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From Bad to Worse? A Foreclosure Crisis Primer

(Oct. 15) -- The American housing mess just keeps getting messier. Even as federal and state governments ratchet up investigations into the way banks and the mortgage-servicing industry move to seize the homes of owners who failed to make payments, the pace of foreclosures is picking up. And just over two years after a...

US Housing Markets Facing Epic Hangover, Study Says

(April 18) -- The housing crash that helped bring on the worst recession since the Great Depression will linger in the nation's hardest-hit real estate markets until 2025 -- or later. Nearly a full generation will pass before major metro areas in Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada return to the solid ground reached...

10 Places Where Housing Market Is the Weakest

(April 17) -- The U.S. housing recovery is shaping up as an uneven rebound, with only a few markets emerging as places to be for investors and homebuyers looking for bargains that won't go sour. The real story is how many markets are still perhaps a year or more away from recovery: most of them. Even the hottest spots...

Hottest Housing Markets for 2010

(March 31) -- The housing market remains anemic at best, but metro areas with the greatest potential for home equity growth and real estate investment returns are emerging. Look for the South to rise again and expect big moves from Texas, according to Hanley Wood, a leader in construction industry research and...

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12/11/11 Housing market recovery slow Source: Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland MD Maryland home builders expect a sluggish 2012 as joblessness and low consumer confidence have delayed a housing market recovery until at least 2013, according to experts at a forecast event held by the Home Builders Association of Maryland.
11/22/11 Gloom on housing market recovery Source: FT.com The average age at which people buy their first home is likely to rise into the mid-40s and the percentage of Britons living in homes they own is likely to fall to just more than half, according to one of the independent members of the Bank of England's rates-setting body.
05/04/11 No sign of housing market recovery Source: RTE Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said that, by the end of 2010, house prices had fallen by 33% from their peak levels.
08/23/10 'Pause' in house market recovery Source: BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland The Scottish housing market's recovery from the recession has "paused", according to a new report.
08/12/10 Is the Housing Market in Recovery? Source: Seeking Alpha The report details some important points about the Making Homes Affordable Modification Program effectiveness to date.