Citigroup and JP Morgan Suspend Foreclosure Both Citigroup Inc. (C: 3.58 -0.83%) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM: 25.2804 -3.47%) announced Friday they have enacted temporary foreclosure moratoriums. Green Depot: Another Signal 'Eco' is Moving Mainstream On Thursday an “eco-Home Depot� opened in Manhat...

First, you got Fannie-Freddie duo decided to suspend foreclosures during the holiday from November 26 to January 9, 2009. Fannie and Freddie are hardly alone in this foreclosure holiday (halt, time out, break or whatever you call it). Here's the gift from Fannie, via website. The temporary suspensio...

Sometime last week, a Federal Housing Administration official talked something about that they wanted to take buyers' subsidy program aka 'down-payment assistance' or in their jargon 'DAP' program off the table because of higher rates in foreclosures. “Data clearly demonstrates that FHA loans made...

A measure of market activity shows that when prices decline housing sales sizzles. The observation is based on current market (raw numbers) indicators from MRIS. You'll see below that market shows signs of improvement for Washington DC and Northern Virginia. In other words - sales 'picked up.' [Rele...

These numbers are based on home sold (all types) in Washington DC and Northern Virginia that includes Arlington, Alexandria City, Falls Church, Fairfax (all of Fairfax county), Fairfax City and Loudoun County. The stats tell-it-all that the percentage of short-sale properties that actually went to c...

MONTHLY indicators from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors on the resale side, shows that home prices, units sold were among the lowest except the homes supply that is on the rise. The average sales (units sold) for the month of March was the lowest in a three-year period from 2005 to 200...

  Image: USA Today Rates fall, mortgage applications jump but, it didn't help housing market much. Since two-third of all applications is refinancing. The seasonally adjusted refinancing index up 16.9% in the week ending January 18 to 4,178.2, according to Mortgage Bankers Association. Because ...

Forbes has come up with the list of blue chip real estate investments. The criteria for the selection is "..well establish neighborhoods that have held on to and increased in value over a 17 year period."  They're looking at data dates back to 1990. The return derived from using long ...