Fitch Rates GSAA Home Equity Trust $450.96MM Series 2007-9 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Fitch rates GSAA Home Equity Trust's residential mortgage pass-through certificates, series 2007-9, as follows: $426,462,302 classes A1A, A1B, A2A, A2B, A3A, A3B, A-PO and A-IO senior certificates 'AAA'; $10,662,000 class B-1 'AA'; $5,898,000 class B-2 'A'; $2,495,000 class B-3 'BBB'; $2,949,000 class B-4 'BB'; $2,495,000 class B-5 'B.'

Home equity loan or refinance? (Bankrate.com)
Dear Dr. Don, The appraised value on my home after renovations is more than my current mortgage. What are my options as far as the equity and/or refinancing?

US home-loan crisis might halt Mboweni (Sunday Times)
Experts say SA Reserve Bank could even drop interest rates next week . Local households may be spared another 0.5 percent interest rate increase next week, thanks to the US sub-prime crisis, First National Bank's property strategist John Loos argues in an economic report.

Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Move Lower (FinanzNachrichten)
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fixed mortgage rates declined, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate falling to 6.42 percent.

Subprime defaults fastest in decade (Financial Times)
US subprime mortgages written during the first half of the year are going delinquent at the fastest rate this decade, according to a report from Moody's on Thursday that analyses home loans used to back bonds.