HGTV Home Buying Host & Author Suzanne Whang to Promote National Homeownership Month and Home Loan Learning Center Website for Mortgage Bankers Association

HGTV Home Buying Host & Author Suzanne Whang to Promote National Homeownership Month and Home Loan Learning Center Website for Mortgage Bankers Association

HGTV 'House Hunters' Host To Offer Tips On Home Buying

WASHINGTON, May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced today that Suzanne Whang, HGTV television host and home-buying author, has agreed to promote MBA's Home Loan Learning Center (http://www.homeloanlearningcenter.com/) this June during National Homeownership Month.

Ms. Whang will provide consumers with important tips and information about the home-buying process and will guide them through the tools and other critical information on homeloanlearningcenter.com, MBA's unbiased consumer education website which arms consumers with the information they need to become informed home buyers.

Whang is the author of Suzanne Whang's Guide To Happy Home Buying which Meredith Publishing released last fall. For the past five seasons she has been the host of the #1 show on HGTV, "House Hunters," which has just been renewed for two more years. Her past television credits include Dick Clark's co-host on "Bloopers" and Tom Bergeron's co-host on "FOX After Breakfast."

Ms. Whang is a Yale graduate with a Masters in Psychology from Brown University. She is also an accomplished and successful actor with a recurring role on the NBC-TV series "Las Vegas." Over the past few years she has appeared on "Cold Case," "Nip/Tuck," "Two & A Half Men," "NYPD Blue," "The Practice," "Boston Legal" and numerous other shows. Her website is: http://www.suzannewhang.com/.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 500,000 people in virtually every community in the country. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the association works to ensure the continued strength of the nation's residential and commercial real estate markets; to expand homeownership and extend access to affordable housing to all Americans. MBA promotes fair and ethical lending practices and fosters professional excellence among real estate finance employees through a wide range of educational programs and a variety of publications. Its membership of over 3,000 companies includes all elements of real estate finance: mortgage companies, mortgage brokers, commercial banks, thrifts, Wall Street conduits, life insurance companies and others in the mortgage lending field. For additional information, visit MBA's website: http://www.mortgagebankers.org/.

About Home Loan Learning Center:

HomeLoanLearningCenter.com, the Mortgage Bankers Association's unbiased consumer education information site, is committed to empowering the consumer to make informed financial decisions through access to financial education. Visit Home Loan Learning Center at:

http://www.homeloanlearningcenter.com/.

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Source: Mortgage Bankers Association

CONTACT: Aleis Stokes, +1-202-557-2741, astokes@mortgagebankers.org, or
Carolyn Kemp, +1-202-557-2727, ckemp@mortgagebankers.org, both for Mortgage
Bankers Association

Web site:

http://www.homeloanlearningcenter.com/
http://www.suzannewhang.com/

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