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• Ditech and GMAC Stimulus Plan Mortgage Refinance Options

  
  All Home Loan Info — Authority: 131
  Ditech and GMAC have been approved to offer new stimulus plan options to help homeowners get a mortgage refinance or modification . This stimulus plan has over $75 billion in funding, all of which is to help struggling homeowners. Ditech and GMAC are now offering new options to homeowners to prevent them from losing ...
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• Judge Erases $525,000 Mortgage in Long Island

  
  CHESSNOID — Authority: 437
  This is just one of the stories where the big banks lose and the little guy wins.  I thought it was worth sharing.  This is an example of  a bailed out bank just being evil.  We should have never bailed out any banks with Taxpayer money and this is a good example of why bailout s are bad Cheers! ...
  13 hours ago

• U.S. new home sales climb to highest level in a year, led by the South

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Real Estate New homes sales surged 6.2% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 430,000, the U.S. Commerce Department announced Wednesday , as buyers rushed to take advantage of what many believed would be the end of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers on October ...
  15 hours ago

• House of cards: Home prices may be headed back down

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Economy , Wells Fargo & Co. , Real Estate Everyone heaved a sigh of relief as the latest S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price survey showed a price increase for the fifth straight month. Home prices may finally have hit bottom, but Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy is not so ...
  16 hours ago

• Property Investment – Apartments

  
  World News — Authority: 463
  Houses as investments make pretty good financial sense over the long term (houses tend to double in price every 8 to 10 years) but what about Apartments?
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• Home Sales Run Rampant: Prices Lag Behind

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 678
  At least for the moment, homebuyers across the country appear to be in a state (perhaps even a nation) of euphoria. Average numbers of homes sold across every region of the United States leaped by more than 20% over last year. They also moved up more than 10% over last month’s numbers of homes sold, although average ...
  17 hours ago

• Almost 1 In 4 Mortgages Now Underwater

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 574
  While I was driving back and forth all over the Chicagoland area today, the local radio stations were talking about rising home prices, increased home sales, and the beginning (even continuation) of a housing recovery. Some people must be buying into this sentiment (or at least, fantasizing they were re-living the ...
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• For the U.S. housing market, the roller-coaster ride continues

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  Many of the latest housing-industry numbers portray a still-battered market, though some of the housing news offers modest reasons to be optimistic. Sales of existing homes climbed 10 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted rate of 6.10 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. That ...
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• 25% of Mortgages Underwater

  
  Mortgage Rate News — Authority: 466
  Image via WikipediaAs the housing market continues to drag its feet toward recovery, there is increasing concern about the number of mortgages underwater. CNN Money reports on the number of homes that are suffering from negative equity:Almost 10.7 million U.S. mortgages were “underwater” as of September, said ...
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• More home foreclosures could be on the horizon

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 678
  The housing crisis isnt over yet. Nearly one in every four mortgages are upside down, meaning homeowners owe more money than their home is worth, according to a report released Tuesday.
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• Home prices rise for 4th month in a row (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 168
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• Home sales at 2-1/2 year high

  
  Positive Economic News — Authority: 123
  By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of previously owned U.S. homes jumped last month to their highest level in more than 2-1/2 years, but a fall in an economic gauge was a reminder that recovery from recession would be patchy. Sales of existing home sales surged a record 10.1 percent month-over-month in ...
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• Mortgage approvals edge up

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Mortgage approvals only increased by 165 in October, but the figure has almost doubled over the past year, the BBA says The number of mortgages approved by banks for house purchase rose by just 165 in October, but is almost double the figure for the same month last year, the British Bankers Association (BBA) said ...
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• Monopoly board homes for sale

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Berkeley Homes Whitechapel is no longer as cheap as Monopoly suggests (£60) – and the latest development to spring up in the area proves it. Apartments in the luxury Sugar House start from £485,000 and go up to more than £1m for the penthouse pads. The gorgeous stone-carved grade II-listed building at 99 ...
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• Interest rates, home values compel even single income households

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 570
  Unemployment in the United States may be on the rise, but low interest rates and more affordable housing appears to be encouraging households with only one income to jump into the market, says Stéfane Marion, the chief economist at National Bank Financial. Home resales in the United States rose 0.3% in September to ...
  2 days ago

• US stocks gain on surprise home sales recovery

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New York, Nov 24 (DPA) US stocks surged Monday after the release of some surprisingly buoyant data on home sales.Existing home sales surged to 6.1 million units in October, the highest annualised rate since February 2007 and up 10.1 percent from September, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).The ...
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• The first downturn of this depression is still continuing.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  For the great majority of Americans, especially Middle Class Americans , the first downturn is still continuing. For millions who have no jobs, vanishing savings, negligible income, no credit and cannot afford to even rent a house (and must live with family or friends) the downturn has become a depression. For such ...
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• President’s Home Modification Plan: 6 Things You Want To Know

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 148
  At the heart of the President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to rescue the housing market is the notion that restructuring distressed homes will keep struggling homeowner’s in their homes and help insert a floor beneath plummeting property values. With $75 billion dedicated to reworking troubled loans, that’s a ...
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• Tax Credit Expansion to Boost the Economy

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 484
  It’s no secret that the tax credit for homebuyers was extended on November 6 as President Obama signed it into law. To most of us this is old news, but the National Association of Home Builders is spreading the word about the extension, as well as the details, since it has been expanded to include [...]
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• Don’t Risk Missing Out On Historic Mortgage Interest Rates

  
  Mario Greco — Authority: 124
  Something rather amazing happened earlier this month: The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.83 percent. That’s the lowest this figure has been in six months . This rate is also barely above the record low of 4.61 percent that we saw in March. And even if you didn’t take out a ...
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