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If ever there was an obvious headline, the one above is it. The housing industry is in trouble, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be a fix any time soon. So what’s going on? We’ll start with the news that existing home sales are at their lowest level in 15 years, down 27% [...]
Talk about an interesting dilemma. Everyone knows about the California housing industry, which of course also ties in with unemployment and the rest of the problems California is having with their finances. A big part of the housing industry’s problem is the high foreclosure rates that are still occurring, even as a portion of their [...]
Many states are trying to work their way out of what’s been deemed a housing industry crisis. To say that things have been bad across the country would be an understatement. In 2009, the top housing markets were those that weren’t in a freefall, including my home area of Syracuse, which was flat yet considered [...]
Very little surprises me anymore when it comes to seeing that minorities suffer the most on many financial levels. First it was hearing that blacks and Latinos are taking the worst hit on unemployment than anybody else. Then it was hearing that black farmers still haven’t gotten money from the government that the Justice Department [...]
A news story by CNN Money came out and asked this question: Is A Housing Shortage Coming? Their premise is that, because of the housing industry issues that have plagued the country for a few years, that there aren’t enough homes for those people who are ready to buy either existing or new homes. Frankly, [...]
Should have seen this coming. Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which has been run pretty much by the government since 2008, have been “asked” by the New York Stock Exchange to delist themselves and to stop trading stock. That’s because the prices have fallen very low, with Fannie Mae around $1 and Freddie [...]
In what has to be a move to help them stave off some state attorneys general, as well as boost up some good publicity for a change, Bank of America is forgiving around $3 billion in debt owed them via bad home loans and people who are going through foreclosures. The amount comes to 30% [...]
