Foreclosure lawyer probes left up to Florida Bar Palm Beach Post By Kimberly Miller The Florida Bar's investigations into foreclosure fraud by its members jumped 63 percent in the past year, but no disciplinary actions against attorneys have been levied since complaints began to mount in the fall of 2010.
Housing market continues to struggle News Chief "Right now I think prices are being driven more by foreclosures than market rate transactions," said Tim Becker, director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Florida. Becker says there's no easy fix for reducing the ...
Southwest Florida banks add property The News-Press Southwest Florida-based banks added almost $10 million worth of real estate to their books to end 2011 as they pushed bad loans through the foreclosure process and prepared to sell the property, statistics released by the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
Renting out foreclosures Atlanta Journal Constitution The foreclosure process in Florida, a judicial state, may take 18 to 24 months. In Georgia, it can take just 30 to 45 days, Lorber said. “There are very few road bumps in between a default and a foreclosure.” At the end of last year, Atlanta had 4557 ...
In South Florida, Occupy movement targets housing crisis Sun-Sentinel By Mike Clary, Sun Sentinel After months of noisy protests and public-space encampments, South Florida's Occupy movement has quietly shifted its focus to "occupying" houses to support homeowners caught in the foreclosure crisis.
Volusia, Flagler coasts fare better in foreclosures Daytona Beach News-Journal Flagler County led the state in foreclosure filing ratio in December, and Deltona has been one of the hardest hit cities in Florida since the housing crisis began. But when viewed holistically, a pattern emerges in the 2011 data from national real ...