Washington Foreclosures News:


The Associated Press

AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash
The Associated Press - 7 hours ago
"Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to US regulators in January 2006, about one year ...

Fighting foreclosure: How one couple got caught in mortgage crisis
HeraldNet, WA - 7 hours ago
The settlement showcases the increasing efforts of the government to reduce home foreclosures, which continue to bring down the housing market. ...

Sweden's Path, Not Japan's, Can Guide Cleanup
Wall Street Journal - 10 hours ago
Any recovery will have to unfold amid recessionary conditions that began at home and spread around the globe. The US has acted swiftly but erratically, ...

Must deal with foreclosures
Yuma Sun, AZ - 16 hours ago
Governments have to step in and, regardless of the cost, stop home foreclosures cold. There is no sense in assigning guilt. Whether home buyers were foolish ...

Janesville native gives best effort in war on foreclosures
Janesville Gazette, WI - 23 hours ago
30--WASHINGTON -- When Steve Preston took over as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development this summer, he inherited an agency tainted ...

Straits Times

Mortgage relief gets stuck
Cape Cod Times, MA - Nov 29, 2008
At the center of today's economic and credit crisis is the rising tide of home foreclosures, which government agencies and some large banks are trying to ...
US Details $800 Billion Loan Plans New York Times
New Bailout Focus: How To Fight Foreclosures The Fulton County News
Consumer relief could take months under Fed plan Reuters
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Ratings agencies accused in civil rights action
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Nov 29, 2008
(11-29) 04:00 PST Washington -- In what is apparently the first legal action of its kind, an association of community-based organizations has filed a ...

Churches urge more help for home owners
United Press International - Nov 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A coalition of faith-based groups is lobbying the US government to do more to reduce the number of home foreclosures. ...

Real News Network

Relief slow to homeowners facing foreclosure
Real News Network, NY - Nov 27, 2008
VOICEOVER: Kurt Seastead recently bought a foreclosed home that previous owners trashed before leaving. Seastead expects to pay $20000 to repair the kitchen ...

US MBA’s Mortgage Applications Index Rose 1.5% Last Week
Bloomberg - Nov 26, 2008
The housing slump will probably extend well into a fourth year as borrowers find it difficult to obtain mortgage loans and foreclosures worsen the glut of ...