Real Estate Journal

A report released last year said new HUD data show that the program was able to help 33,000 homeowners in preventing foreclosure in three months. They also foresaw the possibility to help more than 50,000 more by end of year. Tis will help families to avoid foreclosure. A huge number of homeowners are refinancing their [...]

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With home sales slowing to a crawl and buyers unable to qualify for mortgages, some home builders are struggling to keep their operations going. Already, Levitt Corp.’s Levitt & Sons unit has filed for bankruptcy-court protection, and a second builder, Tousa Inc., said it is considering several “in and out of court restructuring and reorganization” [...]

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In order to survive, one must adapt. This is one thing the insurance agents of today have learned. What they used to keep near their chests are now out in the open for everyone to see. They have now freely posted previously withheld information in the Internet. This information provides the brokers with just enough [...]

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The FBI has released alarming information regarding real estate fraud and a majority of these cases are related to identity theft. This comes as no surprise for as people get more desperate, they’ll try anything for an easy buck. Real estate fraud has become such a major crime that the FBI has taken notice and [...]

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Four people involved in a Ponzi scam that defrauded over a thousand people are being persecuted for their crimes for their involvement in real estate fraud and many other similar offenses. The Metro Home Scam took on the money of investors promising revenues unheard of in the market which instead went into their pockets, funding [...]

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People have been wondering when the housing market would recover and February gave them the figures they were expecting, on the positive. That lasted a few weeks then the downward spiral continued on its cycle of price drops. Experts are saying that the market is beginning to stabilize a bit with prices not going down [...]

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There are several issues that allows industry experts to make accurate trends analysis when it comes to property values. People have been used to so reliable trending that today has all but vanished. Even experts agree that the market is still quite volatile and making assumptions based on economic data which continues to be on [...]

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The collapse of the housing market last year that triggered the economic recession has left many people without jobs and sources of income. The effects of the housing market as reverberated all over ht world and with nobody buying houses, financial institutions that have stakes in foreclosed properties cannot sell them without any buyers and [...]

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It sure would be if you manage to always hit the earnings button. But as we all know, this always isn’t the case for there are too many hidden factors that may affect the outcome of any project, but hey that’s part of the business. Recognizing a property that has potential is the first key [...]

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Image Source: www.energycheckup.com When going to buy or sell a home, your first step should be finding an honest and hard-working realtor. You can find a real estate agent by keeping an eye out for advertisements, calling your local real estate broker, or through the internet. The role of a real estate agent is to [...]

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