By Charlene Crowell
(Trice Edney Wire) – For the first time in 30 years, rising home prices and interest rates have translated into a drop in existing home sales and worsening affordability challenges for middle class families.
Among the nation’s...
Shopping for auto coverage has never been cheap, but it’s gotten downright painful: the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows average U.S. auto-insurance costs up roughly 21 percent year-over-year. Against that backdrop, comparison marketplaces promise to do the haggling...
Today’s need-to-know storiesSingapore fines nine banks including UBS and Citi in $1.6bn laundering caseSingapore has imposed a total of S$27.45mn ($21.5mn) in penalties on nine financial institutions, including UBS, Citi and Julius Baer, for breaches linked to a...
It’s difficult to imagine the true toll of losing everything to a fire until it happens. Overwhelming, confusing and paralyzing are just a few ways to describe the process of rebuilding your life after a fire has...
Despite living in high-risk flood zones, less than 25% of homeowners in Harris County carry flood insurance, leaving many exposed to costly damage. In cities such as Bellaire and West University Place, officials are working to close that...
