There's no question in this contest buyer's win.  Buyers snap foreclosed properties left and right. That's just the reality here on the ground on foreclosed properties: if they're decent, clean, and well priced it would sell first over their competition, that is the other type ...

In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

Today, I’d like to present part of my “Prime-Bomb� thesis in more detailed terms but first I should mention that this is easily my most bearish post yet… not for the faint of heart… If you are feeling really down already, best just to skip it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… First off, ...

It’s important for real estate agents to track the percentage of listings where the homeowner is in financial distress as well as REOs (real estate owned), compared to the overall number of listings in a given market area. When short sales, pre-foreclosures, and bank-owned property make up a l...

A Michigan editorial expresses the arbitrarily leveling consequences of this recession: In its early stages, the foreclosure crisis caught up people who got mortgages for which they wouldn’t qualify under traditional lending criteria. They took out mortgages with low introductory rates and little ...

It's now been four plus years since I moved from the Las Vegas area to Orlando. Turns out that was a good choice, if only marginally. I thought I'd take a look back at how things are going in that Desert Paradise. A recent article in the Las Vegas Journal Review takes a hard look at the current tren...

What they mean. A boomburg is one of the countless cookie-cutter suburban communities that sprung up like mushrooms during the housing booms of recent decades. A boomburb is a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area. A boomburb has the look and fee...

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...

From the Sacramento Bee: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will send layoff warnings to at least 20,000 state workers Friday unless he reaches a budget agreement with legislative leaders that precludes the need for such cuts, his office announced Tuesday. The Republican governor intends to eliminate 10,000...

Three development got foreclosed. They're the victims of free falling market. These are large tracts of (residentia)l land development combined on the auction block for more than 867 acres. The three communities listed on Tranzon's website are located in Loudoun County. One of the communitie...