Business Week on "Nightmare Mortgages"

Nightmare Mortgages

ING Suspends Foreclosures to the Holidays

Good for you, ING! But what would Mr. Potter have thought?

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Another Week, Another Financial Drama - BusinessWeek

Another Week, Another Financial Drama - BusinessWeek

Regulators prod banks to lend with $700B bailout - Nov. 12, 2008

Cough it up! Cough it up!

Caught in the mortgage trap? Help is on the way!

How do you spell relief? "F-A-N-N-I-E & F-R-E-D-D-I-E"?

Citigroup to help at-risk borrowers stay in homes

Good news: Major banks are beginning to offer help to property owners trying to ward off foreclosure.

Mortgage rates drop to average 6.2 percent

Mortgage rates drop to average 6.2 percent -- baltimoresun.com

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THE FEAR FACTOR

THE FEAR FACTOR -- baltimoresun.com

This certainly squares with our experience in this fear-fraught market. The question is, what do you do to restore a sense of confidence?

So When Will the Banks Start making loans?

Good grief, is this guy right?
If so, there's going to be hell to pay!

Talking Business - So When Will Banks Give Loans? - NYTimes.com

Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Good news at last from the National Association of Realtors. The NYT looks at the national picture and finds that it shows some improvement; locally, the market never has been as depressed as the national stats would suggest.

Read on...

Finally, Home Sales Rise - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

Help for Owners Is Slow in Coming

Lots of talk about helping the little guy (and gal) with the mortgage mess, but...

Home owners clamor for help that's slow in coming - Oct. 22, 2008

Pending US home sales offer some hope

The worm turns... perhaps.
"Pending" transactions -- deals that have been closed but not settled -- are showing an upswing.
Her's how The Financial Times reports it:
FT.com - Pending US home sales offer some hope