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Vacant homes from the foreclosure crisis are being blamed for creating blight in neighborhoods across the country and even presenting safety issues for those who live nearby. While vacant homes are blamed for dragging selling prices down, home owners who live nearby report that not enough is being mentioned about the affects these deteriorating homes has on them. The abandoned homes are often left to deteriorate during a lengthy foreclosure process, causing lawns to become overgrown, roofs to leak, animals to move inside, and more. Neighbors complain that the vacant […]

San Francisco lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a possible building code change that could allow some of the tiniest apartments in the country. The new apartments could be as small as 220 square feet, which would include a kitchen, closet, and bathroom. For those looking for something a bit bigger, then consider checking other options like these 2 bedroom apartments.  In San Francisco, current building codes require that just a living room alone be 220 square feet. Those in favor of the micro units say that the smaller two bedroom […]

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Homebuilding for single-family homes was at its fastest pace in more than two years during August, as the new-home market continues on in recovery mode. Homebuilders should then partner with reliable contractors and suppliers of construction materials, as well as companies that provide scaffolding rental services, in order to keep up with the demand. Each construction site should be protected by construction site security services provided by a construction site security company to avoid any criminal activities that can impede with the construction schedule. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that single-family […]

More than 20 million rental households spent more than 30 percent of their income last year on rents. In fact, more than half of those renters spent at least half their income on housing, “severely burdening” their finances, according to Census data. Rents have been on the rise the last few years as demand surges. In the past seven years, median rent payments have soared nearly 20 percent from $728 to $871. Sme markets have seen double-digit increases in rent in just the last year, such as in cities like […]

More home owners are finding their mortgages more manageable as fewer home owners default on their mortgage, according to Standard & Poor’s and Experian credit data. This marks the eighth consecutive month that the number of people defaulting on their mortgage has dropped. In fact, according to S&P and Experian, default rates are now meeting post-recession lows. The rate for first mortgage defaults was 1.4 percent in August compared to 1.92 percent a year ago. The default rate on second mortgages dropped 0.72 percent in August compared to July. The […]

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is proposing charging more for mortgages in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York because it takes longer in these states for banks to foreclose. The rationale is that the longer it takes a lender to repossess the collateral behind a mortgage, the higher the potential costs. Although the fees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge would only rise by 0.15 to 0.3 percentage point of the loan amount, creating state-level mortgage pricing could set a new precedent.   The author of this article […]

The median list price was at $190,000 in August, dropping 2.51 percent from July, Realtor.com reports in its August housing data of 146 markets. However, a limited inventory of homes for-sale are helping to push prices up in many areas. “The recovery process, which began a year ago in Florida and has since spread to the West, continued to gain traction in August, with list-price gains in most California markets, as well as other hard-hit metros such as Phoenix.; Boise City, Idaho; Seattle and Reno, Nev.,” Realtor.com reported in a […]

Fannie Mae announced that it will no longer be using third-party management vendors and sales teams to help manage its REO properties. The mortgage giant will now be handling the management of its REO inventories through its in-house staff. “We have reduced our REO inventory from 162,489 properties at the start of 2011 to 109,266 as of June 30, 2012,” Fannie Mae officials told HousingWire in an e-mail. “With a reduced inventory of properties, Fannie Mae’s in-house teams now have sufficient capacity to manage our REO properties without the assistance of third […]