Builders group sees pickup in housing this year
The U.S. housing market will begin to mount a turnaround this year, building toward a solid recovery in 2013, according to a forecast issued Wednesday by the chief economist of a homebuilding industry trade group.
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Bank of America, Wells and Chase pay homeowners to avoid foreclosures
In the aftermath of the historic housing bubble, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase are among the mortgage servicers offering large cash incentives for troubled homeowners to give up their homes without going through foreclosure.
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Number Of Homes In Foreclosure Down
The number of homes in foreclosure shrunk by 130,000, or 8.4%, in 2011, according to a report from CoreLogic, an economic research firm.
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AG: RI will sign foreclosure abuse settlement
State Attorney General Peter Kilmartin says he plans to sign a tentative nationwide settlement with the country’s largest mortgage companies over foreclosure abuses, a deal that could bring millions of dollars to Rhode Island.
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Analysis: Banks largely reserved for U.S. m…
As the nation’s five largest mortgage lenders edge close to a $25 billion settlement over foreclosure abuses, it’s becoming clear that the deal will have little or no impact on their future bottom lines.
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Occupy Nashville asks bank to stop foreclosure
One of the great benefits of my avocation as a food writer of some local repute is that I am… NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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More US states to join foreclosure-abuse deal
Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say.
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More states to join foreclosure-abuse deal
Arizona and Florida will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say.
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DocX faces forgery charges over foreclosures
The New York Times reports .A grand jury in Boone County, Mo., handed up an indictment Friday accusing DocX, one of the largest companies that provided home foreclosure services to lenders across the nation, of 136 counts of forgery in the preparation of documents used to evict financially strained borrowers from their homes, the Times [...]
Pinole good Samaritan faces foreclosure
Like the biblical good Samaritan, Brian Burns of Pinole stopped to help an injured traveler.
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Texas Squatter With $16 McMansion Kicked Out After 8 Months
Kenneth Robinson has finally been kicked out of the $340,000 home that he had lived in since June for $16. Robinson, 51, lived on Waterford Drive in Flower Mound, Texas, but he did not own or rent the home he claimed he had a right to live in.
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New foreclosure filings up
The total number of new foreclosure filings for January was up in Southwest Florida, indicating a reversal in the downward trend the area had enjoyed a year ago.
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Bank of America’s Towering Symbol of Foreclosures
NEW YORK — You don’t need to be a poet to find a metaphor in the foreclosure of Bank of America Bank of America has come to represent the U.S. property bust more than any other institution, so it is only fitting that a 55-story tower that bears its name–the tallest in the Southeast, according [...]
Foreclosure Deal: Closer, But Not There Yet
States have until the close of the business day to agree to the latest draft deal aimed at relieving homeowners struggling with mortgages bigger than their home’s value.
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Fannie Mae turned a ‘willful blind eye’ to warnings two years before it collapsed
US mortgage giant Fannie Mae ignored a series of warnings about how irresponsibly it was run years before the housing market crash, claims a campaigner.
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Notice of Substitute Trustee’s Foreclosure . . ,
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 12994 11-SP-724 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by ARTHUR H. PATELOS, dated March 1, 2007 and recorded on March 2, 2007, Document No.
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New York Sues Banks Over Foreclosures
The New York attorney general sued some of the nation’s biggest banks on Friday, accusing them of unlawful and deceptive practices for relying on a private electronic registry that tracks mortgages.
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Putting our faith in NGOs the way to go
Here’s the truth. It couldn’t have been a very good political fundraiser: None of us can now recall who was speaking.
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States Near Landmark Settlement on Foreclosures
With a deadline looming on Monday for state officials to sign onto a landmark multibillion-dollar settlement to address foreclosure abuses, the Obama administration is close to winning support from crucial states that would significantly expand the breadth of the deal.
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Foreclosures at the high end increase
The housing crisis, which first devastated borrowers who purchased lower-cost homes with subprime loans, has caught up with people whose wealth helped them hang onto their houses longer.
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Does O.C. have foreclosures shortage?
We’re not talking about the loss of homes to lenders rather shoppers’ curious desire for these properties once they’re repossessed by bankers.
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What the Cooks see when working foreclosures
The number of U.S. homeowners who were put on notice for being behind on their mortgage payments fell in May 2011 to the lowest level since 2006, the result of a slowing housing market and lingering delays in banks’ foreclosure process.
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Forbes: Miami is the most miserable U.S. city
Forbes magazine has named Miami the most miserable city in the United States by analyzing factors including crime and unemployment.
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Volusia, Flagler coasts fare better in foreclosures
The data in this story provided by national real estate research firm RealtyTrac show the number of properties with filings and not the number of actual filings because any one property could have multiple filings against it and skew the data, a company spokeswoman said.
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GOP candidates shy away from Nevada housing crisis
Las Vegas — As Joseph and Christina Hetherton listened to Newt Gingrich speak this week at the Las Vegas factory where Joseph was laid off last summer, they thought about how their home could go into foreclosure at the end of the month – and how nothing they’ve heard from presidential candidates in town for [...]
