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Ariz., Mich., Fla., set to join foreclosure deal, leaving a few holdouts ...
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say. They will join more than 40 other states in approving a ...

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Mortgage Accord, UBS, Gupta, Insider Trading: Compliance
BusinessWeek
8 (Bloomberg) -- California, New York, Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are among states that haven't signed a settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses, according to state officials and two people familiar with the talks.
Mortgage Accord, UBS, Gupta, Insider 'Criminal Club', Finra: ComplianceBloomberg

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Bloomberg

Reduce the principal to fix the housing mortgage crisis
Pocono Record
By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON — For all the campaign rhetoric we heard in Florida, there was not a single serious proposal advanced by the GOP candidates to fix the housing mortgage crisis. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich hammered away at ...
Banks See Paying Bonus to Troubled Homeowners Beats Foreclosure: MortgagesBloomberg
Delaying the Inevitable: The Effect of Foreclosure Moratoriums, Mediations and ...JD Supra (press release)
Additional foreclosure help on the way for Floridians?Central Florida News 13
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
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Christian Science Monitor

Florida Mortgage Rates at 4.07%
TheStreet.com
01/23/12 - 12:55 PM EST Florida (Rate Wire) -- The benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate in FL has moved down over the last year. In our year-ago review on Jan. 28 the rates averaged 4.91%; this week the average stands at 4.07%, a drop of 84 basis ...
30-year mortgage rates jump, but still below 4 percentSun-Sentinel (blog)

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Bakersfield Now

Foreclosure settlement gains three more takers
Las Vegas Review - Journal
By DEREK KRAVITZ AP WASHINGTON -- Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, sources said Tuesday. They will join more than 40 other states in a deal ...
Mortgage deal faces setbacks, againReuters
Several states hold out, one leaves $25B mortgage settlement talksAGBeat
More US states join foreclosure abuse dealDeseret News
Arizona Republic -New York Post -Huffington Post
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State health care: Florida lets kids go without health care
Florida Times-Union
- Florida's economy continues to be weighed down like an anvil by houses that are in foreclosure or “under water,” valued at less than the mortgage. - Though Florida accounted for less than 8 percent of mortgages nationally, it made up almost 25 ...

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AsiaOne

Mortgage hurricane warning from Florida businessman went unheeded
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Years before the housing bust — before all those home loans turned sour and millions of Americans faced foreclosure — a wealthy businessman in Florida set out to blow the whistle on the mortgage game. His name is Nye Lavalle, ...
Fannie Mae and a Zillion Small Mortgage AbusesForbes
An unlikely sleuth tried to tell Fannie Mae to shape upBend Bulletin
Refloating the housing marketLos Angeles Times
Sun-Sentinel -Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Bloomberg

GOP Candidates Offer Few Solutions for Florida's Mortgage Collapse
The Ledger
All of the contenders in Florida's Jan. 31 primary argue that repealing new federal bank regulations and reforming or dismantling mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would help free up lending and improve housing prices.
In center of nation's mortgage meltdown, Romney defends banks while talking ...Washington Post
Much heat, little light on housing in Florida debateReuters
Mitt Romney's State of the Union Challenge on the Mortgage CrisisBusiness Insider
Bloomberg
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msnbc.com

Mortgage relief: Partial solution better than none
msnbc.com
... 2011 in Miami, Florida. By John Schoen As the clock ticks down on year-long negotiations on a sweeping mortgage relief settlement, the architects of the joint state-federal plan believe it would be better for homeowners to get a partial deal than ...

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Bank of America Plaza Sold for $235 Million in Atlanta Foreclosure Auction
Bloomberg
Holders of commercial mortgage bonds took ownership through a “credit bid” placed by LNR Partners, David Levin said in an e-mailed statement. Levin is vice chairman of Miami Beach, Florida-based LNR Property LLC, the parent company of LNR Partners, ...

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