I was emailed by an associate with WNYC to spread the word on the Leonard Lapate show tomorrow on the stories behind New York City buildings with Christopher Gray, writer of the Streetscapes column in the New York Times.
What intrigued me about the show was that they are using the internet to facilitate it. Instead of [...]
It looks like New Century Financial Corp. has been officially cut off from Fannie Mae. Which means that the company that underwrites 20 percent of new loans in the country will not do business with New Century.
Is that Taps I hear in the distance?
Fannie Mae, formally known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, notified New Century [...]
The recent data that came out for February, 2007, that housing starts were up by 9 percent is wonderful news for the building community, but this will be the eye of the storm as building starts as a statistic will collapse in the 3rd quarter of 2007. And that is not all bad.
In the [...]