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State’s Reduction of Nursing Home Inspection Backlogs Can be Model for Others  Skilled Nursing News

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Process for selling houses changes in Arizona following lawsuit  Arizona's Family

Home inspection warning: The one important thing many buyers miss  WCPO 9 Cincinnati

Buyer Agents Support MA Legislature's Home Inspection Protections  EIN News

RPV home inspections  LAist

RPV home inspections  LAist

RPV home inspections  LAist

New rule may affect buying a home in Arizona starting in August  AZPM

New rule may affect buying a home in Arizona starting in August  Arizona Public Media

 
Renters looking for houses in metro Phoenix areexperiencing much of the same frenzy as buyers.
As reported in http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/09/04/20120904phoenix-area-rental-homes-red-hot-commodity.htm, new data from the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service and real-estate analyst Mike Orr show  the supply of houses for rent in the region is nearly as tight as the supply of homes for sale, and the number of leases signed in  the past few months is at record levels.
High demand for rentals is another indicator of metro Phoenix’s housing-market recovery.
Rob and Sandra O’Dell discovered how competitive metro Phoenix’s rental market has become when they began looking for ...

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Nearly a dozen people have been indicted in an alleged California-based mortgage modification scam that targeted struggling homeowners, according to the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. 
More than 4,000 homeowners lost at least $7 million in fees paid to the company; many lost their homes to foreclosure through the scheme.
Here’s information from the federal announcement:
+  Federal agents this morning arrested 10 defendants who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.,-based business that allegedly offered bogus loan modification programs to financially distressed homeowners. As a result of the scheme allegedly run out of 21st ...

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Metro Phoenix’s housing market took a breather in July. Home prices fell less than 1 percent instead of the 5 to 7 percent monthly jumps seen earlier this year.
Here are the highlights from the report from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University:
 The median single-family home price dropped slightly between June and July this year – down less than 1 percent. It went from $150,000 to $149,000.
The median single-family home price was still up almost 31 percent from last ...

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 More than 7,700 Arizona borrowers have recently received aid from one of the nation's five biggest lenders, according to a preliminary federal report on the $25 million lender settlement with the nation's attorneys general. The lenders settled over accusations of abusive foreclosure practices.
This week's report says that so far, the five lenders have spent more than $500 million in Arizona to help homeowners.
But it's been hard to find many of those homeowners. So far, after working with several of Arizona's top housing non-profits and soliciting responses from readers, I have found two people who have received aid from the settlement. ...

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Real Estate Commission Judy Lowe emailed this out last night: From Fannie Mae:
There appears to be a misunderstanding regarding Fannie Mae's short sale process, involving a company called Kazork.  Kazork is a company that, among other things, conducts auctions of residential  properties that have not been able to be sold through traditional marketing practices.  Fannie Mae at one time had a limited engagement with Kazork, but has said that Kazork is not an exclusive partner on short sales.  Fannie Mae is reaching out to Kazork to stop them from using Fannie Mae's name in any marketing activities.   Any changes that Fannie Mae makes to its short ...

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