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"Accidental landlords" emerge as people decide to rent their homes instead of doing a short sale or a foreclosure. CNBC's Diana Olick, offers insight.
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"Accidental landlords" emerge as people decide to rent their homes instead of doing a short sale or a foreclosure. CNBC's Diana Olick, offers insight.
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SALEM, Ore.-- The Oregon House has voted to extend a requirement that some mortgage lenders meet with struggling borrowers and a professional mediator before initiating foreclosure proceedings. The mediation requirement was first adopted last year.
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A group led by hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman is reportedly set to buy a Manhattan penthouse for more than $90 million.
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Morningstar reports that Canada's banks and its housing finance agency may take serious losses if Canada's home prices decline.
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It seemed as if Canada had avoided the excesses of the housing bubble that hit so many nations. But now it may be catching up.
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Steve Eisman, the hedge fund manager who famously bet against mortgages in the United States, has recommended investors now bet against Canada's mortgage lenders and banks.
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CNBC's Diana Olick has the latest details on foreclosures from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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Five years after the mortgage meltdown sparked a wave of foreclosures, millions of Americans are still fighting to save their homes. That is hurting a broader housing recovery.
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NEW YORK, May 9- Foreclosure activity fell in April to its lowest level in more than six years, the latest sign the recovery in the housing market is on track, a report from RealtyTrac showed on Thursday. It was the lowest level since February 2007.
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Hedge fund managers are shifting strategies to make more money on foreclosures, reports CNBC's Diana Olick.
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NEW YORK, April 30- More foreclosures of U.S. homes were completed in March even as the number of properties sitting in the foreclosure pipeline fell, a report from data analysis firm CoreLogic showed on Tuesday. There were 55,000 completed foreclosures last month, up nearly 6 percent from 52,000 in February, according to CoreLogic.
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Underwater homeowners who were given help with loan modifications are still defaulting in big numbers, with CNBC's Diana Olick.
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WASHINGTON, April 22- U.S. home resales edged downward in March, even though the housing market recovery that has helped boost the economy has shown strength in recent months and is expected to continue.
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WASHINGTON, April 22- U.S. home resales edged downward in March, a pause in the housing market recovery that has helped boost the economy. The National Association of Realtors said on Monday that existing home sales edged down 0.6 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.92 million units.
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Several of the largest U.S. public home builders will report earnings next week, and analysts are looking for guidance as to whether the housing recovery may be stalling.
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Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, talks to CNBC's Steve Sedgwick about the US economy, the housing crisis and whether he could be the next man in charge of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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U.S. builders ratcheted up construction, but the growth was entirely in apartment buildings. Multifamily housing starts are now running much faster than the 10-year average.
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NEW YORK, April 11- The number of U.S. homes lenders repossessed fell in March to the lowest level in more than five years, though more properties entered the foreclosure process in a reminder that the market has a long way to go to full recovery, data from RealtyTrac showed on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, April 10- Two Democratic lawmakers lambasted federal regulators whom they accuse of using an obligation to protect bank "trade secrets" as an excuse not to hand over details of a botched review of home foreclosures.
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WASHINGTON, April 9- Borrowers whose homes were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010 can expect to receive between $300 and $125,000 under settlements reached between top banks and U.S. regulators earlier this year.