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Despite being four years after the housing bust, the foreclosure plague has continued to spread. Here's how the country's 10 biggest cities are faring. New York Median price: $435,000 Foreclosure rate: 1.08% The New York area has the lowest foreclosure rate of any of the nation's 10 largest metro...

Software solutions provider MortgageFlex Systems Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., has entered into a partnership with Interthinx of Agoura Hills, Calif., in an effort to integrate within the same platform complementary tools that combine fraud prevention with predatory lending management. Thanks to the ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Las Vegas is once again the foreclosure king. One out of every 9 homes in Sin City received some kind of default notice in 2010, according a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac. That's five times higher than the national average. But there is a silver lining: The foreclo...

Almost two-thirds of "middle income" Americans between the ages of 55 and 75 are unsure if they have saved enough to live comfortably in retirement. This was one of the findings of a study by the Bankers Life and Casualty Company Center for Secure Retirement. The study defines middle income as be...

Selling with ConfidenceAchieving success in life can be hard. Achieving success in real estate is even harder. It certainly will be a little bit easier if you have people supporting you, who believe in you and will do whatever they can to help you attain the levels of success you aspire to reach....

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- New home sales climbed 17.5% in December to the highest level in eight months, the government reported Wednesday. Sales of newly built single-family homes rose to an annual rate of 329,000 units last month, from a revised 280,000 units the month before, the Commerce Departm...

The operating structures of the nation's title insurance underwriters are better equipped today to handle the expected decline in mortgage origination volume between 2010 and 2011 than in years past, a report from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said. This is because these companies have been engaged in ...

Those of us of a certain age, as they say, remember Bobby McFerrin's song "Don't Worry, Be Happy." And while that might be a personal philosophy on how one should live, to many it doesn't make sense as a business strategy. Rehoboth Beach, Del.-based homebuilder Schell Brothers says their success ...

ORLANDO, FL-The New American Home, the centerpiece of the National Association of Home Builders annual convention, died on the vine at last year's show in Las Vegas because the construction lender pulled out midway through the project. That didn't happen this year, not because construction financ...

According to NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- November home prices continued their latest slump, falling 1% compared with October, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index of 20 metro markets. San Diego was the only market that didn't slip, posting a slight gain of 0.1%. The overall index ...