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The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.
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The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.
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Major banks are agreeing to give local governments and nonprofit groups the ability to buy foreclosed homes before they are sold to private investors.
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Mortgage applications rose 2.7 percent last week as more borrowers took advantage of the lowest rates in decades to reduce their monthly loan payments.
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A broad swath of homeowners — those not headed for the worst-case scenario of foreclosure — are nonetheless grappling with the impact of lost home equity.
Home prices rose in June for the third straight month amid a burst of home-buying due to tax incentives that have since expired.
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You look back 10 years, what did you get? A little bit cleaner and deeper in debt. With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, that’s a brief synopsis of how U.S. home life has changed during the past decade.
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The Obama administration has not decided whether it should resurrect a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said.
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Foreclosures are helping to thin the ranks of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth, new data shows.
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One in 10 American households with a mortgage was at risk of foreclosure this summer as the government's efforts to help have had little impact stemming the housing crisis.
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The Empire State Building's owner has lost his bid to stop a new skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood.
New home sales fell 12.4 percent in July to the slowest pace on record, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, confirming that the U.S. housing market continues to falter.
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Sales of previously occupied homes plunged in July to their lowest level in more than a decade, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
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Summer is still in full swing and the homes in this edition of Closing Costs let you enjoy every second of it.
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Nearly half of homeowners seeking help from the Obama administration's flagship effort to help those at risk of foreclosure have fallen out of the program.
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Big banks have finally realized that the mortgage malaise won't stop spreading throughout their loan books until barrier walls are erected. They've started providing better workout solutions than those offered by the federal government. The question now is whether progress has come too late.
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The house on the 53rd block of South Wood Street in Chicago's Back of the Yards doesn't look like a $355,000 home. There is no front door and most of the windows are boarded up.
As mortgage interest rates fall to record-low levels, many homeowners are taking advantage by refinancing from 30-year loans to 15- and 20-year terms.
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More than a quarter of Americans currently renting houses and apartments have no intention to ever buy a home, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be abolished rather than reformed, Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee, said on Tuesday.
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Mortgage applications leaped last week as rock-bottom rates lifted demand for home refinancing loans to its highest level in 15 months, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
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The Obama administration will pick the brains of housing finance leaders on how to fix Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Tuesday.
Housing construction edged up 1.7 percent in July but applications for building permits fell, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
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Homebuilder confidence dropped for the third straight month in August as the struggling economy and a flood of cheap foreclosed properties kept people from buying new homes.
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More Americans fell into foreclosure in July as a sour job market kept them from making payments, and banks took over homes at a near record pace.
From the BP oil spill to tornados whipping through Middle America, it seems that disasters loom everywhere. What happens to real estate markets when they strike so close to home?
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The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation's toughest job markets.
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A smaller percentage of U.S. homeowners were saddled with "underwater mortgages" in the second quarter, real estate website Zillow.com said Monday.
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