Tampa Foreclosed Homes for Sale Tracked Thru City Registry

Tampa foreclosed homes for sale will be tracked by a city registry that will be set up after city officials passed an ordinance requiring mortgage lenders to register their foreclosure filings. City records show...

Dallas and Fort Worth Foreclosures Exceeded 61,000 This Year

Dallas and Fort Worth foreclosures surpassed 61,000 residential units this year, according to a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association. The delinquency rate also increased to 9.6 percent of all mortgage loans in the metro area. " Dallas and Fort Worth foreclosures...

Jacksonville Foreclosed Homes Still Affecting Price Trend

Jacksonville foreclosed homes dropped in number in October, but they still influenced the trend of house prices in the area. The median price for single-family homes in Jacksonville dropped to $147,200 in October. " Jacksonville foreclosed homes decreased in number in...

Dallas Foreclosures for Sale Hinders Full Market Recovery

Dallas foreclosures for sale are still clogging the housing market and pulling down home prices and values. This trend prevents the housing market from obtaining full recovery. " Dallas foreclosures for sale continue to clog the market, dragging down home prices and values....

Why Obama's Housing Rescue Hasn't Prevented Record Foreclosures

" After taking withering criticism for the Department-of-Motor-Vehicles pace of its initial efforts to keep struggling borrowers out of foreclosure, the Obama administration proudly announced last week that it had hit its goal of 500,000 trial loan modifications almost a...

Federal Program Helps Buying Bank Foreclosures in Delaware

Buying bank foreclosures has never been made easy in Delaware. A federal program gives incentives to Delawareans to buy foreclosed homes. " The federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program has been helping people in...

Demand for Las Vegas Foreclosure Homes Remains Strong

Last month, the housing market pace slowed down in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, industry experts said that demand for Las Vegas foreclosure homes remains strong with sales 27 percent higher compared with August the...

Charlotte Foreclosure Homes Rising, TARP Not Helping

The number of Charlotte foreclosure homes rose another record high in August. Industry experts said that the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) failed to prevent thousands of homeowners in North Carolina from losing their properties to foreclosures. "...

Foreclosed Filings Up in Indiana, North Carolina

The states of Indiana and North Carolina saw their foreclosed filings jumped last month. The spikes indicated that foreclosures are being worsened by the rising unemployment rate. " Many states saw their foreclosed filings jumped in numbers last month. Two of the states that...

Bank Foreclosure Listings on the Rise in Vermont

The Bank Foreclosure Listings in Vermont increased in May compared to the same month figures the previous year. However, state officials claimed that Vermont is better off than other states in terms of foreclosure rates."Vermont recorded an increase in the number of...

Layoffs Increase Foreclosed Houses in Minnesota Counties

Joblessness has been the major reason for the rising number of foreclosed houses in St. Cloud, Minnesota and in other parts of Stearns and Benton. Local governments have been seeking funds to buy and repair foreclosed houses."As layoffs continue in the Minnesota city of St....

Illinois Gov Quinn Fights Problem of Foreclosed Homes

Illinois homeowners worried about their houses becoming foreclosed homes can take some relief from their governor’s efforts. Governor Quinn has just signed a law amending the state’s home foreclosure law,...

Saint Petersburg Pushes Up Florida’s Foreclosures by State

Foreclosed homes in neighborhoods in Saint Petersburg have put Floridaforeclosures by state with 385,309 residential properties with foreclosure filings, according to foreclosure tracking firm RealtyTrac. It also had the second among the top three in rankings of foreclosures...

New York City Likely to Feel Foreclosure Effects in 2009

New York City had several factors in its favor that protected it from the foreclosure wave that hit hard many other cities in 2008, such as those in California and other Sunbelt States. New York City no longer has...

Florida Governor Crist Backtracks on Foreclosure Moratorium

Florida Governor Charlie Crist has taken back his proposal of suspending foreclosures across the state during the holidays after meeting with Alex Sanchez, the president of the Florida Bankers Association. "Sanchez has apparently explained the position of the banking industry...

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