real estate bubble: Hope Now for Homeowners in Trouble
- 11/30/07 04:02 AM
A colleague of mine brought a recent article in the Wall Street Journal to my attention about a new association called Hope Now. It is comprised of a number of major lenders, banks, credit counselors, and other organizations. They want to try and ease the sub-prime fallout by providing help, information, and resources to homeowners who may be facing foreclosure. They are also working with the US Treasury Department to temporarily freeze sub-prime mortgages to try and stem the tide of foreclosures. Here is the new site for the group. I also wrote a post on the myClosingSPACE blog about this. … (3 comments)
real estate bubble: Zillow + Foreclosures = ForeclosureRadar.com
- 08/14/07 03:19 AM
I have heard it said many times that there is an opportunity to make money when markets go south. Someone will find a way to capitalize on poor market conditions and the fact is no markets are exempt. There are many ways to make a lot of money in a slow real estate market. While others may be taking a bath there are a few who see the market conditions and figure out a way to use to their advantage. As I was reading Transparent Real Estate today I found a post about a company that is doing just that. Foreclosureradar.com is … (4 comments)
A colleague of mine brought a recent article in the Wall Street Journal to my attention about a new association called Hope Now. It is comprised of a number of major lenders, banks, credit counselors, and other organizations. They want to try and ease the sub-prime fallout by providing help, information, and resources to homeowners who may be facing foreclosure. They are also working with the US Treasury Department to temporarily freeze sub-prime mortgages to try and stem the tide of foreclosures. ;)
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