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Free Lunch – This Time It’s Different or History Repeats Itself?

2008 financial crisis

Summary: With easy money coming back into the market, borrowers who should not be borrowing getting loans and the economy at a tipping point is the history of the financial crisis about to repeat itself? Will the return to ‘easier’ lending practices in markets spanning mortgages, student loans and used cars pose a problem? Problem for the […]

CoreLogic January 2016 National Foreclosure Report!

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Courtesy of CoreLogic, this article contains most everything you wanted to know about U.S. residential property foreclosures! The report was created by, and is posted with, the permission of CoreLogic, a data and analytics company. The January 2016 National Foreclosure Report shows the foreclosure inventory declined by 21.7 percent and completed foreclosures declined by 16.2 percent compared with January […]

Zombie (Foreclosure) Update

title insurance, New York,New York City,Long Island,Michael Haltman

Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service Last week we wrote an article that included an infographic defining what a Zombie Foreclosure is and the harm they do to the neighborhoods that they are in! These abandoned properties tends to be neglected, possibly vandalized and most definitely eyesores detrimental to the value of the other houses around them. […]

What is a Zombie Foreclosure? (Infographic)

title insurance, New York,New York City,Long Island,Michael Haltman

Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service A Zombie Foreclosure is simply a house currently in the foreclosure process that sits vacant having been abandoned by the owner and not yet taken back by the lender! Most of us have driven by homes we suspect are long-abandoned, are being foreclosed, that typically will be neglected, have very possibly […]

The Foreclosure Process: What a difference a state makes!

US foreclosure statistics

Does it matter whether a property foreclosure is being pursued within a judicial state or a non-judicial state? You bet it does! For those who may be unfamiliar with the difference between judicial and non-judicial foreclosures, the short answer has much to do with time. Lots and lots of time.  And, as we say in […]