Archive for March, 2008

Foreclosure

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008


Avoid Foreclosure By Watching For The Signs
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Can’t Sell Your Home? Try Something Else
Street.Com - If you’re stuck with a piece of property you can’t sell, there’s still hope. Instead of risking foreclosure and ruining market has slowed considerably,” says Maurice Ortiz, marketing director for The Apartment People , a full-service real estate
Source: www.thestreet.com

Waves from Wall St. engulf most everyone
Boston Globe - Lynch recently organized a foreclosure avoidance workshop in Randolph that drew about 400 people. agency Standard & Poor’s in New York, citing its similarity to the early 1990s recession driven by financial and real estate
Source: www.boston.com

Bidding for a bargain on the foreclosure auction block
Los Angeles Times - buyers and real estate agents Real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson put on the event, promising an “exceptional inventory clearance” with “incredible deals.” The Beverly Hills-based company holds foreclosure auctions around the
Source: www.latimes.com

HUD chief to address foreclosure forum
Rocky Mountain News - The head of HUD is scheduled to be in Denver on Tuesday as a keynote speaker at the “Stop Foreclosure Now!” free forum that Peter Lansing, president of Univesal Lending, said the higher limits in the Denver area will help the local real estate market
Source: www.rockymountainnews.com

More in foreclosure choose to walk away
San Francisco Gate - Customers pay $995 for an advocate to answer questions via phone and e-mail, a letter to their lender to stop dunning phone calls, consultations with a real estate attorney and a CPA, and assistance cleaning up their credit after foreclosure.
Source: www.sfgate.com

Financial fixes yet to hit home
Inside Bay Area - There are a lot of people hurting who got themselves into that situation where they might be facing a foreclosure, but the Some residential real estate professionals point to the disconnect between the Federal Funds rate, a short-term interest rate
Source: www.insidebayarea.com

Surviving the taxing time of the year
Daily Herald - If you got caught up in last year’s real estate mess and lost your home to foreclosure, you’d normally be taxed on the amount of your debt that was forgiven.
Source: www.heraldextra.com

Stopping foreclosure

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008


What To Do When Foreclosure Happens

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Denver Post - Anderson, a real estate auctioneer and member of the National Association of Realtors and the National Auctioneers Association, predicts auctions may make up as much as 15 percent to 20 percent of all real estate sales given nationwide foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Los Angeles Times - buyers and real estate agents Real estate services and investment firm Kennedy Wilson put on the event, promising an “exceptional inventory clearance” with “incredible deals.” The Beverly Hills-based company holds foreclosure auctions around the More Foreclosure News

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - the North Lauderdale homes sold in 2007 went through foreclosure — the highest percentage of any city in Broward County, according to BlockShopper.com, a company that reports on real estate sales. There are about 683 houses in the pre-foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Foreclosure services

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008


Foreclosure Alternatives

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Foreclosure Network USA Offers Real Estate Expertise and Opportunities
Onlypunjab.com - Foreclosure Network USA, the real estate investment business led by industry-renowned Eric Dalius, is offering unheard of access to a network of industry professionals and seminars to enable new investors to the real estate market the opportunity for
Source: onlypunjab.com

Housing market ripe for buy
Herald News - JOLIET — It is a good time to be a first-time homebuyer. With national fears of a recession and the growing foreclosure rate, real estate professionals assured potential buyers of the housing market’s vitality during a home-buying seminar Saturday
Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com

U.S. foreclosures jump 60 percent
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - seller of foreclosure data, said Thursday in a statement. Nevada, California and Florida had the highest rates. “With declining prices, there is a pervasive problem of not being able to refinance or sell,” said Susan Wachter, professor of real estate
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

How bad is the mortgage crisis going to get?
CNN Money - One of the criticisms of Alan Greenspan is that his rate cuts helped cause two bubbles, first tech, then real estate. Even if every subprime borrower walks away from his house and a lot of money is lost in foreclosure, it’s hard to get numbers
Source: money.cnn.com

Any estate foreclosed foreclosure handbook in insider locating market pre pre properties purchasing real secret

Monday, March 17th, 2008


Foreclosure Scams

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Scoop - loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure the banks that had run amok, Bush’s regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop More Foreclosure News

San Francisco Gate - While going into foreclosure is free - you just stop paying your mortgage - Jon Maddox, co-founder and senior advocate at You Walk Away, said the company provides emotional, practical and legal advice that makes the process more palatable. More Foreclosure News

