40 percent of home sales are foreclosures – Times-Georgian


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40 percent of home sales are foreclosures
Times-Georgian
by Winston Jones/Times-Georgian Foreclosed homes account for about 40 percent of all home sales in Carroll County, according to data released Wednesday by RealtyTrac, a leading national online foreclosure marketplace. According to third quarter 2011
Orlando 3Q foreclosed homes accounted for 21% of all salesBizjournals.com
Sales of foreclosed homes plunge in Martin, St. LucieTCPalm
Foreclosures made up 20% of home sales in 3QCNN
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Foreclosure settlement punishes hard work – Dailyrecord.com


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Foreclosure settlement punishes hard work
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Obama administration's criticism of bank foreclosures, decided to sue the nation's five largest mortgage lenders, accusing them of deceptive foreclosure practices that “drove homeowners out of their homes,” according to an Associated Press story.
Mortgage lenders offers states new terms for draft settlement over mass Fox News
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Walking away from home may cost more – MarketWatch

Walking away from home may cost more
MarketWatch
So you are going to see a big stop in foreclosures. In November, Carolyn Gage moved back into the foreclosed home from which she was evicted in early 2011 — the home her father built, and where she grew up. But is that a viable strategy for struggling

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Man Occupying Foreclosed Home with Family Asks Sheriff Not to Arrest Him – Valley News

Man Occupying Foreclosed Home with Family Asks Sheriff Not to Arrest Him
Valley News
RIVERSIDE – A Riverside man occupying a home from which he and his family were evicted in a foreclosure said today that he's trying to negotiate to get the property back and hoped that, in the meantime, Riverside County sheriff's deputies wouldn't

Preckwinkle checks out Evanston’s progress in rehabbing foreclosed properties – Chicago Tribune


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Preckwinkle checks out Evanston's progress in rehabbing foreclosed properties
Chicago Tribune
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle visited Evanston on Thursday morning for a tour of how the city has spent an $18 million federal grant to be used for rehabbing foreclosed properties. After a brief overview of the federal Neighborhood
Preckwinkle tours site of Evanston housing programTribLocal

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Candidates unloved in FL town hit by foreclosures – Boston.com


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Candidates unloved in FL town hit by foreclosures
Boston.com
Mitt Romney campaigns in front of a foreclosed home in Lehigh Acres, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) By Tamara Lush Associated Press / January 26, 2012 LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.—At Our Daily Bread Food Pantry, the conversation often
Romney greets big crowd in Lehigh AcresLehigh Acres Citizen
Romney holds housing event in LehighNBC2 News

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Foreclosure-Ridden Florida Listens for Republican Housing Plans – San Francisco Chronicle


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Foreclosure-Ridden Florida Listens for Republican Housing Plans
San Francisco Chronicle
Instead, he expects foreclosure. Republican presidential candidates campaigning in Florida before its Jan. 31 primary are seeking votes in the state with the highest rate of home loans that are delinquent or in foreclosure. Yet Romney, Newt Gingrich,
Foreclosure-Ridden Florida Waits to Hear What Republicans Plan for HousingBloomberg

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Habitat for Humanity to foreclose up to 25 Cleveland homes – Plain Dealer (blog)


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Habitat for Humanity to foreclose up to 25 Cleveland homes
Plain Dealer (blog)
By Regina Garcia Cano, The Plain Dealer Plain Dealer fileThe local chapter of the Christian nonprofit group Habitat for Humanity announced today that 25 properties in Cleveland could be foreclosed. These volunteers worked on a Habitat house in

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Sale prices for foreclosed homes in Michigan are rising – Michigan Radio

Sale prices for foreclosed homes in Michigan are rising
Michigan Radio
By Steve Carmody The prices home buyers are paying for repossessed homes are rising in Michigan. One analyst says it might be a sign that the real estate market may finally have hit bottom. Formerly foreclosed homes have saturated the market in

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In Mecca of Foreclosed Homes, Romney Links Gingrich to Housing Crisis – ABC News (blog)


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In Mecca of Foreclosed Homes, Romney Links Gingrich to Housing Crisis
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Standing in front of a foreclosed home in a Florida suburb, Mitt Romney continued his attacks on Newt Gingrich, tying the former speaker's work at mortgage giant Freddie Mac to the dire state of the neighborhood in which he spoke.
Much heat, little light on housing in Florida debateChicago Tribune
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In Lehigh Acre, Mitt Romney talks foreclosures, Newt's 'historian' contractMiamiHerald.com (blog)
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