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...A law firm consultant said a managing partner of a top firm once called his Newport, Rhode Island, holiday home, “the house that Citi built”, because of the deal he got on his mortgage....
...As mortgage rates hover around 6 per cent, nearly 70 per cent of Manhattan homes purchased in the final quarter of 2023 were bought without a mortgage, according to Pamela Liebman, the chief executive of...
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