Foreclosure Help
Grant to Buy Homes on Foreclosure Listings Service for Rehab
Wells Fargo has awarded about $75,000 grant to the non-profit organization, Tarrant County Housing Partnership to buy homes on foreclosure listings service and rehabilitate them.
First-Time Buyers Receive Help to Find Foreclosure Listings
First-time buyers in Charleston, West Virginia will receive federal funding to help them find foreclosure listings and buy houses. The $143,401 funding is made possible by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing counseling grants.
Learn How to Buy Houses in Foreclosure
How to buy houses in foreclosure is one of the first challenges you face when you are thinking of investing in low-priced homes or buying an affordable house for your own use.
Debate Over Expanded Tax Credit for Buying Foreclosed Houses
The deadline for first-time buyers to use the $8,000 federal tax credit in buying foreclosed houses is fast approaching. Already, supporters are clamoring for the program to be extended, saying that it could help control home price declines.
City’s Homes Foreclosed for Sale Prevention Program Awarded
The city of Chula Vista in California has received the 2009 Helen Putnam Award for its program designed to prevent homes foreclosed for sale from becoming blights to neighborhoods. Since the city launched the program in 2007, over 400 cities across the country want to follow the same program pioneered by Chula Vista. And so far, over 300 cities have already implemented the program.
How to Find Foreclosure Homes Smartly
How to find foreclosure homes is one of the first challenges faced by an individual planning to buy a bargain-priced property for own use or for rental investment.
How to Find Foreclosures and Make Money from Them
How to find foreclosures that you can make money from is one of the most common investment ideas arising today as the prices of foreclosures continue to decline in many areas.
Foreclosure Listing for U.S. Government Foreclosures
You can find a foreclosure listing for U.S. government foreclosures on the web sites of the HUD, VA, and DA or on homesales.gov. You can find commercial and land foreclosures at fasrp.sc.egov.usda.gov, which is the web site of the Federal Asset Sales Real Property.
Freddie Uses YouTube for Government Repo Prevention Program
Freddie Mac has launched a video on YouTube to instruct distressed homeowners on how they can accelerate the processing of their loan modification or loan refinancing applications under the Obama administration’s government repo prevention program.
Program to Address Growing Bank Foreclosure Properties
Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York are set to join a national program designed to address the growing number of Bank Foreclosure Properties. The National Community Stabilization Trust program will link local governments and banks holding repossessed homes.
