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Renting Out Foreclosed Homes Ready To Become Big Business

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Video, Dr. Evil, Foreclosure Rentals, Foreclosure Crisis, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Bank of America, Carrington Capital Management, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Waypoint Real Estate, Foreclosure, Corelogic, Austin Powers, Mortgage to Lease, Business News

The business of turning foreclosed homes into rentals is set to boom. The practice could be a $100 billion industry this year, according to a rep...

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A Scarlett Letter On Economic Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Credit Report, Debt, Payday Lending, Corescore, Fico, Auto Insurance, Employment, Background Checks, Corelogic, Data Collection, Credit, Experian, Credit Check, Credit Score, Transunion, Rent-to-Own, Equifax, Business News

Thanks to a new kind of credit score, more borrowed money may end up in the hands of the increasing number of Americans who are sliding down the econo...

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A Housing Market Divided: The Rich And Everyone Else

AP | By MICHELLE CONLIN | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, Housing Market, Foreclosure Crisis, Corporate Profits, Zillow.com, Mortgage, Great Recession, Capital Economics, Foreclosure, Corelogic, Great Depression, Business News

-- In America, it's starting to feel as if there are two housing markets. One for the rich and one for everyone else. Consider foreclosure-ravaged D...

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Spring Buying Sends Home Prices Up In Most Cities

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home-Price Index, S&P's Index, Homebuyers, Home Prices, High Unemployment, Economic Recovery, Corelogic, Tax Credit, Down Payment, Housing Crisis, Video, Business News

WASHINGTON — Spring buying pushed home prices up for a third straight month in most major U.S. cities in June. But the housing market remains sh...

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11 Million Americans Owe More Than Their Home Is Worth

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Corelogic, Home Prices, Home Sales, Underwater Mortgages, Negative Equity, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth rose at the end of last year, preventing many pe...

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Housing Collapse Badly Underestimated By Realtors' Report

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Recovery, Housing Collapse, Corelogic, National Association of Realtors, Home Prices, Nar, Real Estate, Wall Street Journal, Business News

WASHINGTON - A housing trade association is examining the possibility that the data it releases underestimated the collapse of the housing industr...

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Number Of Underwater Mortgages Falls, Thanks To Foreclosures

AP | By ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Banks, Unemployment, Corelogic, Underwater Mortgage, Negative Equity, Business News

LOS ANGELES -- Foreclosures are helping to thin the ranks of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth, new data shows. R...

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Nearly One Quarter Of Mortgage Borrowers Owe More Than Their Home Is Worth

DailyFinance | CHARLES HUGH SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Real Estate, Corelogic, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Underwater Mortgages, Negative Equity, Business News

By the end of the first quarter of 2010, the number of mortgaged residential properties with negative equity had declined slightly to 11.2 million, do...

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Wells Fargo's 'College-Application-Type Essays' Violate Fair Housing Act

nytimes.com | TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Department of Housing and Development, Motivational Essays, Hud, Home Loan Applications, Wells Fargo, Corelogic, Fair Housing Act, Home Loans, College Applications, Business News

When Linda Falcão applied for a mortgage from Wells Fargo, she didn't realize she would be required to write the type of essay that's more commonly i...

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Inflated Home Appraisals Key In Plaintiff's Lawsuit Against Banks

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Backed Securities, Corelogic, Merrill Lynch, Ubs, Real Estate Values, Home Appraisals, Credit Suisse, Countrywide, Deutsche Bank, Banks, Financial Crisis, Federal Home Loan Banks, Foreclosure, Sec, Wall Street, Business News

Recent filings by two Federal Home Loan Banks -- in San Francisco and Seattle -- offer an intriguing way to clear this high hurdle. Lawyers representi...

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Existing Homes Sales Sank 5.1 Percent In June

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Buyer Tax Credit, Thomson Reuters, National Association of Realtors, Congress, Freddie Mac, Credit Suisse, Home Sales, Real Estate, Corelogic, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June and are expected to keep sinking, indicating that the housing market's troubles are...

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On the Foul Line with the Chamber of Commerce

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Congress, Thomas Donahue, Seiu, Afl-Cio, Corelogic, Citizens United, US Chamber of Commerce, Republican Party, LeBron James, Politics News

Like LeBron James, the Chamber of Commerce's Tom Donahue knows who his Super Friends are: big business, the conservative, naysaying obstructionists in Congress and their candidates, poised to take back the majority.

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The Fastest-Rising Home Prices In America: CoreLogic (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Unemployment, Real Estate, Government Tax Credit, Mortgage Delinquency, Housing Crisis, Corelogic, San Jose, Boston, Washington DC, Home Prices, San Francisco, Cincinatti, Business News

Good news: According to CoreLogic, a California data company, from March 2009 to March 2010 national home prices rose 1.73 percent. The number migh...

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