Iowa AG Expected to Press California AG to Join Foreclosure Settlement
Iowa AG Expected to Press California AG to Join Foreclosure Settlement
By Sital Patel, FOX Business, November 29, 2011
The impasse over the nationwide mortgage foreclosure settlement continues, but could a meeting Tuesday provide the much needed breakthrough that brings the California Attorney General into the settlement and paves the way for a deal?
From Foreclosure to Occupation: Tenants Organize To Beat Evictions
By Mira Luna, Huffington Post, November 29, 2011
A group of low-income San Franciscans has come up with a positive, long term solution to the housing crisis that is causing millions of Americans to be evicted and some to embrace the "Occupy Homes" movement: buy the buildings.
Fed Records First Rise in New Mortgage Delinquencies in a Year
By Carrie Bay, DSNews, November 28, 2011
About 2.5 percent of current mortgage balances in the U.S. transitioned into delinquency during the third quarter, according to a new report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Monday.
Foreclosure fraud whistleblower found dead
By msnbc.com staff, November 30, 2011
A notary public who signed tens of thousands of false documents in a massive foreclosure scam before blowing the whistle on the scandal has been found dead in her Las Vegas home.
NM AG to push for foreclosure protections
The Associated Press, Bloomberg Businessweek, November 28, 2011
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King says he is renewing efforts to pass a law that would protect homeowners from foreclosure.
Underwater mortgages ebb slightly
By Kimberly Miller, The Palm Beach Post, November 29, 2011
Fewer Palm Beach County homeowners were awash in mortgage debt during the third quarter of this year as the percentage of underwater home loans dipped slightly.