Common sense suggests that as home prices decline, the property taxes based on their valuations ought to as well. But property taxes nationally are clicking higher. Why is this occurring? Several factors are at work — and they…
The humbled housing sector took a modest step forward last month as starts rose a better-than-predicted 3.9% to a 530,000-unit annual rate. Still, at the current pace, the nation is 18 to 24 months from seeing normal levels of …
The depressing economic statistics about housing in America are well known, but the numbers don’t tell nearly the whole story. In this series, DailyFinance takes a look at troubled neighborhoods in cities across the country, wh…
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin Glenn denied Wells Fargo’s request for permission to foreclose on Tandala Mims’s house in the Bronx for a second time on Thursday because he still wasn’t satisfied that Wells — as opposed to…
Modesto, California, located 90 miles east of San Francisco, had the nation’s third-highest home foreclosure rate during the third quarter of 2010, just behind Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cape Coral/Fort Meyers, Florida. DailyFinanc…