Bangor Real Estate News

Tuesday Dec 15 | via The Morning Call 

Lehigh Valley home sales surged in November as first-time homebuyers rushed into the market to get a tax credit before it expired.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Northampton County, PA

Monday Dec 14 | via The Morning Call 

First-time homebuyers lured by a tax credit worth up to $8,000 gave the Lehigh Valley housing market a significant boost in sales activity in September.

Related Topix: Housing, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Bethlehem, PA

Monday Dec 14 | via The Morning Call 

Lehigh Valley home sales took a big jump in October as first-time home buyers took advantage of an $8,000 tax credit, but median home prices continued to drop.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Housing, Northampton County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Foreclosures, Allentown, PA

Wednesday Dec 9 | via The Morning Call 

Club Beyond, a troubled bar in downtown Easton, has closed its doors -- not because of Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli's two-week-old pledge to shut it down, but because it's been foreclosed upon.

Related Topix: Easton, PA, Northampton County, PA, Foreclosures

Nov 24, 2009 | via WTOP 

Agent showing house finds pile of bones 11/24/2009 1:17pm A real estate agent showing a house got to the basement and found about 100 human bones in a corner.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Northampton County, PA

Thursday | via The Big Picture 

David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception.

Related Topix: Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Wednesday | via GuruFocus.com 

Prudential Bancorp Inc. of Pennsylvania filed Annual Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Prudential Bancorp, Inc.

Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Tuesday Dec 22 | via WGAL-TV 

If you're in the market for a new home, there's a new state wide mortgage program that will soon help connect thousands of consumers with affordable loans.

Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ed Rendell, US Governors, Pennsylvania, Financial Services

Tuesday Dec 22 | via MyFoxPhilly 

Governor Ed Rendell Tuesday announced a new $1.2 billion statewide mortgage program to help more than 11,000 homebuyers with affordable loans that will also help boost Pennsylvania's economy.

Related Topix: Ed Rendell, US Governors, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Financial Services, Foreclosures

Friday Dec 18 | via Miami Herald 

Two Miami-Dade physicians could be going to prison for lengthy terms after a federal jury found them guilty of participating with three other convicted doctors in a Medicare racket that prescribed $19.5 million in obsolete infusion drugs for HIV patients.

Related Topix: Energy, El Paso, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Pennsylvania, Bernie Madoff

7 min ago | via WKRN-TV Nashville 

European stock markets rose modestly Wednesday on optimism about the recovery even as Wall Street remained flat, as downbeat housing data restrained any gains.

Related Topix: Housing, Financial Markets, Travel, China Travel

18 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

A look at the decade that was and the decade to come, by industry: BANKING THE PAST DECADE: The nation's big banks swaggered into the decade as owners of the world.

Related Topix: Financial Markets, Insurance, American International Group, Housing, Foreclosures

19 min ago | via Business Standard 

The US Treasury Department will remove the caps on aid to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the next three years, to allay investor concerns that the companies will exhaust the available government assistance.

Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Markets, Foreclosures

22 min ago | via Business Standard 

For journalists, pundits and comedians, the end of the year provides an opportunity to look back, fantasise forward and let the creative juices flow.

Related Topix: Journalism, Warren Buffett, Housing, Home, Mortgage

24 min ago | via Business Standard 

Wiser from last year's free fall, realty companies discovered a new mantra in 'affordable housing' and found help from banks that offered low-interest home loans to build their businesses in 2009.

Related Topix: Real Estate