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Foreclosures Down 3% In October From September

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Home Prices, Real Estate, Home Sales, Realtytrac, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK — The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure pre...

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Wiping Blood Off White Buck Shoes

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, President Obama, Orin Kramer, Realtytrac, JPMorgan Chase & Co., American International Group, Barack Obama, New York, Chrysler, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Dr. Daniel E. Fass, Morgan Stanley, University of California, General Motors, Wall Street, Bonus, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, White Shoe, New York Times, U.S. Census, London Telegraph, David D. Kirkpatrick, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

In New York, the oldest and snobbiest financial ventures are called "white shoe" firms. Their arrogance, risky investments and confounding dealing in derivatives threw the rest of us into the Great Recession.

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Foreclosure Woes Spreading To Good Borrowers In Unexpected States

npr.org | Kevin Whitelaw | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Illinois, Realtytrac, Business News

Amid record levels of home foreclosures nationwide, there are worrying signs that the foreclosure crisis could be spreading to parts of the country th...

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Arthur Delaney

Foreclosures: The Worst-Hit Cities

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure, Unemployment, Realtytrac, Business News

High unemployment rates are joining other factors, such as bad mortgage lending and the bursting of the housing bubble, in driving up foreclosure rate...

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Ryan Grim

Foreclosure: In The Midst Of Crisis, No Reliable Data

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Rate, Foreclosure, Realtytrac, Politics News

On Wednesday, both the House and Senate took up bills aimed holding back the wave of foreclosures drowning homeowners. Just how bad is the crisis? No...

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Illinois Foreclosures Soar

AP | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Steve Preston, Foreclosures, Illinois Real Estate, Illinois Housing, Realtytrac, Henry Paulson, Hud, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Illinois Foreclosures, Chicago News

The number of homeowners caught in the wave of foreclosures in October grew 25 percent nationally over the same month in 2007, data released Thursday ...

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Nearly 1 In 500 Homes Under Foreclosure In Illinois

Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Foreclosures, Illinois Real Estate, Chicago Real Estate, Realtytrac, Housing Crisis, Illinois Foreclosures, Chicago News

One in 510 homes in Illinois were in some stage of foreclosure in September, a slight improvement from August but almost 24 percent higher than in a y...

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Foreclosures Double From Last Year

Reuters | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure Filings, RealtyTrac, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Rate, Housing Crisis, Lending Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled fro...

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