Headline News Archive

2009

April

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  • Red tape hits foreclosure sales. Anxious to meet the bank's demands for quick action, Andrew Garcia and his fiancee, BethAnne Hoffmann, rushed to find financing to buy a foreclosed-on house
12
  • Pass it on, don't move out. If you intend to give your house to your kids and you want to save on estate taxes, consider establishing a qualified personal residence trust,
11
  • Disclosing a home's energy efficiency. Picture this: You're shopping for a home, dropping by open houses on a weekend. Each house you visit has an easy-to-understand disclosure about something that's
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  • Squatters calling foreclosures home. MIAMI — When the woman who calls herself Queen Omega moved into a three-bedroom house here last December, she introduced herself to the neighbors, signed contracts
  • Stimulus money being doled out slowly. Building repairs are underway on public housing in Imboden, Ark., and Cumberland, Ill., states across the country are receiving money to weatherize the homes of
  • Es momento de refinanciar hipotecas. El presidente Barack Obama pidió ayer a las familias estadounidenses que aprovechen la reducción de las tasas hipotecarias para refinanciar sus viviendas. “Nos encontramos
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  • El gobierno advirtió contra estafas. El Secretario de Vivienda, Shaun Donovan, pidió la colaboración de los medios hispanos, para difundir líneas de ayuda seguras para que las familias
07
  • Foreclosure scams are target of crackdown. Federal and state officials are cracking down on foreclosure-rescue scams, the Obama administration said yesterday as it pledged to take on a growing industry that's
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  • When to use a mortgage broker. It’s a bad time to be an honest mortgage broker. In recent months, some of the biggest companies in real estate have decided to
  • Locking in the best mortgage rate. Refinancing today is not the same game it was a few years ago, when homeowners with even a modest amount of equity and just so-so
  • Government plan to fight loan scams. The Obama administration will announce Monday a multi-agency effort to combat loan modification scams. As the country's foreclosure rate rises, companies have popped up offering
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  • How to reform the mortgage market. Congress is preparing to take up a comprehensive plan that would fundamentally reform the home mortgage market, starting this year. Had the same rules and
02

March

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  • What might be hurting home values. Are low-balled value estimates on short sales and bank-owned foreclosures artificially depressing property values in neighborhoods across the country? Growing numbers of appraisers and consumer
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  • Tent cities are taking root. As the operations manager of an outreach center for the homeless here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck. What he
  • Esperando la ley de Bancarrota. Los hispanos atrapados por créditos hipotecarios de alto riesgo centran sus esperanzas en una reforma a la ley de Bancarrota que sería un
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  • Shining light on the bailout effort. In the days after President Obama's inauguration, Neil M. Barofsky, the chief watchdog overseeing the $700 billion federal bailout of the financial system, walked up from
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  • Frugal families doing own chores. Beth Rogers is taking the family's finances into her own hands -- literally. The 35-year-old from Fayetteville, Ark., ditched her weekly housekeeping service and now
  • Bankruptcy 're-reform' now on table. Cash-strapped families are seeking bankruptcy protection at nearly the same rate and in the same manner as they did before the much-debated 2005 bankruptcy law reform,
 

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