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Mortgage settlement leaves out responsible homeowners
I am concerned as a taxpayer and homeowner about the multi-state settlement in regard to foreclosures and mortgages. I have sympathy toward their plight, but homeowners who had little equity in their homes and thus little to lose have been walking away...Tags: Homes, Mortgages, Financial and Business Services, Rentals, Real Estate
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U.S. mortgage deal nears as holdout states join
California and New York, two big holdout states in a $25 billion mortgage settlement, are expected to join the deal, smoothing the way for an announcement on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Florida, with its large distressed...Tags: Joe Biden, Elections, Trials, Wells Fargo & Co., Financial and Business Services
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Maryland joins nationwide mortgage settlement
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has agreed to join other states in a $25 billion settlement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers — a landmark agreement that would provide nearly $1 billion in aid to Maryland homeowners...Tags: Finance, Martin O'Malley, Wells Fargo & Co., Douglas F. Gansler, Financial and Business Services
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January home sales fall in Baltimore area
January home sales slipped by 5 percent in the Baltimore area, while the number of homes on the market reached its lowest point in nearly six years, numbers released Friday show. There were 1,334 homes sold in the area last month, down from January...Tags: Homes, Real Estate Sales, Marketing, Inventories, Real Estate Buyers
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Mortgage settlement: A good deal for Maryland
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is right to sign on to the multi-state settlement with the nation's five largest banks over some aspects of the faulty procedures they used to foreclose on homes during the mortgage crisis. The state stands...Tags: Finance, Douglas F. Gansler, Wells Fargo & Co., Financial and Business Services, Freddie Mac
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The feds investigate the mortgage mess: What took so long?
In this week's State of the Union address, President Obama announced to cheers the formation of a new Justice Department unit tasked with going after the big banks and mortgage companies whose reckless lending led to the collapse of the housing market and...Tags: Documentary (genre), Loans, Corporate Crime, Wells Fargo & Co., Barack Obama
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State's student homeless population doubles
For a few hours after school, Ryan Johnson is just like most 16-year-olds. He lounges on the couch with his favorite Xbox game or checks his Facebook page.
But then reality sets in. He decamps from his cousins' house for the Howard County cold-weather...Tags: Severna Park, Social Services, Facebook, Teaching and Learning, Xbox 360
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Changes suggested to stave off foreclosure and its ill effects
A state task force is recommending a raft of changes to give Maryland homeowners a better shot at avoiding foreclosure and — when foreclosures do happen — to give neighborhoods a greater chance at recovering.
The suggestions, presented...Tags: Labor Legislation, Martin O'Malley, Labor Legislation, Financial and Business Services, Tax Credits
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Another down year for Baltimore-area housing market
The Baltimore region's housing market posted the fourth straight year of average price declines in 2011 as the number of home sales hit a low not seen in at least a decade and a half.
The average home sold last year in the metro area changed hands for...Tags: Homes, Real Estate Sales, Values, Moody's Corporation, Realty
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Dream home: Foreclosure find yields cozy treasure for father, daughter
Most people, unless headed to a specific address, will simply drive past the two-story row houses that line the curb along Fleet Street in East Baltimore. Few are wider than 15 feet; their only mark of individuality is usually found in the variety of...Tags: Patterson Park, Building Material, Land Price, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Home Improvement
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Coverage of foreclosure protest lacked facts
This letter is in regard to your recent coverage of the foreclosure protest in Union Square ("Occupy Baltimore members gather to fight foreclosure," Jan. 11). As a reader and subscriber to the online and print editions of The Sun, I am disappointed...Tags: Homes, Protest, Property Tax, Deutsche Bank AG, Real Estate
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Home values fell 17% in three years, state assessors say
Home values in Maryland communities reassessed by the state this year have fallen an average of 17 percent since 2008, a sizable drop but smaller than in the last two rounds of property evaluations.
Nine out of 10 residential properties that were...Tags: Homes, Patterson Park, Harford County, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Values
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