Month: June 2011

Cash-For-Short Sale

From HW: CitiMortgage, the mortgage servicing arm of Citigroup is paying borrowers an average $12,000 after completing a short sale this year alone. Justin Rand, the senior vice president of loss mitigation at the bank, said servicers are putting more of an emphasis...

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Lautner’s Chemosphere House

With its octagonal design that’s part Jetsons, part Bond, John Lautner’s Chemosphere House is considered a masterpiece of California Modernism. Perched on concrete poles, the home is reached via an inclined cable railway. Wiki link. Lautner ingeniously solved the...

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More Short Sales Than REOs

From HW: Bank of America completed more short sales than it unloaded previously foreclosed homes every month for the last year and a half. In May, BofA completed roughly 9,000 short sales compared to 7,000 REO, said David Sunlin, the bank's real estate management...

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More Multi-Family Predicted

Hat tip to DB for sending this along, from the latimes.com: UCLA forecasters have seen the future of California's housing market, and it looks like this: more apartments near the coast, fewer McMansions in the desert. That prediction is based on several factors,...

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