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Mortgage foreclosure settlement In a historic deal after repeated delays and over a year of negotiations, the Justice Department, U.S. Department of Housing and...
Trulia Local released Today, real estate search site Trulia is announcing the final destination of several projects coming together, like hourly crime reporting in...
A shift in foreclosures CoreLogic released its first national Foreclosure Report which provides monthly data on completed foreclosures, foreclosure inventory and 90+ delinquency rates,...
Simplified search going national Last fall, AGBeat introduced you to Lovely, the San Francisco rental search startup with big plans and were named two...
Housing plan helps one million The U.S. Treasury Department reported today that since the Obama administration launched their foreclosure prevention program in 2009, nearly...
Foreclosure abuses In light of increasing reports of foreclosure abuses, the city government of Berkeley, California is considering pulling their $350 million out of...
Applications decrease According to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, the volume of mortgage applications dropped 2.9 percent from the week...
New real estate community for brokers Founded by Colorado Realtors, Nathan Froelich and Eric Sachs, Breakthrough Broker has launched as a comprehensive online resource...
Windermere’s strategic hire Today, Geoff Wood, CEO of Windermere Real Estate announced that Scott Mitchelson, formerly Vice President of National Franchise Sales at Realogy...
FHFA pulls the trigger After an extended period of talking about selling off their massive inventory of foreclosed properties (Real Estate Owned properties, or...
Brokers pulling listings We reported last week that San Diego-based Abbot Realty Group (ARG) President and Managing Broker, Jim Abbott released a video on...
Home prices dip November home prices drop lower than expectations, falling 1.3 percent in November, according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city report. Of the...
Back to normal? Referring to current mortgage and commercial real estate loan delinquency rates released by the Federal Reserve, Texas Real Estate Center’s Chief...
2012 leadership team Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to...