French Gulch Real Estate News

Wednesday Dec 9 | via Examiner.com 

If home prices were up all year as much as they've risen in the past two quarters, the housing market would be enjoying home price increases in the 6 percent neighborhood this year, thanks to a host of favorable factors.

Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

16 hrs ago | via NowPublic 

Stockton foreclosures for sale climbed up by 37 percent in November as the economic condition in the area continued to slump.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, California

Yesterday | via BusinessWeek 

Foreclosure filings in the U.S. will reach a record for the second consecutive year with 3.9 million notices sent to homeowners in default, RealtyTrac Inc.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, California, Irvine, CA, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Ben Bernanke

Thursday | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

Foreclosures in Washington were up 15.45 percent in November over the same period last year, according to a report from RealtyTrac, with one in every 835 homes receiving a foreclosure notice.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Washington Government, California

Thursday | via Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 

The pace of home sales at California new-home communities rose above year-ago levels for the first time since December of 2006, the California Building Industry Association reported Thursday.

Related Topix: California, Housing, Costa Mesa, CA

10 min ago | via Bloomberg.com 

With its crescent of intersecting wings and oval glass tower, the Aria casino hotel is the crown jewel of CityCenter , the Dubai-scale, $8.5 billion, celebrity- architect mega-development by MGM Mirage thata s dumping a casino and 6,000 unwanted hotel rooms on Las Vegas.

Related Topix: Media, Hotels, MGM Mirage, Foreclosures

10 min ago | via UnionLeader.com 

Aldermen on Tuesday night granted Wal-Mart the zoning changes it needed to build a supercenter and access road on unused property near South Willow Street.

Related Topix: Real Estate

11 min ago | via Daily Herald 

Regulators on Friday shut down Republic Federal Bank in Florida, the 131st to succumb so far this year as U.S. banks big and small have been undermined by sour loan portfolios and the battered economy.

Related Topix: Financial Services, Ohio, Housing

12 min ago | via WTAG-AM Paxton 

The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.

Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Home, Mortgage

13 min ago | via NewsTimesLive.com 

Old Greenwich-based Ellington Financial LLC, run by Michael Vranos's $2.5 billion hedge-fund firm, shelved its initial public offering as investors refused to finance its plan to buy bonds backed by the type of home loans that helped spur the biggest housing bust since the Great Depression.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Old Greenwich, CT, Financial Markets, Financial Services, REIT