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Bank of America offering up to $20,000 to some homeowners as Short Sale incenctive

Bank of America, the nation's largest mortgage servicer, is offering Florida homeowners up to $20,000 to short sale their homes rather than letting them linger in foreclosure. The limited time offer has received little promotion from the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, … Continue reading

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October’s Maine Foreclosure List is available upon request

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Bank of America’s getting help to hurt homeowners in high places

  What's the worse than Bank of America acting as if it deserves immunity from all its  bad foreclosure behavior? A presidential administration that agrees. President Obama's administration is putting pressure on New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman to give into … Continue reading

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Federal foreclosure initiative involves renting foreclosed homes

  A federal initiative to have investors buy and rent out thousands of government-owned homes to prevent foreclosures is drawing cautious optimism locally. The intent is to help stabilize falling home prices, particularly in neighborhoods hit by foreclosures. Local real … Continue reading

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Buying Maine Short Sales: Understanding the Short Sale Addendum will make or break your deal!

This is a new era, a new day and age of Maine Real Estate negotiation. One aspect to the Real Estate transaction is Contract Negotiation. When a homebuyer and seller agree to a purchase price and general terms, this is laid … Continue reading

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Shadow Inventory is piling up while Foreclosure sales dip

Short Sales and negative equity will continue for a couple more years This staggering 50 to 1 ratio of 90 days or more delinquent properties and those currently in foreclosure vs. distressed sales is the latest estimate of Lender Processing … Continue reading

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Banks have a new remedy to America’s ailing housing market: Bulldozers.

      Meredith Jenks / Getty Images     Banks have a new remedy to America's ailing housing market: Bulldozers. There are nearly 1.7 million homes in the U.S. in some state of foreclosure. Banks already own some of … Continue reading

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