weekly Mortgage Rate Pulse recently announced that rates are still rising week over week. The weekly report is a picture in time of the average mortgage rates on offer by lenders in the LendingTree network. Rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage rose .22% to 5.05% last week. Same trend occurred for the 15-year fixed [...]

MoneyNow USA, a consumer loan website will very shortly celebrate its 5th anniversary online. It is owned by Blue Global Media, a performance marketing company specializing in customer acquisition and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Created in 2006, MoneyNow USA provides clientele with small sum loans to alleviate urgent financial crisis. The service intends to [...]

The Indiana Statewide Certified Development Corporation named United Fidelity Bank of Evansville the “Small Business Lender of the Year.” The award is granted for doing the highest volume of SBA 504 loans as a percentage of the Bank’s total business activity. The second place finisher was Shelby County Bank of Shelbyville. Congress started the SBA [...]

Shore Mortgage is earmarking another $100,000 to its “We Understand” initiative that rewards those homeowners who have kept current their mortgage payments despite having made applications for economic assistance at any Michigan lending institution. “Giving continues to be our corporate policy,” says Shore Mortgage President, Robert Rahal. Moved by families’ needs during the first $1000 [...]

Mercury Insurance, a top rated California automobile insurer, recently announced a planned $72 million premium lowering that could see at least 10% of California drivers qualify. Along with this price slash is other programs such as an announced group discount plan for university alumni and the addition of a 24-hour Roadside Assistance initiative for individuals [...]

1st Maryland Mortgage Corp. dba Great Oak Lending Partners, a trusted mortgage company and FHA Full Eagle direct lender servicing the Mid-Atlantic region, today announced that it was ranked #1 in Maryland for reverse mortgage production for the fiscal 3rd quarter of 2010. This is the second consecutive quarter that Great Oak has been ranked [...]

The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited (HKMC) today (Thursday) announced that its Board has approved the HKMC to launch a pilot scheme on reverse mortgage in 2011. The decision was reached after extensive consultation with the key stakeholders and a territory-wide survey of the potential users. The survey (conducted in October and November 2010) interviewed [...]

FreeMortgageFix.com announced the launch of its first-of-its-kind, free mortgage modification software that enables homeowners who are facing foreclosure to directly send modification applications to their lenders for consideration. Mortgage modification programs are under the auspices of the federal Home Affordable Modification Program. The HAMP Loan Modification program was created to aid homeowners facing possible foreclosure [...]

A new scholarship initiative geared towards SUNY graduate students was announced by the United University Professions (UUP), the United States’ most extensive union in higher learning. The scholarship, known as the William Scheuerman Post Baccalaureate Scholarship, is accessible to those SUNY graduate or professional students who best personify the aims of the labor union movement. [...]