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Casa occupado: House sitters help foreclosed homes seem more appealing

Empty houses up and down a street don’t help neighborhood values. In her article, No More Lonely Home: Details About House-Sitting Strategy,...
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Congress Exploring Plan to Keep At-Risk Homeowneers as Renters

In the face of mounting frustration over the nation’s foreclosure rate, the administration and Congress are exploring some alternatives for...
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Just whose market is this?

In his article/blog, Sellers Market, Buyers Market or. . . Lenders Market? Realtor William Johnson, asks, “Buyers rule? Not so fast....
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New credit scoring criteria can be a game changer

800 just might be the new 750. To what are we referring? It is that pesky credit score number wreaking havoc on consumers due to tough economic...
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'Nobody home' becomes everyone's problem

Lazy summer days are usually the ‘busy’ season for real estate professionals, characterized by families making moves between school...
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Jumbo loans no longer dead in the water

Do interest rates and the increasing availability of jumbo mortgage loans mean the tide is turning for luxury homebuyers?Nearly extinct due to...
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Round and round it goes. Where it stops, nobody knows

It’s like a shell game. The magician keeps moving the shells around and dares you to recognize under which shell the pea is hiding.Only we...
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Shaky California Homeowners Staying Put

In an article in today’s Los Angeles Times, William Heisel reports that new figures reveal that more Californians are failing to make their...
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Younger-than-ever Boomers joining 55+ retirement communities

Do you remember when 55+ communities seemed to attract very few residents under the age of 70? Even though 'active adult living' were the buzzwords...
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A bigger mortgage footprint for lower carbon footprint

LA Times reporter and real estate expert Kenneth R. Harney reports that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is bullish on the idea of calculating the...
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