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FORECLOSURES
In the world of home foreclosure, you can bank on damage
- When Bob Steele, owner of Passport Realty in Mount Vernon, heads out to deliver a foreclosure notice, he always takes along a can of mace and a nightstick. He says you can’t be too careful.
- When Bob Steele, owner of Passport Realty in Mount Vernon, heads out to deliver a foreclosure notice, he always takes along a can of mace and a nightstick. He says you can’t be too careful.
Fairfax OKs steps to fight foreclosures
- The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Monday passed a three-pronged strategy to deal with the foreclosure crisis, including acquiring, revamping and selling some of the most blighted structures to new buyers.
African Americans in D.C. bear burden of subprime mortgage crisis, report finds
- African-Americans in Washington are living on the knife’s edge of the subprime mortgage crisis, a city government study has found.
Fairfax to consider proposal to fight foreclosure crisis
- The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is set to weigh a proposal today that seeks to combat the county’s foreclosure crisis by buying, fixing and selling shuttered houses, aiding first-time buyers in finding loans, and counseling households at risk of foreclosure.
Report: foreclosure rate grows fast in D.C. region
- The Washington region has one of the fastest-growing foreclosure rates in the nation, according to a study released Thursday.
Report: Foreclosure rate growing fast in D.C. region
- An analysis of the housing market in the Washington region shows the area has one of the fastest-growing foreclosure rates in the nation.
Desperate homeowners were swindled through TV ads, federal prosecutor says
- A group of alleged Maryland foreclosure swindlers has been charged with using television advertisements to entice desperate homeowners into turning over their deeds as a last-ditch effort to save their homes from being returned to the bank, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
Foreclosures plunge in Maryland, Virginia, rise in D.C.
- Nationwide, foreclosures surged more than 7 percent in May, but foreclosures dropped dramatically in Maryland and Virginia after a spike in both states the month before.
Bankruptcy numbers continue to increase
- With no money to spare for parking, Kelly Williams, a struggling single mother of four, left her rented Dundalk home and drove downtown, double-parking her car near the Garmatz Federal Courthouse, as she delivered one last piece of information that would complete her bankruptcy application.
- With no money to spare for parking, Kelly Williams, a struggling single mother of four, left her rented Dundalk home and drove downtown, double-parking her car near the Garmatz Federal Courthouse, as she delivered one last piece of information that would complete her bankruptcy application.
Loudoun to help workers buy foreclosures
- Loudoun County supervisors took steps Tuesday toward giving county employees housing relief while curtailing Sterling’s foreclosure crisis.
City, Wells Fargo trade blame in foreclosure crisis
- Baltimore City officials accused Wells Fargo Bank of deflecting the blame for hundreds of home foreclosures and demanded reimbursement for millions of dollars in lost tax revenue, according to new court filings.
Pr. William board backs proposal to fight foreclosures
- Prince William County supervisors unanimously backed a plan on Tuesday to combat their soaring foreclosure rate by helping county employees buy the vacant houses.
Fairfax proposes limiting purchases of foreclosed homes
- Fairfax County staff has proposed limiting the number of houses it buys under Chairman Gerry Connolly’s anti-foreclosure plan to 10 initially, which would be part of a larger campaign to reverse a mounting crisis in the county.