Richmond Mortgage News

Wanted: Richmond Mortgage Professionals (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
With interest rates declining, millions of Americans are working to refinance their homes creating high demand for mortgage professionals in the area. In fact, despite rising national unemployment and job losses in recent months, Adecco USA currently has demand for more than 250 mortgage professionals in the Richmond market for great positions they need talent for today.

Twin Cities benefits, costs spill over into Wisconsin (Leader-Telegram)
Studying statistics sometimes reveals surprises. But a look at U.S. Census Bureau numbers from eight west-central Wisconsin counties released this month reinforces what has been widely reported in recent years.

Taking a glance back at highlights from 2008 (The Register-Herald)
The area marked the first anniversary of the Jan. 30, 2007, Ghent Little General Store explosion that claimed the lives of four and left five others critically injured.

Home defaults could get worse, UVa report says (The Daily Progress)
An urban planning class at the University of Virginia has found that home foreclosures in Charlottesville and Albemarle County have shot up over the past year.

Uhles: Pop Rocks (The Augusta Chronicle)
And so, the end (of the year) is near and 2008 faces the final curtain. The next time we meet, it will be a new year, filled with hope (I hope) and expectation (I expect). I'd like to wrap 2008 with impressions of two local shows, one I thought I would never see and another that has become a year-end tradition.

Last-minute Shoppers Can't Save Dismal Christmas (FOX 5 News Atlanta)
Last-minute shoppers headed to the nation's stores and malls on the day before Christmas, looking for the final items they needed and searching for good deals - but for retailers, the season was essentially over long ago.

Did Local Stores See Shoppers this Christmas? (CBS 6 Richmond)
Carytown offers shoppers a very unique experience and many customers make it a destination during the hoildays. But with tighter purse strings, have shoppers turned away from Cary Street in search of brand stores? Not according to shoppers we found.

Weather, economy chilling to families (Contra Costa Times)
First-time homeless arrive daily at shelters across the Bay Area, as the economy and outdoor thermometers ice over in tandem.