According to CoreLogic, as reported by the Baltimore Sun today, “[n]early one in four Marylanders with a mortgage owed more on those loans than their homes were worth this spring, worse than all but six other states — and a large number of homeowners who can’t easily sell or refinance.”
Although the Baltimore region is running at a lower […]

 In a word, the residential mortgage picture is: BAD.
As reported by MarketWatch, more than 11.3 million homeowners — nearly one-fourth of all Americans with a mortgage — owe more on their loan (or are “under water”), than their home is now worth, according to a report released February 23, 2010, by FirstAmerican CoreLogic.

More than 10% of […]

The U.S. Treasury Department announced new guidelines this week designed to make short sales go more smoothly.
To qualify under these new guidelines:
1. The property must be the home owner’s principal residence.
2. The home owner must be delinquent on the mortgage or close to defaulting.
3. The loan must have been made before Jan. 1, 2009, and […]