370,000 homeowners aided in second half of '07
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An alliance of mortgage counselors,  lenders and servicing companies on Friday said the industry  helped 370,000 homeowners avert foreclosure in the second half  of 2007.
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Owners protected 37 million acres from development last year, a 54 percent jump from 2000.
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Lenders issued $33.2 billion in new loans for commercial properties in the second quarter, up 17.4 percent from the same quarter in 2003, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Friday.
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Down 3.3 percent in the past year, median US home values are still 7.6 percent above 2004 levels.
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Mortgage lenders submitted a record 19,487 foreclosure filings in Massachusetts last year, leaving more homeowners in danger of losing their homes than at any time since the real estate recession of the 1990s.
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The rate of home loans entering the  foreclosure process rose to a record high in the second quarter  of 2007, driven largely by failing subprime mortgages, an  industry trade group said on Thursday.
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Thousands more people lost their home in 2007 in the UK than in the previous year, say mortgage lenders.
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Rising residential real estate values have been a blessing for many households.
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In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.
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More than 1 percent of all households faced foreclosure during 2007, almost twice the previous year's rate, a real estate marketing company said on Tuesday.
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Home sales and prices will fall at a faster pace in 2007 than originally expected, a leading U.S. real estate trade association said on Wednesday.
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More than 30 percent of U.S.  homeowners who bought in the last two years owe more on their  mortgage than their house is currently worth, a housing market  research company said on Tuesday.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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Home values across the United States  soared 32 percent during the first half of this decade,  according to new data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Census  Bureau.
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WASHINGTON -- The prolonged slump in housing pushed construction of new homes in 2007 down by the largest amount in 27 years with the expectation that the downturn has further to go.
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The number of Americans who may lose their homes to foreclosure reached a record in the second quarter as late payments by subprime borrowers surged to one of every seven loans.
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Although existing homes are selling at their slowest pace in four years, most Americans are confident their homes are worth more now than they were a year ago, according to a survey released on Thursday.