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Condos sic judges on owners for back HOA fees

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How to Understand the Next Mortgage Crisis
There are some troubling new developments in mortgages. Again. The quick and dirty story is that increasingly, people who fall behind on mortgage payments aren't catching up. Here's what that means, why it could change the way we think about how foreclosures will evolve over the next year and what we should be doing about it:

Housing bottom premature. The clue? Foreclosure pipeline full

Barney Frank says Ron Paul bill will pass

Forbes

In Depth: America's 100 Most Expensive ZIP Codes

Brothers, facing foreclosure, sue broker, attorney

More than half of Arizona mortgaged properties now underwater

Las Vegas Home Sales Led by Foreclosures

Beware The False Bottom In Housing

Fla. Court Wants Foreclosure Mediation
A Florida Supreme Court panel recommended that all cases involving primary homes be mediated.
WSJ.com

Telegraph.co.uk

Bernanke's Next Tasks Will Be Undoing His First

Loan Modification Misinformation

Freedom Fighters enjoy landmark win over the Federal Reserve

Will the Home Resume Crashing After Tax Credit Deadline?
...But whether the momentum can be sustained when the tax credit goes away is the real question.
Tax credit lifts home sales, but experts worry that will end with Dec. 1 deadline

Housing: Still a Long Road to Recovery

Economy drowning in underwater homeowners

Double-Dip Threatens Housing Recovery

Some saw the housing bubble and sold; trick now is spotting the bottom

California's unemployment rate hits record high
White-collar workers have likewise suffered from the housing crash as thousands of jobs in banking, mortgage processing and real estate sales have vanished. ...

California's housing depression could spread

25 Worst Real Estate Markets In The United States

THE FEDERAL RESERVE MUST DIE

Ladies & Gentlemen, Your 81st Bank Failure Of The Year

Straits Times

Analyst: Up to 200 more banks may fail in crisis

Obama to renominate Bernanke as Fed chief, scrutiny vowed

Guidelines threaten to derail housing recovery
Two little-known exclusions in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lending guidelines are endangering many of America's newest neighborhoods, preventing homeowners from recovering damages for construction defects and threatening to derail the housing recovery before it gets off the ground.

Study Shows Looming Health Crisis Tied To Nation's Housing Woes

Southern California Home Prices Fall on Foreclosures

House 'Under Water'? Do Like the Banks Do and Just Walk Away

MonitorBankRates.com

US mortgage bond yield premiums rise on Fed angst
For now, the bet is for higher rates. Investors "are still trying to get in front of that trade," Jack Donahue, a managing director in Jefferies & Co's ...

How Foreclosure Affects Your Credit Score

A loan modification becomes a nightmare for one unlucky Wells Fargo customer

Are Mortgage Companies Artificially Slowing Foreclosures To Boost Balance Sheets?
With mortgage companies facing an overwhelming number of non-performing loans, they may be strategically holding back foreclosures to make their balance sheets look better than they actually are. However, this practice could be hazardous to the economy if the dam breaks on the growing number of foreclosures...

Wells Fargo is sued over home equity lines of credit

Riverside County prices steady in July - CA

Deciphering The Good And Bad In US Housing

The Market Oracle

US Housing Market Crash Means Collapse Of The "Ownership Society"

The New American Dream: Renting

Report: DC mortgages are $149 billion underwater

For bubble-timers, gauging the bottom is personal

Homeowners tell how banks failed to modify mortgages

No Down Bad Credit Home Loans - 5 Tips

As Inland home prices fall, affordability range widens - Southern California

Los Angeles school district will sharply raise taxes on property owners

Foreclosures rise 7 percent in July from June

Nevada Leads in Foreclosures Again: Median Price Still Sinking
The median home price in the Las Vegas area fell from $155300 in the first quarter to $141800 in the second quarter, the Realtors said. ...
Report: Nevada tops foreclosure list for 31st month

Clock Ticking On $8000 Home Buyer Tax Credit
First-time home buyers and those who haven't owned a home in the past three years are running out of time to cash in on the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit. The deadline is November 30. If you don't close on your home...

WSJ: The Next Fannie Mae - FHA/Ginnie Mae

Housing Market Stabilizing...and other lies
The decline in housing prices is ACCELERATING, not slowing down. The historic collapse in real estate is ongoing and it is wiping out trillions in homeowner equity making it increasingly difficult for consumers to borrow on the diminishing value of their collateral. This is why foreclosures, defaults and personal bankruptcies are soaring.
Bernanke, Do You Have The Cojones To Raise US Interest Rates?

