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Homeowners Drowning in Negative Equity

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article If you have no desire or need to sell your home, then falling home prices are just on paper and likely temporary, right? Depends on how you look at it. Falling … Continue reading

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Remodeling as a Housing Indicator

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article We’re always looking at indicators to see where the housing market is headed, like today’s reading of the Realtors’ “Pending Home Sales Index,” which measures contracts signed for home purchases, hence … Continue reading

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Foreclosure Fight Needs to Find Fast Answers

Page 1 of 4 | Next PageShow Entire Article As federal regulators clamp down on foreclosure procedures at the big banks, and the government sets new lender requirements for risk retention in residential mortgages, the cry from the industry is … Continue reading

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Robo-Settlement Snags

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article Word was last week that federal banking regulators, not the state attorneys general, were going to announce some kind of “enforcement action” against 14 big banks/servicers in the so-called “robo-signing” foreclosure … Continue reading

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Even Short-Term FHA Shutdown Will Hit Housing

Page 1 of 2 | Next PageShow Entire Article I was hoping not to have to write this particular piece, but it seems I may have no choice, so here we go with housing. What happens to today’s housing market … Continue reading

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