Summerville Real Estate News

Monday Dec 28 | via Charleston Real Estate Blog 

News Charleston absorption rate by location As a follow up to yesterday's post of Charleston absorption rate by price range , let's look at the absorption rate by location within the Charleston real estate market.

Related Topix: Charleston, SC, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Summerville, SC, Goose Creek, SC

Friday Dec 11 | via Charleston Real Estate Blog 

News Charleston November home sales are sharply higher Home sales in November throughout the Charleston area were even better than expected with 799 sales recorded as of this morning compared to 507 in November 2008.

Related Topix: Housing, Charleston, SC, Charleston County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Foreclosures

Thursday Dec 10 | via Charleston Business Journal 

Foreclosure numbers fell in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties between October and November, but they still were up from a year ago in Charleston and Dorchester counties, according to data released this morning by the national real estate tracking firm RealtyTrac .

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Charleston, SC, Charleston County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Columbia, SC

Monday Dec 7 | via WCIV 

St. George, SC - It's a win for builders in Dorchester County, but could it slow down drivers? Monday night Dorchester County considered charging builders a fee for each house they build to help pay for roads and ease traffic, but council shot it down for another year with a 4-3 vote.

Related Topix: Dorchester County, SC, St. George, SC, Dorchester, SC, Mortgage, Home

Sunday Dec 6 | via GreenvilleOnline.com 

Dorchester County Council is expected Monday to discuss a new impact fee that would generate new dollars for road widening and other highway projects.

Related Topix: Dorchester County, SC, Dorchester, SC, Charleston, SC, Housing, Berkeley County, SC

Monday Dec 21 | via WJBF-TV Augusta 

South Carolina homeowners are in danger of losing their financial protection because state officials didn't apply for federal money that pays for free foreclosure counseling.

Related Topix: South Carolina, Foreclosures

Sunday Dec 20 | via WPDE 

South Carolina homeowners are in danger A of losing their financial protection because state officials didn't A apply for federal money that pays for free foreclosure counseling.

Related Topix: South Carolina, Foreclosures

Thursday Dec 10 | via GreenvilleOnline.com 

The foreclosure rate in the state and the county dropped last month, as the nation as a whole experienced its fourth straight month of declining activity.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, South Carolina, Greenville, SC, Greenville County, SC

Wednesday Dec 9 | via GreenvilleOnline.com 

Columbia-area home sales soared 69 percent in November compared with the same month last year, as buyers snapped up starter homes.

Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing, Real Estate, South Carolina

Tuesday Dec 8 | via Fortune 

Lounging in his giant conference room in an otherwise bland office suite near Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, Lewis Ranieri cultivates the image of a worldly philosopher.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, South Carolina

7 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated 2000 to 2009.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Financial Markets

1 min ago | via Star-telegram.com 

By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY It was a decade of living dangerously.With interest rates low and lending standards lower, credit became the currency of the decade.Exotic mortgage products helped housing prices more than double.

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1 min ago | via Star-telegram.com 

By JEANNINE AVERSA WASHINGTON - Banks borrowed slightly less from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week, a sign that credit stresses are easing.The Fed, in a report issued Thursday, said commercial banks averaged $18.74 billion in daily borrowing over the week that ended Wednesday.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

1 min ago | via Star-telegram.com 

By TIM PARADIS NEW YORK - A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated 2000 to 2009.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Financial Markets, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

1 min ago | via Star-telegram.com 

By JIM WASSERMAN SACRAMENTO, Calif. - 2009 was the year, finally, that promised relief, opening with foreclosure moratoriums and a highly touted Obama administration initiative to keep millions of desperate borrowers in their homes.But 2009 ended with the same old troubles.Expectations of widespread and faster loan modifications are proving a ...

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