Joplin Real Estate News

Saturday Jan 14 | via North Port Sun 

The Punta Gorda metropolitan area, which includes all of Charlotte County, was added this month to a list of 76 cities with real estate markets that are "on the road to recovery," according to an index compiled by a national builders group.

Related Topix: Charlotte County, FL, Real Estate, Punta Gorda, FL, Housing

Jan 1, 2012 | via Springfield News Leader 

Thelma and Don Epperson look at their new bedroom in their new home for the first time in Joplin Dec.

Related Topix: Joplin, MO, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Dec 27, 2011 | via The Joplin Independent 

As 2011 comes to a close and many begin to look forward to the New Year, Joplin has a reason to be hopeful.

Related Topix: Joplin, MO, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Dec 21, 2011 | via Watersblogged 

Via Zero Hedge: Just the headlines for now: EXISTING U.S. HOME SALES REVISED DOWN BY 14% FROM 2007-2010 EXISTING HOME SALES REVISED DOWN BY 15% IN 2010 TO 4.19 MLN Thank you NAR for proving what everyone knew: that the US housing market is one big lie.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Home, Home Selling, Joplin, MO, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Dec 18, 2011 | via The Spokesman-Review 

In the middle of winter, when the temperature slips toward zero and bone-numbing winds blow in off the prairie, living in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer may not be hell - it's way too cold for that - but as the saying goes, you can see it from here.

Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, FEMA, US News, Minot State University, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Friday | via Kansas City InfoZine 

Missouri's participation in a landmark national mortgage settlement that will bring more than $196 million to Missouri taxpayers and the state Jefferson City, MO - infoZine - The joint federal-state agreement addresses allegations of foreclosure abuses, unfair mortgage servicing practices, and fraud by the nation's five largest mortgage servicers: ... (more)

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, Foreclosures, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Jay Nixon, US Governors

Friday | via The Kansas City Star 

Gifts that keep givingIt’s been a good week for Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. First, he gets $41 million dropped into his general fund as part of a settlement with big banks over unscrupulous mortgage-lending practices.

Related Topix: Missouri, Jay Nixon, US Governors, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, Opinion

Friday | via Springfield News Leader 

The Attorney General's Office launched a special hotline for consumers to get more information about the settlement.

Related Topix: Home, Missouri, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri Government, Foreclosures

Thursday Feb 9 | via KSDK-TV Saint Louis 

St. Louis - Five mortgage companies just signed on for a $26 billion settlement and you could be entitled to some of it.

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

Thursday | via Missourian 

Missourians will receive $195 million from a national settlement over home foreclosure abuses among most states, the federal government and mortgage lenders.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, Missouri Government, Foreclosures

Friday | via Scoop 

"The period from 2012 to 2017 will see the construction industry flourish as it did between 2002 and 2007, but for different reasons," he says.

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

8 min ago | via The Huffington Post 

If the 'settlement' involving mortgage foreclosure practices is supposed to be good news for the country, I must have missed something.

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

52 min ago | via PennLive.com 

For most of us, Valentine's Day represents either a sweet time of romance or a hokey holiday drummed up by retailers to make a buck.

Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

Sacramento developer Angelo K. Tsakopoulos on Thursday blamed a lenders agent for the loan default on an office complex Tsakopoulos controls, saying the agent was unwilling to negotiate an extension on the debt.

Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Foreclosures

1 hr ago | via FiveThirtyEight 

Members of the military services who lost their homes in unfair foreclosures have won a big victory - and will receive big payouts - in the comprehensive settlement of mortgage litigation that was reached last week.

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