For the 28th month in a row, filings for foreclosure increased and mortgage issues are well expected to carry on into the next year. But experts from MSN say that if it plummets this fast, then recovery will be faster than expected. More than half a million homes were either in the process of foreclosure or were foreclosed. Now, talk about a million families who spent the first quarter homeless.

MSN placed in their website a Home Affordability Calculator wherein you could input your personal finances on the blank spaces and MSN could calculate the house that your budget can permit. Might as well check it out as it might help you.

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The saying that says, “Where there’s muck, there’s gold”, so is it in the housing market where local banks are fueling the home sales markets with moves to sell out their excess of foreclosed homes that fell victim to ill-loans approved by corrupt loan officers. The sales of such homes turns tangible assets back into fluid currency for use in other business they have to partake in. (more…)

Bad home loans are sending tons of banks out of business, unable to recover from lost capital that went to fuel the housing market when it boomed a few years back. Now, unable to recover investments into housing developments, these small-scale banks that have minimal cash reserves unlike national or multinationals have little to ask help from, facing default on their business should they not get enough help from the Federal government. (more…)

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New York City, the plushest state in the US, has once again made the headlines; and this one’s no different than the previous ones.

Homes were 28% more expensive than the earlier reports and the results? Sales plummeted to about 22%. Unbelievably, the typical price of houses in Manhattan sky rockets to $1.6 million and obviously, the average Joe can’t afford it. More so with co-ops and condominiums as they rose to about 96% with the average cost being $2.1 million.

New Yorkers both have mixed emotions about it. They wouldn’t know if they should feel happy that the market value of their houses are increasing per annum, or quite worried as to how will it be in the future.

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Ironically, the state that focuses on gambling as its main tourist attraction is the state that currently has the largest number of foreclosed properties in the past month all over the United States. RealtyTrac said that in every 139 houses, 1 house is either listed as foreclosed or is in the process of being foreclosed. Looking under the lenses of macro statistics, it shows that the foreclosure rate of houses in the United States was up by 5% from February to March. But apart from Nevada, states like Georgia, Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan and Maryland seem to follow the same trend.

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by: Christine Zafra

South Florida is having a crisis: the prices of houses are dropping and a lot of homes are being foreclosed by banks due to non-payment of mortgage. Many families have already suffered and will continuously suffer if this trend will persist. And if foreclosed houses are aggregated, the real estate market value of South Florida will soon find itself in great jeopardy.

The Congress however, has an idea: to deduct a $7,000.00 tax credit for those who will buy properties that are foreclosed. Although they weren’t really able to target the cause of the problem (existing foreclosures), they hoped that through this measure, a lot of prospective buyers will be encourage to acquire foreclosed properties.

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