Rosemary Murphy

Next foreclosure wave building with defaults on xed-rate loans

Back in 2000, long before subprime lending to credit-risky homebuyers overheated the housing market, Rosemary Murphy used her financial good standing to pay for a house the old-fashioned way.
 

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Rosemary Murphy
BornJanuary 13, 1927 (1927-01-13) (age 82)
Munich, Germany