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Economy has made home owners to make serious sacrifices – Survey

The latest Move.Inc Homeowners survey has brought out many interesting facts to the fore. According to this random online survey, the present state of US economy has forced some homeowners to make serious sacrifices or changes to their lifestyle, since they wait for conditions to improve optimistically. Over two thirds of people surveyed – 69.1% [...]

The Home Affordable Unemployment Program (UP) – some details

The federal government has come up with one more program, in the series following Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) to alleviate the grievances of those – who have experienced a job loss; are behind on mortgage payments or soon will be. This is a supplemental program to HAMP took effect from April 5, 2010, which [...]

Home Modification Loans Going Back Into Default

A recent report issued by New York-based Fitch Ratings, a credit-rating agency, shows that the majority of homeowners that have gone through the loan modification process using the modification program offered by the Obama administration will end up going back into default within 1 year. According to the report, up to 75 percent of loan [...]

Investors in Real Estate are more interested now – Survey

Foreclosure crisis; economic down-turn; uncertainty of the market trend; and financial crunch – all these are the minus points of housing markets in US today. Yet the latest Survey conducted by Move Inc. among prospective American home buyers, shows that interest in real estate as an investment has more than tripled in the last year. [...]

75 Percent of Realtors will be active in the market for next two years – Survey

Are the Realtors in the reportedly “sluggish” US housing markets will lose interest and look elsewhere? No way – according to the 2010 National Association of Realtors Member Profile, three quarters of Realtors are very certain that they will remain active in the market for two more years. Only 8 percent of them were uncertain [...]

June 17, 2010

NATIONWIDE   Negative Equity induces a new Negative Trend The foreclosure crisis has culminated into many social problems, including dishonesty and throwing ethical standards to the winds. Instances of many underwater borrower-house owners just leaving the lending bank in the lurch, by simply stopping payment and dare their lenders to do what they can – [...]

Negative Equity induces a new Negative Trend

The foreclosure crisis has culminated into many social problems, including dishonesty and throwing ethical standards to the winds. Instances of many underwater borrower-house owners just leaving the lending bank in the lurch, by simply stopping payment and dare their lenders to do what they can – have come to light. The latest news story pertains [...]

What are the negative aspects in peoples’ mind towards purchasing a foreclosed home?

US Real Estate market experts are expressing their opinion, under various market conditions and developments, arising out of the foreclosure crisis. But what actually counts are the sentiments prevailing in the minds of people buying and selling foreclosed homes, to cause a flutter in the housing markets. The recent survey conducted by Realtytrac and Trulia.com [...]

June 10, 2010

NATIONWIDE   HAMP suffers stiff resistance from US Banks When the Home Affordable Mortgage Program was announced last year and after studying the features of the foreclosure mitigation plans of the Obama administration, experts voiced their concern that the program would at best slow down the foreclosure activity and would not bring forth avoidance of [...]

It is Spring – known as Peak Home Buying Season.

U.S. real estate has experienced that Spring is the peak season for home buying for the last several years. But what is the position now with the foreclosure fiasco plaguing the country and making the housing market sluggish as never before? The updates we are getting as of now are encouraging of course. The National [...]