Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures

Demolition: Four years into this city’s housing crisis, it has often become cheaper for banks to give away a home and pay to demolish it than continue to hold on. And places across the country are watching. Click on the image to enlarge.

Brady Dennis The Washington Post 10/12/2011

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FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair Just Proposed Paying Delinquent Homeowners $21,000 to Walk Away

Mike “Mish” Shedlock Global Economic Trend Analysis Business Insider 3/26/2011

The Financial Times reports US Banks in ‘Cash for Keys’ Foreclosure Talks

The five biggest US mortgage servicers were told this week at a private meeting with regulators to consider paying delinquent borrowers up to $21,000 each as part of a broader settlement of the […]

Taxpayers Taking a Hit in Struggles of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and It Could Get Worse

Jim Angle FoxNews.com 11/15/2010

When you see a foreclosure sign, chances are good that you, as a taxpayer, are on the hook for the costs involved because Congress has its very own money pit — federal guarantees of mortgages gone bad. And the official estimates for the damage put it at more than $300 billion.

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HUD to Give Communities, Non-Profits First Shot at Foreclosures

Meena Thiruvengadam Dow Jones Newswires via FoxBusiness.com 9/1/2010

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Housing and Urban Development department plans to partner with mortgage lenders to offer state and local governments and nonprofits a chance to buy bank-owned properties before they’re offered to private investors.

“Local communities will now get an exclusive option to buy foreclosed […]

Bank of America Boosts Staff Handling Troubled Loans

David Mildenberg Bloomberg.com 6/23/2010

Bank of America Corp., the second- largest U.S. home lender, added 2,000 employees since April to work with borrowers having trouble paying their mortgages, a senior executive said.

The lender now has more than 18,000 workers in “default management,” a 60 percent increase since January 2009, Barbara Desoer, president of Bank […]

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