NAR: Proactive Disaster Insurance Needed

NAR: Proactive Disaster Insurance Needed

Realtor.org - U.S. policy toward natural catastrophe risk is largely reactive and a comprehensive, forward-looking national natural disaster policy is needed, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTOR® said in testimony to two House panels today. Read Article...
How to Prospect Expired Listings

How to Prospect Expired Listings

Realty Times - Dirk Zeller - Prospecting expired listings can be the core of anyone's business in the real estate field. You can create a system that will give you repeatable results for your effort. Let's look at these three very positive characteristics in prospecting expired listings. Read Articl...
New Round of Foreclosures Threatens Housing Market

New Round of Foreclosures Threatens Housing Market

Washington Post - Renae Merle - The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize. Read Article...
HUD Moves Forward on Housing Credit Tenant Data Collection Also Post on Associations

HUD Moves Forward on Housing Credit Tenant Data Collection Also Post on Associations

NCSHA - On February 24, HUD published a Federal Register notice soliciting comments on its proposed tenant and project data forms for collecting data on Low Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) tenants and properties.  The Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 requires each state C...
Trump The Recession With Smart Real Estate Deals

Trump The Recession With Smart Real Estate Deals

Forbes - Donald Trump Jr. - Given the economic calamity we're living through, with much of the problem rooted in the troubled housing market, I'll bet you're not eager to buy real estate. I think that's a mistake. Read Article...
Flow of Funds Report: Mortgage Debt Declines by $53B in Q4

Flow of Funds Report: Mortgage Debt Declines by $53B in Q4

Calculated Risk - According to the Fed, household net worth is now off $11.8 Trillion from the peak in 2007, but up $5.0 trillion from the trough last year. A majority of the decline in net worth is from real estate assets with a loss of about $7.0 trillion in value from the peak. Stock market losse...
Retail Sales Look Strong as Consumer Makes Comeback

Retail Sales Look Strong as Consumer Makes Comeback

CNBC - (Source: Reuters) - Sales at U.S. retailers rose unexpectedly in February despite a drop in vehicle purchases and inclement weather that was expected to curtail shopping, bolstering hopes of a sustainable economic recovery. Read Article...
Lower Delinquency in Commercial Loans

Lower Delinquency in Commercial Loans

Realtor Mag - (Source: AP) - The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that commercial mortgages were among the best-performing loans and leases held by banks and thrifts in the last three months of 2009. Read Article...
Cuomo Caused Mortgage Meltdown, Now He Wants To Be New York’s Governor?

Cuomo Caused Mortgage Meltdown, Now He Wants To Be New York’s Governor?

Appraisal Scoop - (Source: Washington Examiner) - After leaving HUD, Cuomo went on to become New York's attorney general and now, like his famous father before him, he is all but officially seeking to be the Empire State's governor. That job has in the past been a springboard to much bigger things, ...
Kansas City, Facing Bankruptcy, Closing Half Its Schools

Kansas City, Facing Bankruptcy, Closing Half Its Schools

CNBC - (Source: AP) - Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools. Read Article...

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