“Treasury is currently reviewing a proposal to aid distressed homeowners by allowing a short sale of mortgage notes from mortgage-backed securities (MBS) trusts to new investors.” (DSNews.com) Jordan D. Dorchuck of American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. developed the proposal in hopes of making the lives of distressed homeowners much easier ...

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Just when you thought that owning a home in this current market wasn’t the best decision, the Homeowner Reward Co., of PMI Group, Inc. wants to remind you that you did the right thing! PMI realizes that it’s not the homeowner’s fault that their market was hit harder than most ...

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In most cases, short sales are the better alternative for homeowners, rather than going through the devastation that a foreclosure can have on your credit, your family and your future. There are advantages and disadvantages of both, but the advantages of short sales vastly outweigh the disadvantages, along with outweighing the advantages ...

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Prospect Mortgage has recently come out with the HomePath Renovation Mortgage. This mortgage is beneficial to those who are interested in purchasing a foreclosure, because as foreclosure sales increase, so does the demand for renovation loans. This mortgage offers up to $35,000 in non-structural repairs and a low interest-rate, making ...

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The foreclosure count in North Carolina has dropped 38% in the last year and 3.5% since April. Here is an exerpt from Charlotte Business Journal’s article: N.C. foreclosures down 38% year-over-year “Some 2,689 homes in North Carolina were in foreclosure proceedings in May, or one in every 1,584 households, according to ...

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Here is an unbeleivable short sale statistic in an exerpt from the DSNews.com article, HAFA Short Sales up Over 70% in April. “Servicers completed 1,666 short sales and deeds-in-lieu (DIL) of foreclosure under the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program in April. That’s up 73.7 percent from the 959 HAFA transactions completed ...

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