US Housing Markets Facing Epic Hangover, Study Says

Apr 18th 2010 – 4:36 PM |AOL News

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(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...

10 Places Where Housing Market Is the Weakest

Apr 17th 2010 – 11:21 AM |AOL News

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(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...

Homeowners Offered $3,000 to Sell Short

Apr 13th 2010 – 12:02 PM |AOL News

AP

(April 13) -- New streamlined "short sale" provisions may make it easier for many of the millions of homeowners who owe more than their houses are worth to use an alternative to foreclosure. The...

Range of Incentives Aren't Attracting Home Buyers

Apr 1st 2010 – 10:00 AM |AOL News

AP

(April 1) -- Greater price affordability, record-low interest rates and historic levels of government-backed home-buying assistance should mean boom-time-level home sales. Unfortunately, too many...

Hottest Housing Markets for 2010

Mar 31st 2010 – 8:54 PM |AOL News

AP

(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...

Praise for BofA's Mortgage Modification Plan

Mar 26th 2010 – 8:39 PM |AOL News

AP

(March 26) -- Even critics of the mortgage-lending industry's efforts to help struggling homeowners keep their homes are lauding Bank of America's reduced-principal approach to mortgage modifications...

Get Ready for Round 3 of Credit Card Reform

Mar 19th 2010 – 2:35 PM |AOL News

(March 19) -- Don't take the shears to your credit card just yet. While credit card issuers may have managed to stay one step ahead of consumer-protection regulations, the next round of Credit CARD...

New Rule to Shed Light on Free Credit Report System

Mar 16th 2010 – 8:35 PM |AOL News

(March 16) -- It's not just that those pesky "free" credit report Web sites can snooker you into buying credit services. The federal government's own official, authorized Web site, where consumers...

High Marks Given to Homeowners Associations

Mar 16th 2010 – 9:30 AM |AOL News

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(March 16) -- Joseph Prudente, 66, of Bayonet, Fla., was jailed after his adjustable-rate mortgage reset and forced him to make what he thought was a no-brainer of a decision: pay the extra $600 a...

Eating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Mar 10th 2010 – 11:25 AM |AOL News

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(March 10) -- Eating can be hazardous to your health and the nation's economy. Food is sustenance; it provides necessary nutrients to sustain life and, when done right, it can be a gratifying...

Tough Times Lead to More Generations at Home

Mar 2nd 2010 – 9:22 AM |AOL News

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(March 2) -- The soft economy gives new meaning to family reunions. More buyers are purchasing homes to accommodate more than one family generation, and households are otherwise doubling up for all...

$1.5 Billion Targeted for Struggling Homeowners

Mar 1st 2010 – 1:32 PM |AOL News

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(March 1) -- Housing finance agencies are anxiously awaiting a small windfall to help some 125,000 struggling homeowners in five states hardest hit by the housing market crash. President Barack...

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