During the worst of the housing crisis, foreclosures were everywhere. Vacant, boarded-up homes with overgrown lawns out front littered the streets of the nation, turning blocks into ghost towns and dragging down neighboring property values.
Parfitt Brothers, a trio of British-born architects who designed some of late 19th-century Brooklyn's most eye-catching houses. The freestanding Queen Anne-style house at 96 Brooklyn Ave. was constructed in 1887 and 1888, after prominent Brooklynite John Truslow retired from his position as president of the Brooklyn Board of Assessors. Foreclosure News
The Board of Supervisors voted Thursday at the County Office Building to file certificates of withdrawal, cancellations and prospective cancellation regarding the properties. The properties are at 93 and 102 S. Main St. in Gloversville. Foreclosure News
Teenage students from Boston Public Schools walked out of class Monday afternoon in protest of school closures and gun homicides. SOPHIE PARK/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF “Step over our dead bodies,” Dorchester resident Latasha Thompson demanded of City of Boston employees as they waded through a sea of seemingly lifeless children's bodies sprawled in the…
Call it buried tax treasure for homeowners: Deep inside the behemoth 654-page bipartisan budget bill recently signed into law by President Trump are little-noticed extensions of key tax-code benefits that expired in 2016, but now can be used for upcoming 2017 tax filings. Potentially the most popular is aimed at millions of buyers and owners…
The U.S. District Court of Rhode Island denied a large U.S. Bank's attempt to dismiss a case brought by a borrower for, among other things, breach of contract, misrepresentation, and violation of loss mitigation procedures under RESPA and Regulation X. The case stems from a court-ordered meditation of a foreclosure proceeding in which the parties…
Jose Aguilar was shocked, but also angry, when he received a letter of apology earlier this fall from Wells Fargo. Aguilar and his family lost their home in Chittenango, N.Y., in 2015 after trying time and again to get a mortgage modification from Wells. Foreclosure News
