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BOA Transfers Billions Home Loans to Fannie Mae
If you've been keeping an eye on recent developments in the housing market, you may recall news of peculiar deal that was struck between Bank Of America and Fannie Mae in August of this year.
Who is responsible for the 2008 Financial Crisis?
Many companies and individuals are now picking up the pieces and trying to move on from the financial crisis of 2008. Looking back, one is now able to confront
Real Estate Agents Loan Officer Charged
While we are busy running our companies or processing loans, fraudsters are spending all their time - and I do mean all, as in every waking second - thinking of
California looks to alter 1031 Exchange programs
California has never met a tax it didn't like to impose on its citizens. Even when the economy is in massive recession, and house prices in the state are falling drastically,
Real estate companies booming in spite of slow rebound
 Minneapolis, November, 2010. The burst of the United States housing bubble in 2008 affected not only house values, but had a binding consequence for the countr
Existing Home Sales Data Makes a Fool of Homeowners
The September Existing Home Sales report was released yesterday and the data was promising. It showed a month-over-month jump of 10%
$900,000 for a 3-bedroom...in Haiti?
Nine months after the schoolteacher's concrete home collapsed in front of his wife and 4-year-old son, the family and three in-laws are stuck under a plastic tarp that pours down water when it rains.
More than1 in 3 say it's OK to walk away
The majority of Americans, say it's "unacceptable" for homeowners to stop making their mortgage payments and abandon their homes, but more than a third, 36 percent, say "walking away" is OK.
Real estate investors beware!
he developing situation concerning mortgage and foreclosure fraud is going to cause problems for nearly everyone involved in even the slightest way.
Collection companies may be next to take advantage of RE
Our current real estate downturn has led to a demand for new services that are taking advantage of the situation.
Existing home sales plunge to 15-year low
Existing home sales in July plummeted to a the lowest level since 1995, as the expired tax credit that helped to fuel housing earlier in the year and shift som
Home builders continue to struggle
The expiration of the tax credit for home buyers and sluggish economy activity continue to haunt home builders, as evidenced by the latest survey of builder sen
Help for "underwater"homeowners about to surface
Related Articles Need for 2nd stimulus grows as GDP declines Stimulate housing to spur the economy By York Van Nixon III  While numbers vary, there is widespread agreement in the housing and banking industry on there being at least one in …
Californians poured into Texas from 2005 to 2008
Are you noticing a lot of California license plates as you’re cruising along Texas roadways? Well, drivers of many of those California-plated cars aren’t tourists. More than 200,000 Californians moved to Texas between 2005 and 2008, …
San Francisco plans more real estate taxes
Today most cities, counties and states are wringing their hands hoping to develop enticing incentives to lure businesses and jobs from other competitor government jurisdictions.?They offer tempting tax-free or tax-reduced …
The "And then what?" effect
So what did all that effort and expense accomplish? anon Way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, televisions were black-and-white, and telephone deregulation was a gleam in Ronald Reagan's eye, there was this ad that Western Electric, the …
Foreclosures, REO properties still permeate local market
Washington DC area foreclosures are ticking up and the area housing market is still saturated with bank-owned properties...
Feds bailing out Washington DC area RE
The federal government is riding to the rescue of D.C.-area landlords, scooping up office space and staving off a commercial real estate collapse that has many analysts worried, a new report finds.
Distressed Las Vegas Housing Reached Bottom?
Has it reached the "proverbial bottom?" "Modest movement in inventory and pricing suggests the housing market may be seeking out the proverbial bottom," concluded the report by Las Vegas-based Applied Analytics.
Obama administration prods to modify real estate short sale
Hark, the herald angels sing! Or, it just might be?the sounds of presidential daughters Sasha and Malia Obama singing away as they work overtime in the basement of the White House, printing more money for yet another attempt to prevent sales …
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