"Voluntary efforts to keep families in their homes have failed," said Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). Mortgage delinquencies are rising and the voluntary HAMP program implemented so far is slow to repair the damage. Mortgage Assistance Programs have been created to weather the mortgage storm, but lit
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10/01/2009
MLS is coming.. REALTORS and REAL ESTATE BLOGGERS, here is an interesting read from the people over at BizJournals. Apparently, new real estate blogging guidelines are being introduced by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service that will protect homeowners from other agents writing/blogging about
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09/29/2009
I found a very interesting article from Time.com dating back to 2005 detailing the frenzy that was theAmerican Housing Market. Reading the article, it's clear that things were certainly a "party" in every sense of the word compared to today. Although a long read, it's amazing to see how times hav
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09/25/2009
The Housing in Crisis report showed that at the end of 2008, we had an excess of 5 million vacant homes on the market (excluding vacation homes and foreclosures). During this second quarter, about 18.7 million vacant housing units remained on the market (including foreclosures, residences for sa
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09/25/2009
As reported in the Taipei Times, Economist and Ph D. Robert Shiller states that faulty models are one of the culprits that led to the lack of forecasting of the financial crisis by economists. Shiller states these models lack the study of economic bubbles necessary to prevent crashes like our r
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09/22/2009
On track to cost the government $15 Billion, the $8,000 Tax-Credit implemented last winter has undeniably stimulated the housing industry. Now, with the November 30th deadline looming, questions on whether the housing market can survive without it are surfacing. With Real Estate being Cyclical, S
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09/17/2009
The Federal Department Insurance Corp. has recently encouraged acquirers of failed banks to offer forbearance to unemployed or underemployed borrowers through a new program. We will take a look at this FDIC program and compare it to the AccuriZ Mortgage Assistance Program (MAP) created months pri
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09/16/2009
Over the past three months of actually being "active" on ActiveRain, I've received some pretty great comments on my blog from some pretty great people. As AccuriZ strives to provide real, accurate property data and great plans and alternatives like our Mortgage Assistance Program to you guys, I'v
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09/15/2009
This article is republished from it.tmcnet.com REALTORS: What are you doing to attract your business? STOCKTON, Sep 14, 2009 (The Record - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The last time housing prices were this low in San Joaquin County, real estate agents were filling up the
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09/15/2009
A recent article on the Wall Street Journal Blog discussed the median household income over the last decade in relation to the average square footage increase of new single family homes. While the median household income has not changed significantly over the last decade, the average square foot
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09/14/2009
