| Mortgage rates, home prices both fall in Sacramento region (The Sacramento Bee) |
| A sale sign is posted in front of a home in West Sacramento. Mortgage rates are dropping, and so are home prices in the Sacramento region. What's unclear is whether falling mortgages will be enough to strengthen the fledgling recovery in Sacramento's troubled housing market. As rates fell to 5 percent or less for 30-year fixed mortgages, MDA DataQuick said Thursday, the median sale ... |
| 12/19/2008 |
| Another home builder falls (The Sacramento Bee) |
| The prolonged housing downturn has claimed a new casualty, Chicago-based Kimball Hill Homes, a Sacramento and north San Joaquin Valley home builder since 1995. The firm announced Tuesday it is going out of business. The announcement came eight months after the privately held, medium-size builder filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It builds houses in Sacramento, Rancho Cordova and ... |
| 12/16/2008 |
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