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Gov. Gavin Newsom Expedites Temporary Housing For Residents In Areas Struck By LA Wildfires
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Pasadena Native Lost Her House To LA Wildfires One Day After Paying Off Her Mortgage: 'It's Gone'
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How The Mircale Malibu Mansion And Pacific Palisades Home Survived The Devastating LA Fires
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What Happens To Your Mortgage And Property Tax When You Lose Your Home In A Natural Disaster?
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Friday warned Wells Fargo & Co that the U.S. bank's policy to delay mortgage modification decisions in states affected by Hurricane Sandy likely violates a national mortgage settlement. JP Morgan, Credit Suisse Settle SEC Cases for $417 Million
JPMorgan Chase & Co and Credit Suisse Group will pay a combined $416.9 million to settle U.S. civil charges that they fraudulently misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities offerings. Mortgage Delinquency Rate Falls in Third Quarter
Fewer homeowners were behind on mortgage payments in the third quarter as the housing market recovery made progress, data from an industry group showed on Thursday. Bernanke: Housing Not Yet Out of the Woods
The improving housing market is "far from being out of the woods," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday, arguing that overly tight lending standards are part of the problem. Spain Suspends Home Evictions for Most Needy
Spain approved measures on Thursday to help the most needy families facing eviction, a growing problem in the recession-bound nation highlighted last week by the suicide of a woman whose home bailiffs came to seize. BOFA Tallies $15.8 Billion in Mortgage Aid to Struggling Borrowers
About $15.8 billion in mortgage relief is making its way to 164,000 Bank of America Corp customers under a landmark settlement with state and federal officials, the bank said on Wednesday. COLUMN: After Sandy Do You Still Want a Beach House?
The scenes rolling in from the New Jersey shore are devastating, and not just to the people whose homes were destroyed. Also damaged are the "retire with a water view" dreams of others who had aspired to vacation property and may have been thinking about beach real estate - until they saw what a storm like Sandy can do. Bank of Ireland Raises 1 Billion EUR in 'Milestone' Issue
Bank of Ireland on Tuesday raised 1 billion euros ($1.27 billion) in its most significant bond issue in over three years, a move the country's finance minister described as a milestone for Ireland's battered banking sector. Home Depot View Up as Housing Heals, Sandy Lift Looms
Home Depot Inc raised its full-year outlook on Tuesday, even before considering any future sales lift from superstorm Sandy, as the retailer benefited from a recent uptick in the U.S. housing market. Deutsche Bank Loses Bid to End U.S. Mortgage Lawsuit
A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Deutsche Bank AG's bid to dismiss a federal regulator's lawsuit accusing it of misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into buying billions of dollars of risky mortgage debt.