Zona just inked a deal to be the provider of financial news, real estate listings and loan rates on StarMedia's money page.

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Her goal: to pay down her mortgage and replace some of the income she lost when a real-estate loan she had made on another property recently went bad.

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Without this facility banks with real estate loan overexposures are lined up for failure on Bank Failure Friday.

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"I wouldn't tell a consumer that he can rely on the real estate broker to protect him from an avaricious loan provider, " said Guttentag.

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High consumer demand in Brazil, coupled with what the International Monetary Fund said this weekend was excessive loan growth, has prices for real estate and other goods and services on the rise.

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However, now back on its feet, the headlines are that GM wants to buy back GMAC, the auto loan, real estate mortgage, insurance giant, putting it right back into the financial business in a big way.

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On the financial and housing front loan growth was generally reported to be restrained across the country, with residential real estate lending and consumer lending showing more weakness than commercial lending.

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True, spending on new houses fell sharply again in July, but mortgage rates have been cut by the government's Housing Loan Corporation, and the government is considering reducing real-estate taxes and relaxing regulatory measures such as limits on the height of houses.

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