Kamuela Real Estate News

Aug 13, 2009 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

A record 990 Hawaii homes were foreclosed upon in July, a 332 percent increase over a year ago, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Maui County, HI, Hawaii County, HI

Jul 1, 2009 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

Big Island developer Brian Anderson has filed for bankruptcy again -- this time for Anekona LLC, which defaulted on a mortgage for the Coconut Grove Marketplace on the Big Island.

Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Kailua Kona, HI, Hawaii County, HI

Friday Nov 13 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

Conforming loan purchase limits under Freddie Mac will be the same for 2010 as they were in 2009, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced.

Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Thursday Nov 12 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

Hawaii foreclosures rose in October to their third highest total of the year, more than doubling from the prior year, according to data released today by the online foreclosure marketplace RealtyTrac.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Hawaii, Marketing, Kailua Kona, HI, Kihei, HI, Ewa Beach, HI

Sunday Nov 8 | via Maui News 

WAILUKU Manuel Cosma Jr. lives in Honolulu and doesn't even know some of the 23 cousins and distant relatives with whom he shares ownership of ancestral land in Hana.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Hawaii

Nov 6, 2009 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

While the U.S. economy is improving, it will be 2011 before Hawaii experiences sustained recovery, according to economists at the 40th annual First Hawaiian Bank Business Outlook Forum.

Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Hawaii Pacific University, Housing

Nov 5, 2009 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

After a 10-year court battle and decades of waiting in vain for homesteads, plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit won a judgment against the state for failing to promptly award home lots to native Hawaiians under the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust.

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

6 min ago | via Toronto News.Net 

Executives from the collapsed mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp have been accused of fraud by US regulators.

Related Topix: Financial Services, New Century Financial, Home, Mortgage, Irvine, CA

Friday Dec 4 | via CFO 

Joan Urdang - CFO.com US Juan Figuereo has been named finance chief at consumer-products maker Newell Rubbermaid Inc., replacing J. Patrick Robinson, who is retiring.

Related Topix: Newell Rubbermaid, Household Products, Beverages, Cott, UnionBanCal, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington Mutual

11 min ago | via Business Report 

Nakheel creditors may win the right to seize a strip of barren waterfront land the size of Manhattan if the company defaults on the $3.5 billion bond backing the development.

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

12 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit is pressing the U.S. Treasury Department and regulators to agree as soon as this week on a plan to pay back $20 billion remaining from a government bailout, people familiar with the matter said.

Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Bank of America, Insurance, American International Group, Home, Mortgage

12 min ago | via The Jewish Journal 

"It's just not happening, nothing is moving! It's disgusting!" An acquaintance recently lamented how terrible business was.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home