Palm Beach Post - El Dorado Hills is about 30 miles east of Sacramento and used to be known as just a bus stop between the San Francisco Stockton’s metropolitan area had the second-highest foreclosure rate in the U.S. last year and again in January. More Foreclosure News

Buffalo News - The lawsuit by The Huntingdon Council of Co-Owners seeks more than $100,000 in unpaid fees from Linda Lay or foreclosure of her Stop the presses Former Judge Tills resigns amid FBI prostitution investigation Long-running Ulrich’s Tavern in financial More Foreclosure News

Modesto Bee - They came to the foreclosure prevention workshop because they want to keep their home. An early morning estimate of one hundred she won’t be able to keep the home, Puducay said, her lender offered to help her save some of her credit and to stop the More Foreclosure News

Boston Globe - If you’re thinking of purchasing a vacation home on Cape Cod any time soon, stop. to data from the Warren Group, which tracks New England real estate transactions. (These figures do not include foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Foreclosure

Sunday, March 16th, 2008


Compare Foreclosure Options

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KGUN 9 - as many as 800 dogs found living filthy conditions in an Avra Valley home. Could authorities have put a stop to it Pets: Silent Victims of Foreclosure More Foreclosure News

North County Times - Times editorial from Feb. 28 supporting the expansion of the Wal-Mart on University into a so-called Supercenter (”Stop Whether you’re caught up in this sub-prime mortgage disaster, the victim of falling house values and even facing foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Inside Bay Area - circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumbling to a stop at The foreclosure epidemic that has infected Cleveland’s neighborhoods started earlier and has been even more punishing than the More Foreclosure News

OpEdNews.com - The hatred of homosexuals will not stop the flow of millions of jobs leaving our shores and certainly will not help save homes from sliding into the foreclosure abyss. More Foreclosure News

Amador Ledger-Dispatcher - But, she said, based on media information, it appears his property is in foreclosure. “I don’t know how that affects the final EIR,” North said. “If the project comes to a stop because of litigation, what will we be left with? More Foreclosure News

HometownAnnapolis.com - Preventing a foreclosure is far more effective than trying to stop one already in progress, he said. “It’s easier to deal with the lender than it is to deal with the attorneys,” he said. More Foreclosure News

Foreclosure home mortgage second

Sunday, March 16th, 2008


Refinancing May Avoid Foreclosure

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Chronicle-Telegram - However, the sale will not stop the foreclosure complaint. Meckler said it’s up to the bank to decide if they will hold off until the transaction is complete. More Foreclosure News

American Enterprise Institute - How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis Although bankers sometimes have the incentive to reduce mortgage-loan balances voluntarily in order to avoid a foreclosure, this More Foreclosure News

Austin American-Statesman - Clinton failed to act swiftly to stop Ferraro’s racial rants. But perhaps Clinton got what she wanted: a way of also noted that “California and Florida continue to represent a disproportionate” share of homes put into foreclosure - and More Foreclosure News

KGUN 9 - as many as 800 dogs found living filthy conditions in an Avra Valley home. Could authorities have put a stop to it Pets: Silent Victims of Foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Kait 8 - JONESBORO (KAIT) - With oil at over a hundred dollars a barrel the high prices don’t just stop at the pump. Oil and ROCK (AP) - A California company that tracks home foreclosures says the number of Arkansas homes in some stage of foreclosure More Foreclosure News

Herald Tribune - Last stop before foreclosure The last stop before foreclosure is a short sale — selling a home for less than the mortgage after getting the lender to agree to share the loss. More Foreclosure News

Foreclosed foreclosure mortgage second

Saturday, March 15th, 2008


Deals On Foreclosures

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St. Cloud Times - The other bills require the lenders to let homeowners know of the availability of mortgage foreclosure counseling or authorize a court to stop a foreclosure if the judge finds it to be equitable, or require notice to tenants that the home or More Foreclosure News

New York Daily News - Spitzer was joined by AG Andrew Cuomo and home ownership advocates in announcing his plan to address the foreclosure crisis. Rep. World leaders must stop promoting the sequestering of carbon dioxide produced at coal electric power plants because it More Foreclosure News

WXYZ - Michael Jackson is determined to stop the auction of his old Neverland Ranch home by taking out a loan to cover the money A Jackson family insider insists the singer will avoid foreclosure on Neverland with a new loan, adding the auction “won’t happen More Foreclosure News

American Enterprise Institute - How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis Although bankers sometimes have the incentive to reduce mortgage-loan balances voluntarily in order to avoid a foreclosure, this More Foreclosure News

