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County, Bay Area home prices plummet
Despite an increasingly uncertain economy, thousands of homebuyers around San Francisco Bay kept snatching up foreclosed homes last month, dragging down the median home price by 41 percent from a year ago, a real estate tracking firm said Thursday. The median home price in the nine-county region plunged to $ 375,000 in October, compared with […]
Toledo area has 10th-highest rate of vacant homes
The Toledo area has the 10th-highest rate of home vacancies in the nation, according to a report by a real estate data firm. Of 194,274 single family homes and condos in metro Toledo, 5,709 were vacant, for a vacancy rate of 2.9 percent at the end of the third quarter, according to statistics compiled by […]
From homeowner, to tenant, to evicted: One familya s Bay Area housing saga
AYS BEFORE HIS MOTHER DIED, Saia Fetu'u made her a promise – he would take care of the house she had helped him buy for his family, honoring the 15 exhausting years she spent working and saving to scrape together the down payment. “Keep this house. Foreclosure News
Chicago has more underwater homes than any other U.S. metro area
Case in point, a recent report from Zillow, the real estate website, shows the share of homeowners across the country who are underwater on their mortgage is 9.1%, falling below 10% for the first time since the housing market collapsed more than a decade ago. Good news, since the average U.S. home lost more than […]
Buffalo area turning the corner on zombie homes
Vanessa Krnjaich may not have thought she was saving a neighborhood when she bought her fixer-upper for $ 45,555 at auction in August 2013. But the 26-year-old transformed a West Seneca, N.Y., house that had been vacant for five years, taking it from the rolls of the “walking dead” and restoring it to vibrant and […]
Does autopilot absolve one who drives drunk or has an accident? 2 incidents reported in Bay Area
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Stockton/Lodi Area Forecast to be One of the Hottest Housing Markets in the Country Next Year
Realtor.com looks at the top 100 housing markets around the country, and Stockton/Lodi landed in the top 10 for future sales growth. But you don't need a website forecast to see that things are looking up in Lodi as far as housing activity. Foreclosure News
Foreclosure Land Buying Opportunity Sat, Oct 21st- Orlando Area
LEESBURG, Fla: New large acreage community is being released in the Orlando area Saturday, October 21st, Island Ranches will offer 2 to 15 acre homesites starting at only USD 39,900. Ideally located in Lake County only minutes from downtown Orlando. Foreclosure News
Bay Area real estate: Home loan delinquencies go down, down, down
This house in East San Jose bore a sign of the times in June of 2008, when mortgage delinquencies were spiking in Santa Clara County. However the newest CoreLogic report reveals foreclosures now are at dramatically low levels – far removed from the 2008 mortgage/foreclosure crisis. Foreclosure News