8 hrs ago | via Cycle News
The current economic downturn and housing market recession is affecting a large number of motorcycle families. Comment?
Driven from dream home by safety issues, Corona fami...
Saturday | via Press-Enterprise
A Corona homeowner's battle to fix building defects, combined with the sagging Inland real estate market, is creating a dilemma neither the builder nor the owner ever expected. Comment?
S.D. Countya s population tops 3.2 million
Friday Dec 18 | via SignOnSanDiego.com
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 12:30 a.m. San Diego County's population inched above the 3.2 million mark for the first time this year, even as economic woes depressed migration from other counties and Mexico, the state Department of Finance reported yesterday. Comment?
California growth slows to near-crawl - Fri, 18 Dec ...
Friday Dec 18 | via Spokesman Review
California's population grew less than 1 percent in the last year, the slowest growth rate in more than a decade and a vivid indicator of the continued toll that the deep recession has taken on the state. Comment?
California's population grows by less than 1%
Thursday Dec 17 | via Los Angeles Times
California's population grew less than 1% in the last year, the slowest growth rate in more than a decade and a vivid indicator of the continued toll that the deep recession has taken on the state. Comment?
40% of owners lagging on payments despite help
1 hr ago | via SF Gate
When borrowers get into financial trouble, lenders have several ways to help. They can offer grace periods, longer repayment schedules, lower interest rates or reduced balances. Comment?
Top News: Two Years of House Price Depreciation Halted
15 hrs ago | via Qualified Remodeler
The uptick was led by a 2.1 percent increase in California , according to a quarterly housing valuation analysis by IHS Global Insight. Comment?
Whata s selling? Check out our Bakersfield home map
16 hrs ago | via Bakersfield.com
Felix Adamo/ The Californian This home located at 2201 Thelma Drive sold for $177,500 on Oct. Comment?
FDIC shutters two big California banks, five others
21 hrs ago | via InvestmentNews
Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults. Comment?
First Federal acquisition bulks up OneWest Bank
Saturday | via The Daily Breeze
OneWest Bank FSB just got a lot bigger. The Pasadena-based bank that scooped up failed mortgage lender IndyMac Bank earlier this year announced Friday it has completed its acquisition of the banking operations of First Federal Bank of California from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Comment?
U.S. foreclosures top 1 million, report finds
1 min ago | via Medford Mail Tribune
Troubled home loans continued to mount in the nation's banks in the third quarter as even once-solid borrowers increasingly fell behind on their mortgage payments. Comment?
Home Sales Likely Rose Again In November 41min
1 min ago | via WBAL-TV Baltimore
Home resales are expected to have risen to their highest level in nearly three years in November, as an extraordinary level of federal support has pulled the housing market back from the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Comment?
May 1, 2009 | via WDBO-AM Orlando
Jim Turner - Dec. 22 2009, 5:00am-5:20am + " I'm only a senate this evening this. Comment?
7 min ago | via Forbes
Even if the Federal Reserve gets around to strengthening the dollar--which would do wonders to get the economy really moving again--we still face a mammoth and growing problem: the government's increasing domination and distortion of the capital markets. Comment?
Borrowers with modified loans falling into trouble
12 min ago | via Tulsa World
One of the biggest challenges to ending the foreclosure crisis is this: A surprising number of homeowners who get their monthly payments reduced fall behind again within a year. Comment?