Housing finance
After SBI, HDFC offers floating rate for home loans
02 Dec 2009
HDFC has introduced a new dual-rate loan under which a borrower will be charged a fixed rate up to March 2012 and a floating rate thereafter
Freddie Mac reports $6.3 billion Q3 net loss
07 Nov 2009
DCB to offer home loans below 8 per cent
01 Oct 2009
HSBC to step up home loan activity in India
14 Aug 2009
SBI further sweetens 8 per cent home loan offer
01 Jul 2009
State Bank of India is making its home loans even more attractive by scaling down interest rates after the first through two new home loan schemes
HDFC to raise Rs4000 crore through QIP route
10 Jun 2009
US home sales rebound in February
26 Mar 2009
ICICI Bank cuts new home loan rates by 25-50 bps
06 Mar 2009
GM’s home financing arm to lay off 5,000 employees
04 Sep 2008
GM’s home financing arm, Detroit-based GMAC, will cut 5,000 jobs at its Minneapolis-based Residential Capital (ResCap) LLC mortgage unit and close all 200 GMAC Mortgage retail offices
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