It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Brooklyn, New York, home prices dropped 8.7 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, the ninth straight decline, as unemployment and stricter lending standards sank property values. At 230 Ashland Place, a 30-story bank-owned condominium...
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The Palm Beach Post reports from Florida. "The Resort at Singer Island opened to rave reviews in 2007, attracting the likes of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and tennis star Jennifer Capriati. Conceived at the height of the sizzling real estate boom, the resort is a condo-hotel. The...
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First they came for our post offices.... and I said nothing. Then they came for our roadways...and again, I said nothing. Now they’re coming for our health insurance companies...and I say "Tear them a new one, Barack!" In a society as large and unwieldy as the one we've become, some institutions...
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The Day in Connecticut. "The good news for the region: Foreclosure filings last year fell 12 percent in New London County compared to the year before. The bad news: They're still pretty high. The numbers are up more than 55 percent from where they were in 2007. And they are six times the level of...
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A report from the Sunday Telegraph. "Australian families are being priced out of the property market by record numbers of highly paid skilled workers arriving from overseas. Research by The Sunday Telegraph has revealed for the first time how skilled immigrants - predominantly from Britain, India...
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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Grace Morgan has faced foreclosure not once, but twice, and she's scared it could happen again. The Salisbury resident and her husband have been out of work for some time and they simply weren't able to pay their mortgage. Morgan was able to make...
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KGW reports from Oregon. "Many unscrupulous companies continue to target desperate homeowners desperate for an easy out. It's a problem that's exploded in foreclosure filled Oregon in the past year. One television infomercials says it's no problem to be upside down on your mortgage. USMAC Law...
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The Bay Area News Group reports from California. "Personal and small-business bankruptcy filings are soaring in the Bay Area as more people lose their jobs and homes and as the profile of those facing bankruptcy extends deeper into the middle class. Norma Hammes, a San Jose attorney, said she's...
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A report from Florida Today. "The man was a truck driver. And his woman companion worked from the house. That was what the Realtor told the Satellite Beach couple about the new renters in their Palm Drive house. In late 2008, owners Kathleen Burgess and Ibrahim Yalcinsoy had moved to Marble, N.C....
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