Sales of new homes are up this fall, but a third of US homeowners are underwater with their mortgages, and swing states have some of the highest foreclosure rates. Jeffrey Brown talks to The Opportunity Agenda’s James Carr and Cato Institute’s Mark Calabria for why housing hasn’t been discussed in the presidential campaigns.

The paperwork mess muddying home foreclosures erupted last month. But the legal strategy behind it traces to a lawyer’s gambit in 2006 that has helped keep one couple in their home six years beyond their last mortgage payment. Lillian and Robert Jackson stopped paying on their home in Jacksonville, Fla., in 2004 when business dropped [...]

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www.GrantCardone.com – Grant Rant #48 Obama Foreclosure Rental Plan – The Barack Obama Administration is rolling out a plan to attack the government owned foreclosure and Real Estate Owned properties problem that’s been going on for 4 years and has significantly affected the US economy, including the housing markets in California, Arizona, Florida, and Nevada [...]

Jordan Estevao of National People’s Action discusses the shortfalls of the foreclosure settlement announced on February 9, 2012, and what can be done to address the massive number of underwater mortgages and re-stabilize the housing market. For more information: npa-us.org

This video takes a look at the 2007 collapse of the banking and real estate industries and the foreclosure crisis which it caused. We begin by defining what housing or real estate bubbles actually are, the factors behind their formation and what causes them to burst. We then proceed to reveal the main reasons behind [...]

Property preservation at www.foreclosurecash.net – The property preservation business involves as you might expect, the preservation of properties and is one in which is heavily involved when it comes to cleaning foreclosed homes and providing maintenance services until the properties are sold. So, in the context of this article, property preservation and foreclosure clean up [...]

usawatchdog.com – It looks like the biggest banks in the country have cut a deal with state and federal regulators to end some of the mortgage and foreclosure fraud liabilities. It is reported there is possibly $13.5 trillion in mortgage and foreclosure fraud, and it is all being settled for $25 billion. This settlement is [...]

Siti Crook of www.EnergyEfficientHomesTeam.com has an insightful perspective on rising energy costs and their affect on the real estate industry and home foreclosures.

This is a 5-part video for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs about alternatives to foreclosures for VA Home Loan holders. For more information, contact your local VA office or call 877-827-3702. www.benefits.va.gov