Denver-area home prices down 9.6% in a year - CO

Telegraph.co.uk

Paul Krugman pays $1.7m for Manhattan apartment
The economist, who reckons that the worst slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s may be ending, isn't confident that he has bought at the bottom of ...

As homeowners head 'underwater,' another housing crisis looms

Why a Housing Rebound Could Take 20 Years

More US home sellers cutting prices: survey

The Federal Reserve Is Immoral
Maybe, just maybe, something will finally be done about reforming (or, as suggested by Rep. Ron Paul, abolishing) this banking cartel - hopefully before the Fed celebrates its 100-year anniversary in a few years.

US housing still hurting

Report: 25% of mortgage holders 'underwater'

ABC News

The Top 10 Places to Sell a Home

East Bay homes with negative equity could pull down economy - CA
The plunge in home prices has shoved the value of a growing number of houses in the East Bay and neighboring regions under water, ...

The Strongest US Housing Markets

US Home Prices Fall 12.1% In Q2 2009

Us Magazine

Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Loses Home to Foreclosure

What If the Housing Bubble Never Happened?

Fla. population shrinks for first time since WWII

The negative home equity nightmare: Housing won't stabilize until 2011

Who should we believe about our ‘economic crisis’? Peter Schiff, who got it right? Or Art Laffer, who got it wrong?
Watch this youtube video of Laffer and Schiff debating Schiff's prediction of both the housing and financial crisis we are currently experiencing. ...

Subprime troubles worsening, report says

Underwater Mortgages May Reach 30% by Mid-2010, Zillow Says

America's Best And Worst Housing Markets

Silicon Valley home price declines may spread to higher-end areas - CA

US Q2 home prices fall, but rate slows: report

South Florida a hot spot for 'underwater' borrowers

Home Prices Down in 13 Major Markets

Fed to dampen rate hike talk, halt Treasury buying

IRS warns of First-Time Homebuyer Credit fraud

Builders Call on Congress to Extend and Enhance Home Buyer Tax Credit

The Next Meltdown Will Come In 2012
The culprit? The Fed, Ferguson says: "Without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission and commission of central banks." So the next bubble (and meltdown) is virtually certain, thanks to Washington's $23.7 trillion explosion in debt.

Obama mortgage plan aids banks, not homeowners

Fannie Mae reports $15 billion loss, asks US government (taxpayers) for $11 Billion!

Housing begins to reverse 3-year recession in every US region, but 2nd Half Looks Rocky

Half of all mortgages to be underwater by 2011

Southern California median home sales price surges in June

New wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming

San Jose approves bailout of underwater loans to former police auditor

A Mortgage Watchdog Group Is Born

The future for mortgage brokers: Back to square one?

Bernanke Fights House Bill To Audit The Fed
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is strongly opposing a proposal in Congress, which enjoys the support of over half of the U.S. House of Representatives, to audit the Fed.

Mortgage-Bond Yields Rise to Two-Month High; Rates May Climb

Robert Shiller on Housing Speculators: If You Can Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Yale economist and financial commentator Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, deserves credit for predicting the bursting of the housing bubble. ...

End of US housing slump? Not exactly
...And aside from speculators and first-time buyers – lured by depressed prices and an $8,000 (U.S.) federal tax credit – the overall market remains very soft.

Housing Remains in Deep Slump Despite Recent Uptick
Yet, brokers and economists are slow to call it a comeback, citing a backlog of foreclosures expected to hit the market this year, a slew of Alt-A adjustable rate mortgages scheduled to reset, and high unemployment.

Banks Urged to Consider Higher Home-Equity Reserves

ABC News

Bank of America Pays $33 Million to Settle Merrill Bonus Charges

High-End Homes Frozen Out of Budding Housing Rebound

Telegraph.co.uk

Double-Dip Recession Still in the Picture: Roubini

Condo conversion values plummet farthest in housing bust

End the Fed? A not-so-crazy idea.

Pulte Reports Loss as Homebuyers Prove Hard to Lure

New wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming

South Florida condo conversions collapse

Revealed: Realtors' incomes

Home-price decline's halt may be final, or just pause

The Chronicle Journal

Housing could take another turn downward: Greenspan

Realtor economist not ready to call bottom

How a Housing Bubble Burst Into a Global Financial Crisis

California's default rate soars to 9.5%

AFP

75% of Americans agree with Ron Paul: Audit the Federal Reserve

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