help with foreclosures
Newton Massachusetts Family Fights Foreclosure (video)
A Newton, Massachusetts mother is hoping the kindness of friends and strangers can help her keep her family home.
When Elinor Beatrice met her husband Jeff 20 years ago, they each had children from previous marriages, but they would spend the coming years expanding their family even more.
They raised 11 kids in the same house Jeff [...]
Buying a Massachusetts Foreclosure Property
Thinking of buying a home? Act before year’s end and you just might be able to make the most of the glut of foreclosed properties currently up for sale. That’s because, while banks traditionally have been unwilling to come down on the list prices of foreclosed properties, a year-end push to clear their books of [...]
Great Map of Boston and Massachusetts Foreclosure Trends
There’s a lot of confusion out there about the foreclosure crisis.
I remember editors at one paper I worked for seeking in vain a suburban counterpart of battered, boarded up and foreclosed Hendry Street in Dorchester.
Anyway, I am sure there was a lot of salivating over potential headlines, Wellesley’s Foreclosure Alley and things of that sort.
Of [...]
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 provide equity [...]
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 of [...]
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 series, [...]
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 the painfully [...]
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. Prices [...]
Don’t Be a Foreclosure Scam Victim
It is bad enough to be the target of a foreclosure from a legitimate lender. How much worse to be the target of a scam seeking to steal what little you have while posing as your rescuer.
So be warned: Foreclosure rescue scams are on the rise, taking thousands of dollars from desperate mortgage holders, [...]