Fix that Foreclosure Next Door

Fix that Foreclosure Next Door Few things are more frustrating than trying to sell a home that sits beside a vacant foreclosure or short sale; would be buyers can be frightened away by overgrown lawns, vacant homes and a property that looks abandoned.  Here is what you can – and can’t – legally do to… Read More

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Top 10 Local Stories: Looking back at the year we went for broke (The Source Weekly)

Bank Bust The fallout from the national housing market implosion was the financial story of the year. Billions of dollars in bailout money for big banks and foreclosure notes for families with leaking adjustable rate mortgages. And the story dominated headlines, certainly for the first half of the year. Closer to home, local banks, many of whom were heavily leveraged in Bend’s volatile housing …

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First Hill apartment towers may proceed despite foreclosure notice (Builder Magazine)

Dec. 1–Bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers has moved to foreclose on property on Seattle’s First Hill where a California developer plans to build a two-tower, 310-unit apartment complex.

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8 large S. Arizona apartment complexes are in foreclosure (Arizona Daily Star)

Eight large-scale apartment complexes in Southern Arizona have gone into foreclosure on $90 million worth of loans made during the peak of the market.

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Top 5: Portland posts fourth-biggest Septebmer decline in Case-Shiller index (The Oregonian)

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Also in Tuesday’s Top 5 real estate stories: Beardsley’s company files bankruptcy to save Jazz de Opus building from foreclosure / 15% of Portland-area home owners underwater in September / Negative equity bigger predictor of loan default than unemployment / From bad to worse for hoteliers

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