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Mortgage Resources

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Articles

A Consumer's Guide To Mortgage Lock-Ins
A Consumer's Guide To Refinancing Your Mortgage
Advice from the Pros
Buyer demand fuels frequent use of ARMs
Closing Your Mortgage Loan
Competing at the Hampton Classic is Always Special for Melissa Cohn!
Deducting Your Mortgage Interest Under the Tax Code
Hampton Classic Opens 30th Anniversary Celebration With Manhattan Mortgage Company's Opening Day Festivities
Housing Market to Weaken Even Further
How Much Can You Qualify For - Self Test
How To Save Half On Interest Costs
How To Shop For A Mortgage
If Your Mortgage Loan Application Is Rejected
Jumbo Mortgages Get More Costly, Harder to Find
Managing Your Mortgage
Manhattan Mortgage financing NY condos in Ireland
Melissa Cohn of Manhattan Mortgage Named One of the Top 20 Women in Real Estate
Melissa Cohn Offers Mortgage-Shoppers Good Advice
Mortgage Insurance - Frequently Asked Questions
Negative Pledge Financing
PMI's Lowering Your Down Payment
Transferring A Loan Between Lenders
Trump Mortgage, You're foreclosed
Understanding The Loan Application Process
What Happens After You Apply For A Mortgage?
When Your Debt Exceeds Your Home Value
Which Mortgage? A Complicated Tale
Who's Buying Long Island?
Why Mortgage Escrow Accounts?

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• Bear market squeezes mortgages (The Real Deal - November 3, 2008)

• Whittle Down Your Mortgage (New York Magazine - November 2, 2008)

• Foreign apartment buyers grow scarce (The Real Deal - October 28, 2008)

• Lenders tighten up standards for co-op loans (The Real Deal - October 3, 2008)

• The Default Phenomenon Comes to N.Y. (New York Sun - September 25, 2008)

• For Buyers, Many Roadblocks (New York Times - September 21, 2008)

• Mortgages: Considering the Seven-Year Plan (New York Times - September 21, 2008)

• Jump in Mortgage Rates Disappoints Home Buyers (Wall St. Journal - September 18, 2008)

• Amid mortgage woes, first-time buyers seek solutions (The Real Deal - September 1, 2008)

• It's a Wonderful Life (In Jersey) (Newsweek - August 2, 2008)

• Rich, but Rejected (The New York Times - July 13, 2008)

• What You Need to Know to Get a Mortgage (The New York Times - June 1, 2008)

• The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate (The New York Observer - May 19, 2008)

• Need $23 Million Fast? (The New York Observer - April 28, 2008)

• Tiptoeing Through a Minefield (CNBC.com - March 6, 2008)

• SHOPPING SPREE: It's not every building that will give its buyers a free winter wardrobe (New York Post - February 28, 2008)

• Jitters for First-Time Homebuyers (The New York Times - February 17, 2008)

• Waiting to see if ARMs fallout reaches Manhattan (The Real Deal - February 2008)

• Rates luring homeowners to refinance, but for better deals, not to tap equity (Daily News - February 4, 2008)

• What's Next for New York City Real Estate? (The New York Times - January 13, 2008)

• Mortgage Pain Hits Prudent Borrowers (Wall Street Journal Online - December 11, 2007)

• Federal Reserve Delivers Rate Cut (WCAV-TV article, Charlottesville VA - December 11, 2007)

• Refinancing May Be Harder to Enjoy - While Rates are Down, Lenders Tighten Rules; Savings Prove Slender (Wall Street Journal - November 25, 2007)

• GETTING PERSONAL: Buying A Second Home Amid Mortgage Woes (Dow Jones News Service - September 25, 2007)

• Experts Offer Insight On How Lower Interest Rate Will Affect Investors (NY1 - September 24, 2007)

• Mortgage blow hits 'McMansion' clients (Financial Times - August 29, 2007)

• The Real Word on Mortgages (Hamptons.com - August 2007)

• The Manhattan Real Estate Slump That Wasn't (New York Times - August 19, 2007)

• Thrifts Benefit from Mortgage Crisis (Crains NY - August 21, 2007)

• The Manhattan Real Estate Slump That Wasn't (New York Times - August 19, 2007)

• Mortgage Ills Start to Strain Homebuying in Manhattan (New York Times - August 17, 2007)

• Though City Borrowers Feel Pinch, Manhattan Seen as Insulated (New York Sun - August 16, 2007)

• Home Inequity (Wall Street Journal - August 16, 2007)

• Jumbo Mortgages Get More Costly, Harder to Find (CNBC.com - August 13, 2007)

• Trump Mortgage, "You're foreclosed" (Zuma Press - August 13, 2007)

• August is vacation time (New York Post - August 6, 2007)

• Housing Market to Weaken Even Further As Mortgage Industry Takes Cure (Wall Street Journal - August 6, 2007)

• Mortgage Market Primed For Trouble: Crunch & Squeeze (CNBC.com - August 3, 2007)

• The $3.6 Million Mortgage (The New York Times - July 1, 2007)

• Tough Choice: ARM or Fixed-Rate? (The New York Times - June 15, 2007)

• Melissa Cohn Ranked Among Best Entrepreneurs (Real Estate Weekly - April 18, 2007)

• Melissa Cohn and 4 TMMC Brokers Named to TOP 200 in the Nation List (Mortgage Originator Magazine - April 2007)

• Manhattan Mortgage's Beth Divney featured in "Perennial Producers" (Mortgage Originator Magazine - April 2007)

• The Battle for a Mortgage (April 1, 2007)

• Mortgage Woes May Dampen House Sales (March 14, 2007)

• Mann Report - Melissa Cohn Cover Story (March 2007)

• Melissa Cohn wins Stevie Award (March 5, 2007)

• TMMC's CEO Melissa Cohn is Finalist in Annual Stevie Awards (January 18, 2007)

• Home Loan Security - DAILY NEWS (January 2007)

• Q & A: Mortgage biz on borrowed time - THE REAL DEAL (January 2007)