Spring Real Estate News

Friday May 10 | via National Review Online 

AEI released an excellent paper this week by Tanya Marsh and Joseph Norman, " The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community Banks ," detailing the damage the financial reform bill has inflicted on these important institutions.

Related Topix: Personal Finance, Spring, TX, Big Spring, TX, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

Tuesday Apr 23 | via The San Diego Union-Tribune 

A foreclosure home for sale is shown in this Aug. 22, 2006 file photo taken in Spring, Texas.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Spring, TX, Housing

Apr 17, 2013 | via Houston Press 

Missouri City resident Glynda Williams, a career letter carrier for the United States Postal Service, has invested a little here and there in real estate.

Related Topix: Missouri City, TX, Shakedown, House, Harris County, TX, Foreclosures, Houston, TX, Energy, Enron

Apr 12, 2013 | via Houston Chronicle 

At the recent 2013 annual conference of the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World , Heritage Texas Properties was the recipient of the 2012 "Customer Experience: Transaction of the Year" brokerage award, on behalf of its top-producing sales team, Nancy Scott and Rebecque Demark .

Related Topix: Harris County, TX, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Mar 3, 2013 | via Boston Herald 

Jeanette Ogle, a 92-year-old widow with a reverse mortgage on her house, got a huge birthday surprise last week: She did not lose her home at a scheduled foreclosure auction that had drawn scrutiny from federal and state agencies and consumer advocates.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Health, AARP, Spring, TX

Friday | 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, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Dallas, TX

Thursday May 16 | 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

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

Friday May 17 | 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 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

4 min ago | via Fox News 

Although economic growth slowed in recent months, Fannie Mae expects a modest re-acceleration in the second half of the year as the labor market regains traction.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Business News

4 min ago | via Fox News 

Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Michael Corbat named Jane Fraser as the new head of the bank's mortgage business on Monday ,as current CitiMortgage CEO Sanjiv Das plans to leave the bank to pursue other opportunities, according to an internal memo.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, CitiMortgage, Business News

12 hrs ago | via Santa Barbara Independent 

Santa Barbara Mortgage Lender Austin Lampson joined the On Q Financial, Inc. team, serving as a Senior Mortgage Consultant to the firm.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Santa Barbara, CA, Ventura, CA

6 min ago | via Adweek 

Today, everyone does everything. You have actor-writer-rappers , dancers turned actors , pro athletes attempting to rap , and so on.

Related Topix: Real Estate

13 min ago | via Jerusalem Post 

Shaiel and Charlie Yitzhak both work hard - he as an English teacher, she as a physical therapist working with wounded Israeli soldiers.

Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Hadarom, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Religion, Orthodox Church