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- Jobless rates drop in two-thirds of metro areas last month as slow recovery spurs some hiring
- Sales of previously occupied homes dip 2.2 percent despite help from federal tax credits
- Firm: Median home price in California jumps 21 percent in May from previous year
- Southern California median home price up 23 percent in May from year ago
- Summary Box: May foreclosure notices level off as banks give borrowers more time
- May foreclosure notices level off but remain high; banks give delinquent borrowers more time
- Home prices fall 0.5 percent from February to March, raising fears of a new bottom
- Summary Box: Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures break records
- Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures break records, weigh on broader economic recovery
- Mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures break records as foreclosure crisis fails to abate
- Southern California median home price up 15 percent in April from year-ago low point
- Obama mortgage plan provides assistance to 25 percent of participants; nearly as many drop out
- Hawaii foreclosures way up again in April
- Mortgage foreclosures up 24 percent in West Virginia in 2009
- Foreclosure filings sink 2 percent from April 2009, first yearly decline in 5 years
- Median home prices rise in nearly 60 percent of US metropolitan areas in first quarter
- Economic stress declines in three-quarters of nations’ counties in March, AP stress map shows
- Key home price index shows first gain in 3 years, though metro results were mixed
- Tracking firm: California sees another drop in mortgage default notices in first quarter
- Housing starts up on gains in multi-family sector, but high foreclosures a drag on industry
- Illinois adds 3,000 jobs but unemployment higher at 11.5 percent in March
- US homes facing foreclosure jumped 16 percent in 1st-quarter as banks take back more homes
- Summary Box: US homes facing foreclosure jumped 16 percent in 1st-quarter
- Watchdog panel says Obama plan to ease foreclosure crisis does too little, comes too late
- Economic pain eases in nation’s most stressed states and counties, AP stress map shows
- Deadline looms for cities, states to use federal foreclosure cash; rules make it hard to spend
- After past failures, government launches new effort to solve mortgage crisis, help homeowners
- Gov’t announces plan to shrink home loans for some troubled borrowers, aid jobless
- Budding housing recovery is at risk; Bank of America unveils $3B plan to help homeowners
- Californians losing their homes face big tax bills unless Schwarzenegger, lawmakers compromise
- Homebuilder sentiment index drops in March as weather, foreclosures put damper on outlook
- Hundreds of homeowners seek help avoiding foreclosures at fed-sponsored event in Arizona city
- Summary Box: Foreclosures rise by the smallest amount in 4 years
- Foreclosures rise 6 percent in February, smallest yearly increase in 4 years
- CEO of homebuilder Hovnanian says market could withstand a ‘little’ bump in foreclosures
- Bernanke stresses need to keep rates low as housing woes signal weak economic recovery
- How mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures fared in the fourth quarter of 2009
- Obama says he made unpopular decisions to pull country out of recession
- New mortgage delinquencies fell at end of 2009 as foreclosure crisis begins to ebb
- Obama to announce housing help Friday in Las Vegas, where foreclosures lead the nation
- Citigroup plan lets homeowners avoid foreclosure, stay for 6 months if they turn over deed
- Foreclosure rate down from December to January, though still above last year’s levels
- US economic strains hit a peak in December as Western states weakened, AP stress map shows
- Influx of new residents as recession started worsened its effects, AP review of IRS data shows
- Voters seeking action on Obama’s words wonder if lawmakers on both sides will play ball
- Study: 3,985 properties, or 1 in every 84 Oahu households, was in foreclosure in 2009
- California default notices fall 24 percent in 4th quarter as pain eases in entry-level markets
- Home sales rose in ‘09 for first time in 4 years, boosted by government spending, low prices
- Maryland foreclosure rates continues to climb; state housing chief blames employer cutbacks
- More Massachusetts homeowners faced foreclosure last year, but fewer actually lost their homes
- Tracking firm: Southern California median home price posts first year-on-year jump since 2007
- Ohio to receive $175 million in stimulus aid to turn foreclosures into affordable housing
- Hawaii foreclosures reach record high for December; climb 183 percent to 9,002 for all of 2009
- A record 2.8 million home receive foreclosure notice in 2009; December rate spikes
- Life in Foreclosureville, USA: 2 years after bust, so much has changed in once-booming town
- Foreclosures spur $500M drop in property assessments for once-booming West Virginia county
- Foreclosures crimp home value estimates & sabotage sales, appraisers are left on the defensive
- Florida Supreme Court approves task force recommendations to pare down foreclosure cases
- ALL BUSINESS: Borrowers caught understating income still eligible to modify mortgages
- Marshall & Ilsley extends foreclosure moratorium by another 3 months
- County that includes Cleveland to stop tax foreclosures for 6 months, affecting hundreds
- Foreclosure filings in largest Colorado counties up this year, but foreclosure sales down
- Report says homeowners whose loan payments are cut by 20 percent or more still falling behind
- Bay area home sales, prices rise for second straight month, signaling trend toward stability
- Mortgage companies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac enact 2 week foreclosure halt for holidays
- Backlog of foreclosures estimated at 1.7 million, likely to hold back home prices, report says
- Citigoup to suspend foreclosures for about 4,000 homeowners during holiday season
- ASU report: Another wave of foreclosures in the Phoenix metro area likely early next year
- Hawaii foreclosures up 122 percent in November over same month last year
- Foreclosure filings back off in Nov. for 4th straight month as borrowers evaluated for help
- Audit: taxpayers lose big on AIG, auto bailouts as administration extends $700 billion fund
- Administration extends $700 billion bailout until Oct.; Dems, GOP split on best use of funds
- Report: Only 10,000 borrowers completed loan modifications under Obama program through Oct.
- Geithner tells Congress administration extending financial bailout program until Oct. 3, 2010
- Watchdog says bailouts helped unfreeze the financial crisis but problems remain
- Frustration building with Obama foreclosure prevention plan as industry acknowledges troubles
- RI Senate to examine struggling economy, budget deficit and consolidating local governments
- US facing weak recovery, further threats from joblessness, foreclosures, AP stress map shows
- Treasury Dept. says mortgage industry could be sanctioned for poor results in mortgage plan
- Administration plans to press mortgage providers to accelerate help to struggling borrowers
- Arizona lawmakers hit reset button on changing law to allow post-foreclosure lawsuits
- Fannie Mae won’t consider investors’ offers on foreclosures for first 15 days on market
- Home prices up slightly in September; analysts expect declines as foreclosures rise
- Ariz. lawmakers vote to scrap changes to post-foreclosure suits, start over on issue
- Home sales surge in October as buyers rush to take advantage of tax credit
- October sales gains lift hopes for housing market, if not for overall economy
- October home sales up 10.1 percent, beating expectations as tax credit spurs sales
- Home sales likely rose in October to highest level since July 2007 as tax credit spurs sales
- Foreclosure crisis weighs on economy as more people with good credit risk losing homes
- New jobless claims unchanged but foreclosures up, adds to concerns about broad recovery
- Weak home construction weighing down economic rebound; consumer inflation remains tame
- AP News in Brief
- Tracking firm: Southern California median home price increases 2 percent from Sept. to Oct.
- Report: Blacks, Latinos at disproportionate risk in ongoing foreclosure crisis
- Frank floats plan to give TARP-related loans to unemployed homeowners who can’t pay mortgage
