Mackay Real Estate News

Tuesday Dec 29 | via Today's 6 

Attorney General Lawrence Wasden says Idaho homeowners who were duped into paying a New Jersey company to help them modify their mortgages will get more than $19,000 in a settlement.

Related Topix: Idaho, Mortgage, Home

Monday Dec 28 | via KMVT Twin Falls 

The economic crisis touched nearly every aspect of life in Idaho, reaching into public school classrooms, local housing markets, the halls of the Statehouse and the courts to become the biggest news story of 2009.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Idaho

Monday Dec 28 | via KBOI-AM Boise 

More than 33,000 jobs were lost, millions of dollars cut from the state budget, and foreclosures peppered neighborhoods across the state as many Idaho residents spent 2009 hoping and praying for better times ahead.

Related Topix: Idaho, Foreclosures

Thursday Dec 24 | via Today's 6 

Twelve Idaho homeowners who paid a Meridian man, Paul Clarence Aughtry, IV, for mortgage loan modifications will receive refunds totaling $12,400 as a result of settlement agreements with State Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and the Idaho Department of Finance.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Idaho

Thursday Dec 17 | via KIVI-TV Nampa 

KIVI Today's Channel 6 News Idaho joins "Operation Stolen Hope" Attorney General Lawrence Wasden joined the Federal Trade Commission and 26 other state and federal regulatory agencies in "Operation Stolen Hope," a nationwide enforcement and consumer education effort to combat foreclosure rescue fraud.

Related Topix: Idaho, Idaho Government, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Kootenai County, ID

2 min ago | via LA Daily News 

ROSY government projections for 2010 call for a vigorous recovery across all sectors.

Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

5 min ago | via Inside Bay Area 

Banks and other lenders still are foreclosing on Americans' homes at a rate that's outpacing the Obama administration's main effort to stem the crisis.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling

Yesterday | via SOA World Magazine 

31, 2009, at his home in Coronado, Calif., after a long illness. He was 76. "Art was a legend whose actions helped to write the very history of real estate and franchising," says Century 21 Real Estate LLC President and CEO Tom Kunz.

Related Topix: Coronado, CA, Real Estate, Small Business, Personal Finance, Housing, Long Beach, CA

6 min ago | via CNN 

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that low interest rates in the first half of the last decade were "appropriate" at the time and were not the main cause of the ensuing housing bubble.

Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

13 min ago | via Bloomberg 

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said tight bank credit and caution among households and businesses may impede spending amid an improvement in financial markets.

Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Financial Markets, US News