The US is going through one of its most challenging phases. Unemployment is at its peak and people are faltering on mortgage payments. Subsequently banks are taking over the properties and foreclosures have become common. According to Equity Depot report, foreclosures in Atlanta will increase. About 116,905 will come up for foreclosure by 2009, which [...]
The real estate market in most regions in the US is in doldrums. As people falter on mortgage payments, foreclosures have become common. Hence property values in most areas have plummeted. But now according to new statistics available not all regions have suffered. Property values in Marin for instance, have remained stable.
There are many homeowners [...]
Auctions are coming to the rescue of the banks to offload their inventory of foreclosed houses. Rates are being drastically cut but there are risks attached.
A house on Shelby Avenue in East Nashville was up for auction among 30 others. The auction was being conducted by Bob Parks Auction – the company being on a [...]
Previous clients of Joan Ramirez, who is a Staten-island, N.Y.- based real estate broker, surrendered to foreclosure after a prominent institutional lender gave them a mortgage which they could not afford to pay. The mortgage was set up with 100 percent financing through a fixed-rate first mortgage, in conjunction with a [...]
Foreclosures are having a mixed impact on shares at Home Depot and Lowe according to the top executives of both. It is of importance as new data about increasing pace of foreclosures is rolling in. The shares of Home Depot (component of Dow) traded down 3.0% at $22.63. The shares of Lowe fell by 3.4% and traded at $18.97.
The general pattern is that sales of Lowe dropped as foreclosures increased.
Despite the stimulus rolling in, Florida is facing budget crunches and the situation is grim. Although there have been cuts in property taxes, changes in insurance rules as well as foreclosure relief attempts, it is a tough job for budget writers. The boom years have receded to a foggy past.
On Tuesday 3rd March [...]
As winter sets in the shelter are overcrowded with foreclosure evictees. The ordinary American is running out of alternatives, sandwiched by foreclosures and joblessness.
Cindy Almendarez is one of the many who had avoided shelters for the homeless for a long time. She had camped with her children in the basement of a friend and [...]
Foreclosures have led to the sprouting of tent cities for the homeless in Hillsborough. Richard Shuster is one of the inhabitants. He moved in here about eight months ago and terms it his “gated community”. It has been so named because of the wilting gate between some thickets that leads to the site of his [...]
