The number of mortgages, especially prime fixed loans, increased to record levels during the fourth quarter of 2010 according to a report released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association. But loans in foreclosure increased to 4.63 percent during the quarter, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — An influential Senate committee heard testimony from homeowners’ and lenders’ attorneys Wednesday on three bills designed to make it easier for borrowers facing foreclosure to discover who owns their loans before it is too late. One of the ...

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Anne Arundel County and several thousand homeowners remain $17 million apart on the amount of money they believe the county owes in refunds and interest for impact fees collected between 1988 and 1996 but not spent or under contract. The ...

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BETHESDA — A group of homeowners is trying to overturn a zoning board decision that would allow the expansion of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. The Huntington Terrace Citizens Association has filed a notice appealing an October zoning decision that would ...

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NEW YORK — The number of homeowners who owe more than their houses are worth fell for the third straight quarter this summer. About 10.8 million households, or 22.5 percent of all mortgaged homes, were underwater in the July-September quarter, ...

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NEW YORK — Homeowners who delayed locking in super-low mortgage rates — think close to 4 percent for a 30-year fixed — may have waited too long. Rates are creeping back up, in part because of the tax-cut deal in ...

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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Across the nation, troubled homeowners have cheered the news that some banks are slowing the foreclosure process to review questionable documents. Then there are places like Lee County, Fla., where not everyone is applauding. Foreclosures became ...

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WASHINGTON — More than half of homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship foreclosure-prevention effort have fallen out of the program, and fewer borrowers are enrolling. The Treasury Department says about 680,000 homeowners who applied to get their mortgage ...

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WASHINGTON — Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly ...

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