Rising home prices are helping to propel more home owners back into positive equity. About 850,000 residential properties returned to positive equity during the first quarter of 2013,...
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3 Million New Home Owners Could be on the Horizon
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals estimates that immigration reform could bring an estimated pool of 3 million new home owners into the market. The...
Home Owners Showing More Willingness to Sell?
The number of listings on the market increased 2.36 percent in March from the previous month — possibly an indication that sellers are becoming more willing to put their homes on the...
Study: ‘Green’ Home Owners Less Likely to Default
Home owners of energy-efficient homes are one-third less likely to default on their mortgage, according to a new study released by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Refi Programs Give Underwater Owners a Lift
States that were the hardest hit by foreclosures and have the highest number of underwater home owners are now leading the nation in refinancing as more borrowers look to decrease...
Home Owners Get Back to Remodeling Residences
As the housing market rebounds, more home owners are remodeling their homes again, according to industry reports. Remodeling has been far from its peak in recent years as home owners...
More Home Owners Gain Equity
Rebounding home prices are lowering the number of home owners who are considered “underwater” on their mortgage, according to a new report by CoreLogic. More than 700,000 home...
5 States With the Most Underwater Mortgages
About 22 percent of home owners nationwide are considered “underwater,” owing more on their mortgage than their home is currently worth, according to recent CoreLogic data....
Most Home Owners Unaware of Gov’t Aid Programs
More than 70 percent of home owners are unaware of government mortgage modification programs to help underwater borrowers, according to a new survey by FreeScore.com, an online credit...
BofA Considers Renting REOs Back to Former Owners
In facing large inventories of foreclosures, Bank of America is considering a program that would allow investors to buy a foreclosed home and then rent it back to the former home...
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