MMIS and Interest.com recent releases
| Interest.com Helps Consumers Tap Educational Mortgage Info Faster Villa Park, Ill., Tuesday, August 30, 2005 -- Interest.com, a leading mortgage and personal finance Internet marketplace connecting consumers with lenders, said Tuesday it has launched a variety of new initiatives to make it even easier and faster for consumers to find educational mortgage and related information they need to make important financial decisions. A redesigned home page brings more "hot-topic" features to consumers' fingertips, including unbiased, balanced information about newer specialty home loans such as interest-only and reverse mortgages, and unveils a one-of-a-kind mortgage blog, a revamped mortgage finance forum and a weekly compendium of mortgage rates, charts and market action called Moneytalks. Interest.com also said it has launched a partnership with Chicago-based online forms provider Socrates to offer consumers low-cost, do-it-yourself kits containing various legal forms they need to simplify and organize their personal financial lives. These self-help legal papers and guides let consumers buy or sell real estate by owner, draw up simple estate or living wills, repair their credit rating or even process a non-contested divorce -- all without retaining a lawyer. About Interest.com: Interest.com is an Internet finance marketplace educating and connecting consumers to quality lenders. Since 1994, Interest.com has provided the tools and information consumers need to make the best financial decisions. Features such as financial calculators, mortgage charts, consumer articles and e-mail newsletters let users to interact with our site. More than 300 newspaper publications and 65 partner mortgage centers - including many of the nation's top 10 newspapers - rely on Interest.com as the source and publisher of financial rates and information. |
| Questions? Please contact Laura Jacobs, senior editor, (630) 782-4386 MediaRelations@interest.com |