Bunnell Real Estate News

Yesterday | via The News-Journal 

The dismal economy hovered over the Volusia-Flagler business scene in 2009 like a black cloud that refused to blow away.

Related Topix: Daytona Beach, FL, 9, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Foreclosures

Yesterday | via The News-Journal 

A couple of things we can't do anything about -- the economy and the weather -- dominated the Top 10 local stories of 2009 in Volusia and Flagler counties, chosen in a survey of News-Journal editors and reporters.

Related Topix: Best of 2007, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Foreclosures, Florida

Wednesday Dec 23 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

Area home resales rose 84 percent in November, duplicating a statewide trend and far surpassing national sales figures, according to information released Tuesday by Realtors' groups.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Deland, FL, Housing, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Thursday Dec 10 | via Florida Trend 

"It used to be the three D's. Death, disability and divorce were the causes of foreclosures." -- Judge William Parsons, one of four Volusia County circuit judges hearing foreclosure cases .

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Flagler County, FL

Wednesday Dec 9 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

November's foreclosure activity across Volusia and Flagler counties more than doubled compared with last year.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

9 min ago | via The Miami Herald 

Last October, Countrywide Financial, the now defunct subprime mortgage giant that merged with Bank of America a year ago, promised $1 billion in mortgage relief to its legions of struggling Florida customers.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Florida, Florida Government, Marketing

31 min ago | via South Florida Business Journal 

The days of simply hanging out a shingle and opening up a loan modification business are coming to an end in Florida.

Related Topix: Florida, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Miami Dade County, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

1 hr ago | via South Florida Business Journal 

Plagued by an ever-increasing number of foreclosure cases, Florida judges now have guidance on how to deal with them through a statewide mediation program.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

6 hrs ago | via CBS 4 

People who are looking to modify their loans might want to wait until a new law goes into effect on the stroke of midnight December 31st to get the most protection.

Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

14 hrs ago | via The Orlando Sentinel 

Facing one of the worst foreclosure crises in the nation, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince ordered judges statewide on Monday to starting sending foreclosure cases to a new "managed mediation" program in which financially strapped homeowners can try to negotiate a way out of losing their homes.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lake County, FL

3 min ago | via Curbed SF 

A legend on the market: Chicken John , onetime mayoral candidate and general rabble-rouser , is selling his famous warehouse on the Mission/Bernal Heights border.

Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Home, Mortgage

5 min ago | via Hindustan Times 

"I will never forgive my son. I want the law to punish him," says 61-year-old Habiba Khan.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Mira Road, NS, Canada, Cape Breton Regional Municip., NS, Nova Scotia

6 min ago | via The Boston Globe 

A mortgage lender arranges mortgage financing for borrowers that have or will have property to pledge as the collateral for a loan.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Home Listing

7 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

Fannie Mae's November 2009 Monthly Summary is now available at www.fanniemae.com/ir/monthly . The monthly summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.

Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via Inman Real Estate News 

Flickr image by fazen . Our family has it backwards. Every year, about the time the mall queues its first seasonal song track -- the one about the being home for the holidays -- we start plotting our exit strategy.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Opinion