Your Home Value Will Rebound

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Determine if your Home Value will Rebound By: Sonia Smith Nowadays, values of homes have dropped and it is no big deal to sell a home but is great to but them. Most people are hoping that values of homes will rebound. Nevertheless, no one can tell since trends differ from place to place. Some… Read More

Foreclosures-Banks Now Prefer S.S. To Foreclosures

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Banks Now Prefer Short Sales To Foreclosures Banks dealing with lengthy, complicated and frequently messy foreclosures are starting to see "short sales" as a quicker and cheaper way of getting bad loans off their books.  The nation’s biggest mortgage servicers- Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo – are beginning to step up their… Read More

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

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 …

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.