Nashua Telegraph - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are squaring off over who has the answer to the nation’s spiraling foreclosure crisis. Neither You can’t have a real plan to stop foreclosures if all you’re helping is the banks.” Obama and his policy aides dismiss More Foreclosure News

AZCentral.com - Gerace said, “Just today though she was telling me about properties where we would actually have to deal with lenders because of individuals in foreclosure or having to flip properties.” But she’s not letting this stop her and this is exactly what More Foreclosure News

Leesburg Today - the Land Use Taxation program to charge higher taxes on farms, forests and rural open spaces and that supervisors stop With the foreclosure rate in Loudoun as high as it dragging down property values, the last thing we need is an increase in our More Foreclosure News

Foreclosure list

Saturday, March 15th, 2008


Refinancing May Avoid Foreclosure

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Columbia Star - LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendants for foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Sonya More Foreclosure News

Forbes - markets, the ongoing collapse in housing, and signs that the credit crunch may be spreading beyond residential real estate The Hope Alliance Now initiative claims to have rescued some one million homeowners from foreclosure since its More Foreclosure News

Baltimore Sun - Subprime mortgage lender Fieldstone Investment Corp. of Columbia created the loan program during the real-estate gold rush in If they defaulted, Fieldstone would be more likely to recover its money in a foreclosure. More Foreclosure News

CNBC - “Good” is the operative word in the mortgage market these days. Anything else may simply not be good enough, which is why many borrowers are struggling to do a deal. The number of residential foreclosure filings continues its upward ascent across More Foreclosure News

Mortgage foreclosure

Saturday, March 15th, 2008


Take Advantage Of Foreclosure Lists Online

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WRAPUP 3-U.S. consumers retrench, labor market weak
Reuters - On this front, U.S. home foreclosure filings in February edged down from January but were a whopping 60 percent higher than a year earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
Source: www.reuters.com

U.S. regulators unveil plan to revamp mortgage rules
CNBC - U.S. foreclosure filings in February stood 60 percent higher than their level a year-ago, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
Source: www.cnbc.com

The Many Facets of Foreclosure
Falls Church News-Press - with a 75-percent increase in foreclosure filings from 2006, and a 149-percent increase from 2005, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an on-line real estate tracking company based in Irvine, Calif. Virginia ranks 24th in the nation in rate of foreclosure.
Source: www.fcnp.com

FrontDoor.com, Real Estate Web Site Powered by HGTV, Opens the Door to
Consumer Electronics Net - KNOXVILLE, Tenn., BUSINESS WIRE — Foreclosures are hitting record numbers across the country. To assist homeowners, FrontDoor.com, a new real estate Web site powered by HGTV, is offering a foreclosure guide that provides much needed resources to
Source: www.consumerelectronicsnet.com

Foreclosure Break-Ins On The Rise In North Texas
CBS 11 News - The foreclosure crisis continues. Staggering new numbers show 10 North Texas counties reporting a foreclosure increase in 2008 Real estate agents were quick to point out, that the Dallas area market is holding strong.
Source: cbs11tv.com

Legislators Seek to Stanch Spate of Home Foreclosures
Washington Post - chose to buy a home far beyond their means, gambling on the hope that their home would increase in value the way the real estate market had been,” said Del. Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore), who chairs a committee that oversees some foreclosure bills
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Where To Find Million-Dollar Foreclosures
Forbes - Using RealtyTrac and REOTrans, two companies that track the foreclosure market, Forbes.com looked for million dollar-plus homes in elite neighborhoods around the country that were in any stage of foreclosure or in a real-estate owned (REO) situation
Source: www.forbes.com

Foreclosure law

Saturday, March 15th, 2008


Work With Your Lender To Avoid Foreclosure

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Forbes - the housing sector, which has been in a two-year slump that has seen sales and prices plunge in many formerly hot real estate Nearly 60 percent more U.S. homes faced foreclosure in February than in the same month a year ago, according to a report More Foreclosure News

Forbes - Listings were gathered from RealtyTrac and REOTrans, two firms specializing in foreclosure and real estate owned properties. Here is a sampling of our choices. More Foreclosure News

CNN Money - New foreclosure rescue plan offers ‘Help Now’ Foreclosures up 60% in February The next shoe to drop in housing Mortgage application fees may rise on appraisal reform NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Foreclosure filings nationwide jumped 60% in February More Foreclosure News

New York Daily News - I’m attending a foreclosure seminar next week — will it be a waste of my time? The most important thing is to do some research on real estate values in the area where you’re intending to buy. More Foreclosure News