12 Articles match "Chicago","Foreclosures"

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• Foreclosure Spat Brews in Chicago
  
  Foreclosure Spat Brews in Chicago The Wall Street Journal While many banks are taking pains to work out troubled commercial-property loans rather than foreclosing, Bank of America Corp. has lost its patience with a developer who took on a notoriously...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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• Freddie Mac turns to YouTube to help troubled homeowners
  
  Freddie Mac turns to YouTube to help troubled homeowners Chicago Sun-Times Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is using YouTube.com to educate homeowners at risk of foreclosure on how they can help reduce the stress and time it takes to get a mortgage modification...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Thursday, July 23, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New Illinois Housing Law Draws 2nd Suit
  
  Two law suits have been filed against a controversial Illinois law that mandates financial counseling for certain consumers obtaining mortgages or refinancing loans in 10 ZIP code areas in Chicago. The suits — filed by eight consumers and the real estate community — seek to halt the implementation of Illinois House Bill 4050, which took effect September 1. "It's a discriminatory law," said Julie Santos, a Chicago Realtor and co-chair of the Coalition to Rescind HB 4050, a group formed from several community organizations who are collecting signatures in an attempt to repeal the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Can Financially-Troubled Homeowners Prevent Foreclosure?
  
  For the 112,210 Americans who entered the foreclosure pipeline in September, the answer is simple: Talk to your lender at the first sign of trouble. Lenders want to keep troubled borrowers in their homes and out of foreclosure. For lenders, foreclosures are costly — often entailing heavy payouts for legal fees, realty brokerage commissions, repairs, property taxes, maintenance and carrying costs. When you miss several mortgage payments and your lender sends you a notice of default, where do you turn for relief? Call immediately and ask to speak with the “loss mitigation”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
  
  The Tigers have given local fans a chance to momentarily forget about another dubious distinction: that they reside in a city with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation . Detroit’s Wayne County reported 4,190 properties entering foreclosure in September, the second most only behind Chicago’s Cook County (whose fans didn’t have any team to cheer in the playoffs this year). The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  This weekend, as the best college basketball players square off, RealtyTrac will tip off its Sweet 16 foreclosure list. Chicago, IL — Opening Bid: $85,000 WEST REGION SEMIFINAL Savvy buyers west of the Rockies don’t have to read any John Wooden books to spot these easy free throw investment opportunities. SW, Albuquerque, NM — Opening Bid: $83,892 SOUTH REGION SEMIFINAL With many homeowners singing the post-Katrina blues in Louisiana and Mississippi, Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
  
  Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. million homes will enter foreclosure next year. Conference of Mayors . Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home values
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bernanke: Free Market Can Curb Foreclosures
  
  In remarks he made yesterday in Chicago, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke talked extensively about how he believes the Federal Reserve Board should respond to rising foreclosures — specifically in the subprime mortgage market. And he predicted "further increases in delinquencies and foreclosures this year and the next as many adjustable-rate loans face interest-rate resets." His conclusion came down in favor of the free market: "Credit market innovations have expanded opportunities for many households. Markets can overshoot, but, ultimately, market forces
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mortgage Reform to Calm Foreclosure Storm
  
  In an attempt to address the recent downturn in the real estate market — evidenced by rising foreclosures and falling home prices and which many believe may threaten to undermine the overall economy — the House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that imposes more stringent regulatory oversight of the mortgage industry. Sets forth defenses to foreclosure. Called The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007, the bill ( H.R. 3915 ) claims to "amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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