Archive for July, 2009
Boston Massachusetts Launches Foreclosure Prevention Program
The City of Boston will spend roughly $18 million to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and bring new buyers into the market in a program announced Wednesday by Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The program, called the Homeownership Stabilization Campaign, is a 12-month initiative to aid neighborhoods hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. The two-part program will [...]
Marshfield Massachusetts Foreclosure Seminar Wrapup
Though he came too late to see any of the speakers’ presentations, much of Monday’s foreclosure prevention seminar at Marshfield Town Hall was familiar to Marshfield resident Jim Nielsen. And not only because he had been to a similar seminar months earlier. Many of the issues and obstacles discussed by the nights’ presenters were familiar [...]
Second Boston Foreclosure Wave Coming? Massachusetts Foreclosures Could Increase.
Home sales were up again yesterday nationally, rising 3.6 percent over June. It was the third straight, month-over-month increase, and the latest sign that life of some sort may be finally returning to a sector that was all but dead few months ago. (Of course, prices just keep on falling, with the median sale price nationally [...]
Massachusetts Foreclosure Prevention Seminar in Marshfield
State Rep. Jim Cantwell, as well as foreclosure prevention counselors from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will host a free program to assist residents who are being threatened with foreclosure at 6 p.m., on Monday, July 27, at Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine St. The “Foreclosure Prevention Seminar,” the second program in a [...]
Foreclosure Prevention Questions, Two Year’s Too Late
Really, what took these guys so long to start asking some pointed questions? That’s my reaction to the news that some in Congress are starting to get ornery about the absurdly slow pace of the nation’s foreclosure rescue programs. Members of the Senate Banking Committee took aim last week at the Obama Administration, angered over [...]
Massachusetts Foreclosure Data from June – Increasing Massachusetts Forecloures
Massachusetts foreclosure petitions in June jumped to 2,835 – more than eight times higher than the 350 petitions in June 2008 and 21.7 percent higher than the 2,329 filings in May, said the Warren Group, which added that the number of petitions to foreclose in June was the highest it’s been in the previous 13 months. [...]
Worcester Massachusetts Foreclosure Auction Listings
Foreclosure Auction 15 Fitchburg Rd, Ashburnham, MA Brandy Goulkin Mxu Res+Com $256,600 07/22/2009 Foreclosure Auction 17 S High St, Ashburnham, MA Mark S Houle 1-Fam Res $196,600 07/24/2009 Foreclosure Auction 117 Sherbert Rd, Ashburnham, MA Peter R Blanchard 1-Fam Res $198,100 07/30/2009 Foreclosure Auction 1397 Pleasant St, Athol, MA Mark A Moseley 1-Fam Res $213,700 [...]
Marlborough Massachusetts Foreclosure Auction Listings
Status Address Owner Property Type Assessed Value Date Foreclosure Auction 110 Boston Post Rd E #106, Marlborough, MA Luzia Braga Condominium $151,200 07/17/2009 Foreclosure Auction 259 Boston Post Rd E #7, Marlborough, MA Evaldo Chaves Dasilva Condominium $121,100 08/03/2009 Foreclosure Auction 616 Boston Post Rd E #28, Marlborough, MA Steven C Mucci Condominium $82,000 07/20/2009 [...]
Massachusetts Foreclosures Rise in Salem, Decline in Beverly
Massachusetts Foreclosures PEABODY — As foreclosures continue to rise across the country, activity on the North Shore has fluctuated depending upon the community. As it did last year, Peabody had 30 recorded foreclosures through the first five months of this year. Foreclosures also held steady in Danvers, increasing by just one to 10 during the [...]
Facing Foreclosure in Massachusetts? You Have Options!
We are facing an unprecedented rise in foreclosures in the United States that threatens our financial security and the stability of our communities. Today, every homeowner is acutely aware of the rapid decline in property values. The real estate euphoria that took place during the “boom” years at the beginning of this decade has vanished. [...]