Garland Real Estate News

Apr 13, 2012 | via Texas Tribune 

Texas legislators get paid less than the people who sack your groceries, which, when you think about it, seems perfectly rational.

Related Topix: Texas, Pension, Personal Finance, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Dallas County, TX, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

Tuesday Apr 23 | via Dallas Morning News 

Roofing work done at the DeSoto home of Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has spurred at least two lawsuits: One alleges a failure to pay and the other that the contractor did poor work and caused damage.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Dallas County, TX, DeSoto, TX, Home Listing, Home

Mar 11, 2013 | via NBC Dallas 

Real estate experts say investors are taking advantage of the recovering housing market and looking to make a profit flipping houses.

Related Topix: Garland, TX, Mesquite, TX, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Dallas, TX

Feb 7, 2013 | via Austin American-Statesman 

A national company that Williamson County has accused of cheating the government out of nearly $1 million in mortgage-transfer fees fired back on Wednesday with a letter saying county officials need to check their facts.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Williamson County, TX, Dallas County, TX

Jan 23, 2013 | via Pegasus News 

The Brits are singing the praises of our real estate market. The Financial Times has singled us out , thanks to the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, which says that Dallas and "nearby" Fort Worth: a combine to be one of only three US urban areas to have fully recovered from the recession.

Related Topix: Dallas, TX, Real Estate, Texas, Dallas County, TX

Yesterday | via Business Journal 

Some $2.5 billion in cash payments were made to 49 states and the District of Columbia to settle charges that the five largest banks in the U.S. engaged in fraudulent lending practices, resulting in illegal foreclosures nationwide.

Related Topix: Texas, Foreclosures, District of Columbia Government, Washington DC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Friday | via Fortune 

FORTUNE Only a year after the U.S. housing market hit bottom, it may be bubbling up -- again.

Related Topix: Housing, Trulia, Startups, Texas

Wednesday May 15 | via YoChicago 

An exclusive RealtyTrac housing market analysis of building permit data recently released by the U.S. Department of HUD for the first quarter, comparing it to foreclosure starts for the same time period at the national, state and city level, found the following: Nationwide single family building permits increased 27 percent from a year ago in the ... (more)

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Texas

Wednesday May 15 | via Inman 

With tight inventory stifling a full housing recovery in many markets and foreclosures slowing down, builders are responding by ramping up plans to put new homes on the market, according to an analysis of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data by RealtyTrac .

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Texas, Housing

Aug 17, 2011 | via American Reporter 

I am a believer in dreams, and when I had a waking dream a few days after the S&P downgrade of our national debt of President Obama packing his bags and leaving the White House, I was saddened for him and for my country.

Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Texas Government, Texas, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, State of the Union

18 min ago | via The Daily Irrelevant 

IT IS a lesson of the past five years that benchmarks in unregulated markets can fall victim to the incentives they create.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

37 min ago | via Patch.com 

Are you a local real estate agent? If so, or if you're a homeowner holding an open house this weekend and don't see your listing below, upload it here.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

40 min ago | via National Mortgage News 

WE'RE HEARING that it is going to take a concerted industry effort to get a legislative fix for the QM rule on loan officer compensation.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Economics News, Subprime Mortgage Crisis

44 min ago | via TheAlternativePress.com 

Wittler, a resident of West Caldwell, will provide support to clients who are self-directing their retirement plans in addition to administrative duties.

Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Roseland, NJ, West Caldwell, NJ, Caldwell, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Mortgage

54 min ago | via National Mortgage News 

Investors Continue to Drive Home Price Increase Pro Teck CEO Tom O'Grady discusses the April 2013 Home Value Forecast, featuring the Los Angeles, Atlanta and Warren, Mich.

Related Topix: Housing, Warren, MI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance