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Owning Fresno bank owned homes is now a better option than renting, based on current home prices and rental costs in the area. Based on a study by a research firm, Fresno ranked fourth in a chart of cities nationwide where it is cheaper to purchase a house than rent one. For instance, one could b...

Some of the private universities and colleges in Massachusetts offer luxury homes for rent to their presidents as part of their compensation packages. The estimated monthly rent for the homes of college presidents were revealed following the Internal Revenue Service’s request to higher education ...

Distressed listings of home lots in Tucson are in demand again, as homebuilders prepare for the recovery of the housing market and for the expected growth in demand for new homes. Recently, home builders like Meritage Homes, Maracay Homes and Centex Homes of PulteGroup have been constantly analyz...

Buyers can still buy bank foreclosure homes in Marietta at price levels in the pre-boom years of 2002 to 2003, according to local realtors. Since foreclosure filings are still surging and the current foreclosure inventory is still high in Marietta and in other parts of Cobb County, price levels a...

Florida foreclosure listings are still surging dramatically. In May, bank owned listings spiked by 81 percent over the year to a total of 10,941 repossessed homes. The REO number also marked an increase of 18 percent from April and a sharp jump of 27 percent from March. The rates of increases in ...

Colorado Springs home auctions slowed in May, but more foreclosures are expected in the coming months as default rates continued to increase in the area. Based on records from the public trustee office of El Paso County, new foreclosure filings climbed up slightly in May, affirming earlier conten...

House prices are expected to rise again as they did in April as the number of Memphis bank owned homes dropped in May. Total foreclosure filings decreased in May to a total of 1,547, down by 12 percent from April and by 3.6 percent from May 2009. The foreclosure rate also dropped to one foreclosu...

Land foreclosure listings in Huntsville have been declining as more property owners are able to rescue their distressed home lots and as more developers find ways to refinance their project loans. Some online foreclosure listings do not even have foreclosed lots to offer, although they have plent...

Foreclosure and bankruptcy homes sales have been surging in affluent neighborhoods in Aurora, based on observation by county assessors of Arapahoe. Aurora is a home rule city that covers areas of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. The assessors said they do not monitor the incomes of previous ...

Home and condo foreclosures in California again accounted for the biggest percentage of all filings in the country in May. The 72,030 homes in California that got hit with filings made up 22.3 percent of the 322,920 filings posted nationwide. Those looking to buy foreclosures for sale can find pl...