February 10, 2012

Sell Your Home Quickly – You Don’t Need to Reduce Your Price!

Sell Your Home Quickly – You Don’t Need to Reduce Your Price!
Not a day goes by that you don’t hear or read something about how the Real Estate market it doing. It’s no surprise. What was once a hot market has cooled and most economic indicators are less than positive about the immediate future of the housing market.

Interactive: Where foreclosures cluster

Interactive: Where foreclosures cluster
Where foreclosures cluster: A few states are disproportionately hit

Capmark files for bankruptcy protection

Capmark files for bankruptcy protection
Capmark Financial Group, one of the largest U.S. commercial real estate lenders, has filed for bankruptcy protection amid mounting bad debt.

Investor Report: Fannie Mae’s PRP

Investor Report: Fannie Mae’s PRP
Fannie Mae has just come up with some help for people who don’t qualify for the Obama administration’s “home affordable modification program”, also known as “HAMP.”

Government unveils new mortgage help

Government unveils new mortgage help
The Obama administration is unveiling a new program to provide support to state and local housing agencies to provide help to thousands of home buyers and renters.

Features of Eco Homes

Features of Eco Homes
With more and more people preferring to build homes that are completely in harmony with its surroundings, more and more suppliers of kit homes are also offering eco home designs that will suit owner builders from all parts of the country. But how exactly do you identify an eco-friendly kit home?

Commercial real estate bust looms

Commercial real estate bust looms

Owners of commercial properties — especially those that aren't generating cash — face a major squeeze when their loans come due in the next few years. Prices are down 35 percent from the peak, making it all but impossible to refinance some commercial properties.Amid the worst  housing crisis in decades, commercial real estate is shaping up as the second half of what some are calling a “double bubble.”  By msnbc.com’s John W. Schoen.




Capmark files for bankruptcy protection

Capmark files for bankruptcy protection
Capmark Financial Group, one of the largest U.S. commercial real estate lenders, has filed for bankruptcy protection amid mounting bad debt.

No shame in walking away from mortgage

No shame in walking away from mortgage
Borrowers who “strategically default” and walk away from mortgages with the thinking  they’re better off taking the risk aren’t abusing system. They’re using it the way it’s designed to be used.

Investor Report: Fannie Mae’s PRP

Investor Report: Fannie Mae’s PRP
Fannie Mae has just come up with some help for people who don’t qualify for the Obama administration’s “home affordable modification program”, also known as “HAMP.”