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CoreLogic® Reports Almost 65,000 Completed Foreclosures Nationally in February: Lower Foreclosure Rates than a Year Ago For Sixty-One of the Top 100 CBSAs Source: PRNewswire SANTA ANA, Calif., March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of information, analytics and b...

* New home sales fall 1.6 percent in Feb to four-month low* Median price surges 8.3 percent to eight-month high* Prices up 6.2 percent from year-ago By Lucia MutikaniSource: Reuters The battered U.S. housing market looks to be on the mend as buyers make a tentative return and house prices stabil...

Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle By Randy Southerland Some of Georgia’s hard-hit homeowners will soon be getting some relief in the form of a landmark $26 billion federal-state settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers over alleged fraudulent mortgage servicing practices rel...

More brilliant advice from Seth… We all need more GUTS! Too many MBAs are sent into the world with bravado and enthusiasm and confidence. The problem is that they also lack guts. Guts is the willingness to lose. To be proven wrong, or to fail. No one taught them guts in school. So much money at ...

By Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan (Reuters) - Dan Magder recently gave up a top job with private equity firm Lone Star Funds to strike out on his own and become a landlord. He's joining a growing list of big and small investors who see fat profits to be made in renting out foreclosed homes...

By: Alex CrippenSource: CNBC Warren Buffett says along with equities, single-family homes are a very attractive investment right now. Appearing live on CNBC's Squawk Box, Buffett tells Becky Quick  he'd buy up "a couple hundred thousand" single family homes if it were practical to do so. If held ...

Source: AGBeat The foreclosure log jam is loosening in some parts of the nation, depending on the foreclosure process in each state. Judicial states are seeing longer foreclosure processing times while non-judicial states are shrinking delays. Foreclosure scene shifting The number of Americans t...

Why renters should consider buying now?! Rents averaged 14.9 percent more than home-loan payments during the last three months of 2011 Renters were more costly than owning for the 5th cosecutive quarter U.S households with home loans are benefiting from the biggest cost savings relative to rents ...

How do you read these statistics?  Let us know your thoughts and we will share ours tomorrow. Single family residential sales in Metro Atlanta totaled 2,680 in February 2012. This is an increase of 15% compared to the 2,487 total sales for the month of February 2011 and a 6.9% increase in sales c...

  By Michelle ConlinSource: Reuters.com (Reuters) - When Vena Jones-Cox entered the foyer of the once-grand Colonial-style home in downtown Columbus, Ohio, she stepped onto a wood floor that was so moldy and mushy that it actually wiggled. As Cox proceeded down the basement stairs, they disappea...