Headline News Archive

2009

July

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• Otra crisis en el mercado inmobiliario de EE.UU.. El mercado inmobiliario de Estados Unidos enfrenta nuevas presiones que deprimen los precios, a medida que los tenedores de bonos respaldados por hipotecas de alto

13

• Mantener a flote las finanzas en un divorcio. La crisis ya se ha cobrado muchos matrimonios; una guía para que una ruptura no sea la ruina. Puede que la separación de

12

• More families are becoming homeless. Louis Gill doesn't like to turn anyone away. The director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center in California has taken to laying out cots and mattresses

• Jobless rate so high? So are late payments. Credit can be a lifeline after a layoff, but beware of the line becoming too long. As data from the American Bankers Association shows, consumer

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• When housing default is a strategy. Would you, under any circumstances, default on your home mortgage, even if you could afford to make the monthly payments? That's a trickier question than

• Even before slump, more kids were living in poverty. A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a federal

10

• The credit crisis and working America. The American Prospect offers a special section in its July/August 2009 issue with numerous articles on asset building, wealth disparities, exploitative credit and fallout from

09

• Protecting homeowners for the unexpected. Thomas Mackey has a nice little three-bedroom house on a golf course in Carolina Beach, N.C. Last fall, when he refinanced his mortgage, Mackey, 61,

• Democrats skeptical of consumer protection agency. President Obama's plan to create a new government agency to protect consumers from risky mortgages and credit cards ran into resistance from several House Democrats

• Don't add confusion to survivors' grief. The death of Michael Jackson, and the initial confusion over his will, got me to thinking: My husband and I are long overdue for updating

08

• Pobre futuro para las casas. Hay alta probabilidad de que precios de vivienda decaigan, porque persisten indicadores negativos. Un reporte inmobiliario dado a conocer ayer indica que existe una probabilidad

07

• No es tan fácil evitar el embargo. Para iniciar una refinanciación es importante conocer cómo funciona. José Enrique y Amalia Orantes son una de las muchas familias que esperan ansiosamente

06

• La morosidad crece entre los más solventes. La tasa de morosidad en las hipotecas de menor riesgo creció a más del doble en el primer trimestre con respecto al mismo perí

05

• Tax appeals take toll on local governments. Homeowners across the country are challenging their property tax bills in droves as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big

• Complaints erupt about lowball home valuations. It's by far the hottest controversy in real estate this summer, and it could directly affect the value of your house - probably negatively -

• Scam: Fraudulent Treasury 'promissory notes'. Yet another scam designed to separate homeowners from their money is making its way across the country from the West, where desperate sellers are willing

04

• Foreclosure help will reach more homeowners. The government will allow more distressed borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth to be eligible for refinancing assistance under an Obama administration

• Chinese drywall blamed for problems in U.S. homes. The final years of the U.S. housing boom and a disastrous series of Gulf Coast hurricanes created a golden opportunity for Chinese drywall manufacturers.

02

• 'Operation Short Change' charges fraud. The recession has killed jobs by the millions, but it's been a boon to one sector of the population: con artists. They've been offering consumers

• Mortgage refinance program expands. The Obama administration announced yesterday that it would loosen the eligibility requirements for a program aimed at helping borrowers with no equity in their homes

June

30

• Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks. For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more. Yesterday, in a decision

• Peligra la recuperación de la vivienda en EEUU. Paseando por Riverside, California, Bruce Norris apuntó hacia media docena de casas vacías con letreros de ''En venta'' colocados en jardines desatendidos, casas que,

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• Foreclosure plan buried in paper avalanche. Somewhere on earth, there must be a more difficult task than this: persuading American mortgage companies to lower payments for homeowners who can no longer

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• How to check your life insurer's health. If you want to know why it's important to know the health of your life insurance company, ask Vince Watson. His daughter, Katie, was

• La hipoteca en tiempos de excepción. En esta inusual etapa de la economía norteamericana han surgido términos y usanzas desconocidas para muchos de nosotros. Si hace dos años