Tucson Real Estate News

5 hrs ago | via Tucson Weekly 

The number of foreclosures in Pima County hit a record high in 2009. The number of trustee-sale notices will approach 12,000, while the number of homes actually sold at auction will reach approximately 5,500, up about one-third from 2008 - and almost nine times higher than the number in 2006.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pima County, AZ, Tucson, AZ

13 hrs ago | via The Arizona Daily Star 

A former Tucson real estate agent faces up to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that he admitted involved taking out fake loans to inflate local home values.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Tucson, AZ, Federal Prisons, Prison, Home, Mortgage

Sunday Dec 13 | via Arizona Daily Star 

Realtor Shirley York has rejoined Long Realty in the company's Sierra Vista office, specializing primarily in the Cochise County area.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Sierra Vista, AZ, Cochise County, AZ, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tucson, AZ

Thursday Dec 10 | via Arizona Daily Star 

Forbes.com says the Tucson area provides more "bang for the buck" than the Phoenix area's Valley of the Sun for anyone looking to settle in Arizona.

Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Tucson, AZ, Foreclosures, Pima County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ

Monday Dec 7 | via East Valley Tribune 

It may not achieve the same psychic level of bragging rights as the Arizona Wildcats slipping past the Arizona State Sun Devils in their annual football matchup.

Related Topix: Tucson, AZ, Phoenix, AZ, Foreclosures, Pima County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

Saturday Dec 12 | via AZCentral.com 

Home appraisers are expected - and trusted - to provide honest and accurate reports on a property's value for the buyer, seller and lender.

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

Saturday Dec 12 | via Azcentral.com 

The state economy in the past month remained in its usual ambivalent mood, not sure if it wanted to get better or worse.

Related Topix: Arizona, Arizona Government, Housing, Arizona State University, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Thursday Dec 10 | via KTAR 

If it seems like there are a large amount of foreclosed homes in the Valley your eyes are not deceiving you.

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

Tuesday Dec 8 | via Azcentral.com 

A slowly improving U.S. economy should ease credit-card and mortgage delinquencies in 2010, but the improvement won't show up in Arizona.That's the prediction from credit bureau TransUnion, which singles out Arizona as the only state likely to have rising delinquencies on credit cards and home loans.The national mortgage picture is slowly improving ...

Related Topix: Arizona, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Chandler, AZ, Gilbert, AZ, Business News

Thursday Dec 3 | via The Bugle 

Arizona will continue to lose jobs well into next year and may not get back to 2007 levels of employment until 2013 or beyond, Lee McPheters predicted Wednesday.

Related Topix: Arizona, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home, Maricopa County, AZ

4 min ago | via Seattle Medium 

Editor's Note : Upon the 25th year of Rev. Jesse Jackson's first run for president of the United States, we asked him to write his thoughts on the state of Black America at this point in history, focusing on the question, Where Do We Go From Here? It's been big month.

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

4 min ago | via Southeast Missourian 

This is my first post as The Real Estate Guy, and I have to say I'm a bit intimidated by it all.

Related Topix: Home Buying, Tax

4 min ago | via Reuters 

Bank of America Corp on Wednesday tapped insider Brian Moynihan as its next chief executive, ending months of speculation about who would succeed Kenneth Lewis to lead the largest U.S. bank.

Related Topix: Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Annandale, NJ, Bank of New York, Home, Mortgage, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

6 min ago | via Living Here - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee 

Bank of America's board has selected Brian Moynihan as the bank's new chief executive, spokesman Bob Stickler said Wednesday evening.

Related Topix: Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services, BlackRock, Home, Mortgage, US Politics, Elijah Cummings, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

15 min ago | via The Nation 

Recently, Bruce Marks, a former regulator who is the founder and CEO of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America --a community advocacy and homeownership organization-- testified to Congress about the ability of federal regulators to stop foreclosures by forcing banks to the negotiating table with homeowners.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Mortgage, Home