A few of the recession’s hardest-hit housing markets have suddenly some of the healthiest. Tampa, Florida, which lost thousands of homes to foreclosure in the past decade, now takes the title of the nation’s healthiest housing market, at least according to TenX, a real-estate auction and analytics company. It rated locations based on a number …
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With a limited number of property listings amid solid demand, sellers have little reason to reduce asking prices. From December through February, less than four months’ supply of existing houses were on the market, compared with a post-recession high of about 12 months’ worth in mid-2010, according to the National Association of Realtors. Yes, interested sellers …
America’s Housing Inventory Problem, Explained in Four Charts Read More »
By Michael Taylor Last fall I learned…that a 50-acre parcel of which I am a part-owner has a planned “major thoroughfare” running through the middle of it. My agent sent me the city parcel map, and yup, there’s a bright yellow line cutting right through our property. As owners we can’t build on that. Any …
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Do you want to learn how to create high yield notes (who doesn’t)? Then join the podcast with Bob Zachmeier, president of NoteCarry.com this Thurs., March 23. 5 p.m. Pacific Time 6 p.m. Mountain 7 p.m. Central 8 p.m. Eastern To hear it LIVE and be able to ask questions, when it starts in your time zone call 712-770-4160. Enter the …
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The Justice Department told a federal appeals court on Friday that President Trump should have the authority to fire the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but stopped short of asking for the bureau to be abolished. As expected after the presidential election last year, the Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions sided …
ATTOM Data Solutions’ recent foreclosure study shows foreclosures are at an 11-year low in ATTOM’s February 2017 Foreclosure Activity, the lowest since 2005. Additionally, foreclosure activity has decreased on a year-over-year basis for the 17th consecutive month. Though foreclosures are dropping nationally, 10 states and the District of Columbia experienced increases in foreclosure activity. D.C. …
Foreclosures Drop Nationally, Some States Can’t Keep Up Read More »
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has become the largest buyer of severely delinquent home loans from mortgage giant Fannie Mae over the past year and a half, acquiring nearly two-thirds of $9.6 billion in loans the agency has auctioned, government records show. On Tuesday Goldman won the majority of loans at Fannie’s latest auction, its largest …
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In a recent opinion, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon says that recording an “assignment” of a deed of trust is not always sufficient to perfect an interest in the real property. Back in the heady days just before the Great Recession, a real estate speculator (“Speculator”) engaged in a series of …
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Click on the web addresses (URLs) to see the stories: 2017 may be your last chance to do a 1031 tax-deferred exchange. Congress may severely curtail or even eliminate them: tinyurl.com/glpqmub The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — kudos to George Orwell for that — has sued a lawsuit settlement funding company, claiming they are illegally lending …
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The Swedes bring their cars and the savages bring their flames. The burning cars are a metaphor for the impact of Muslim immigration on Sweden and the West Savages of Stockholm By Daniel Greenfield paradigmsanddemographics.blogspot.com Europe has many fine traditions. Its newest tradition is the burning car. Why burn cars? Because, as George Mallory once …
A Must-Read: Civilization is not a product, it’s a process. Read More »
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