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MIAMI – March 17, 2009 – Tighter underwriting standards weren't enough to deter consumers and crooks from submitting bogus mortgage applications in 2008. Reports of mortgage fraud rose by 26 percent nationwide compared to the prior year, ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON (AP) – March 17, 2009 – The number of new housing projects that builders broke ground on in February rose sharply, defying economists' forecasts for yet another drop in activity. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that ...[Read More]
CHICAGO (AP) – March 10, 2009 – Americans are lacking in basic knowledge about insurance that might help their finances during the recession, according to a new survey. In fact, we know a lot less about insurance than we think we know, according ...[Read More]
ORLANDO, Fla. – March 10, 2009 – Real-estate agent Bryant Tutas says he gets 20 to 30 e-mails a day from United Kingdom investors who tell him essentially the same thing: “I want to buy a house. I want to buy a house today. I’ve ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 10, 2009 – HOPE NOW, a nonprofit alliance of mortgage companies, housing counselors and others in the lending business, has added a new tool to its website enabling homeowners to initiate a loan modification or refinance ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 9, 2009 – A rash of “instant defaults” in recently issued Federal Housing Administration mortgages is due to foul play among unscrupulous lenders, officials say. An analysis of available data by The Washington ...[Read More]
ORLANDO, Fla. – March 9, 2009 – College graduates hoping to become real estate appraisers may be able to go through an accelerated licensing process under a new initiative, which seeks to eliminate submission of college transcripts as part ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 9, 2009 – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Friday that it intends to seek further public comment on how to define the scope of a prohibited practice called “required use” ...[Read More]
NEW YORK – March 9, 2009 – You’ve heard of “irrational exuberance,” right? That’s the expression Alan Greenspan coined more than a decade ago when he warned that investors could be bidding stock prices too high. His ...[Read More]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – March 9, 2009 – State Farm Florida asked for a hearing Friday to appeal the state’s conditions for the company’s planned exit of Florida’s property insurance market. Meeting Friday’s deadline, State ...[Read More]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – March 5, 2009 – Craig Fugate, who guided Florida’s disaster response through vicious back-to-back hurricane seasons, has been tapped to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fugate, 49, said goodbye to staffers ...[Read More]
TAMPA – March 5, 2009 – Teresa Jackson, a State Farm policyholder for 18 years, has been looking for replacement coverage since State Farm announced, in late January, plans to pull out of Florida’s property insurance market. After weeks ...[Read More]
MIAMI – March 5, 2009 – The decline in the housing market has been well-documented, but a high-ranking Federal Reserve official told a Miami audience on Wednesday that he has been paying more attention lately to weakness on the commercial side ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 5, 2009 – Foreclosures drove U.S. home sales up 7 percent in 2008 after a 40 percent plunge the prior year, with eligible buyers lured by deep discounts and low loan rates, according to real estate data company Radar Logic. ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 5, 2009 – The Obama administration kicked off a new program Wednesday that’s designed to help up to 9 million borrowers stay in their homes through refinanced mortgages or loans that are modified to lower monthly payments. ...[Read More]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – March 2, 2009 – Florida lawmakers will greet the start of their 60-day legislative session Tuesday feeling like they’re in the movie Groundhog Day: No matter what they do, they keep facing the same painful reality ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – March 2, 2009 – Real estate commissions are now protected in some short-sale transactions. In response to Realtor concerns, Fannie Mae announced that “preforeclosure sales may not be conditioned upon a reduction of the total ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 27, 2009 – Against a backdrop of record-low new home sales, Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan told lawmakers the lending industry is set to launch the Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program next ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 27, 2009 – The National Association of Realtors® (NAR), which generally supports the Obama administration’s housing and stimulus plans, announced opposition to one budget proposal that would water down the mortgage ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 26, 2009 – The economic stimulus bill contains several tax provisions that will help small businesses struggling in a tough economy. Here are some of the provisions that might prove especially significant to a real estate-related ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 26, 2009 – Nearly 75 percent of the stimulus allocated to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department has been handed out, department officials said Wednesday. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said $10.1 billion of the $13.61 ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 26, 2008 – The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) expressed support of President Obama’s broadened focus of the nation’s economic recovery that stresses housing stability and making health care an important ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 25, 2009 – A government agency’s index shows U.S. home prices fell by the steepest annual amount on record in the fourth quarter. The Federal Housing Finance Agency says the drop of 8.2 percent from the prior year period ...[Read More]
WASHINGTON – Feb. 25, 2009 – More than one million distressed homeowners could benefit from filing for bankruptcy under proposed legislation allowing bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages on primary residences, according to the Congressional ...[Read More]
Not even a housing-led recession can shake Americans' faith in the blessings of homeownership. House prices may be falling, foreclosures rising and residential sales weak -- yet the vast majority of homeowners say their home is a source of comfort ...[Read More]
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