On Wednesday, February 11, Queen Latifah will kick off the Bringing Hope Home bus tour of Newark, New Jersey, to promote foreclosure prevention in the New England community. The Golden Globe and Grammy award winner and Oscar nominee will be joined by multi-platinum recording artist and actor Wyclef Jean and New York/New Jersey radio personality and actress Angie Martinez.
Read More »HUD Approves $30M Neighborhood Stabilization for Oklahoma
On Monday, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the approval of the state of Oklahoma’s plan to use its $29,969,459 allocation under HUD’s new Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
Read More »FHFA Releases Foreclosure Prevention Report
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), regulator of the nation’s GSEs and the more than $6.3 trillion in mortgage funding they supply, released its November Foreclosure Prevention Report today.
Read More »Equity Fund Launched to Help Stem Foreclosures with Principal Write-downs
Freehold, New Jersey-based First Equity Capital, LLC has established a private equity fund to buy pools of non-performing mortgage notes in an effort to stem the tide of foreclosures and delinquencies.
Read More »Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Host Holiday Dinners With Congress Members
Families on the verge of foreclosure and facing eviction in several cities across the country hosted early Christmas dinners with Congressional lawmakers this week to intimately discuss the impact of the economic and housing downturn on Main Street Americans.
Read More »More Homeowners Turning to Short Sales to Avoid Foreclosure
National Short Sale Center, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that assists lenders, real estate agents, and homeowners nationwide in short-selling properties for maximum value, has announced that short sales in 2008 hit an all-time high in Arizona, Nevada, California and Florida.
Read More »Ohio Sheriff Refuses Winter Evictions
Sheriff Richard Jones of Butler County, Ohio, is refusing to evict homeowners or tenants in his jurisdiction who have been foreclosed on and have no other place to live. The sheriff sent a letter to Ohio Gov.
Read More »ForeclosureS.com: Housing Markets Will Roar Back in 2009
The nation’s foreclosure hemorrhage has finally slowed and 2009 should see a significant decline in foreclosures as buyers return, pushing home prices up and fueling a real estate recovery, according to the 2009 Outlook from California-based ForeclosureS.
Read More »CMSI Unveils Tool for Evaluating Loan Portfolio Risk in a New Credit Environment
Columbia, Maryland-based CMSI Group Inc., a company that helps financial institutions mitigate credit risk, recently announced the first of two software applications for assessing the underlying loss risk of a lender’s loan portfolio.
Read More »California Foreclosures Rebound After Impact of SB 1137
ForeclosureRadar, an online company that tracks California foreclosures and provides daily auction updates, issued its California Foreclosure Report for November 2008 today. Despite the clear impact that California State Senate Bill 1137 had on stemming foreclosure activity in September and October, November saw significant increases across all stages of the foreclosure process, the company said.
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