REO

Results-Based Strategies for Managing the Bulk of Business That '09 Left Behind -- First American's David Tiberio lays out effective solutions for addressing elevated levels of REO inventories in 2010 and 2011.

The House Financial Services Committee passed a bill Wednesday that lawmakers say will prevent banks and other financial firms from growing so large that their collapse could disrupt the overall economy.

Despite the industry's unprecedented efforts to keep people in their homes, there are more borrowers behind on their mortgage payments than there have been in 37 years.

Goldman Sachs' latest clever idea to make money poses a dilemma for the government as the Wall Street firm negotiates to acquire tax credits from Fannie Mae.

Real estate data site PropertyShark.com has been named to the TIME.com Top 50 Websites of 2009.

Government regulators are poised to shutter Guaranty Financial Group Inc. on the heels of last week's takeover of Colonial Bank, feeding concerns about a new widespread collapse in the banking system and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's ability to handle it.

Irvine, California's Real Estate Disposition Corp. (REDC) announced last week that it generated $24.9 million in sales in its just-completed national online foreclosure auction.

A recent study published by the New York Federal Reserve says that lax lending standards were not the air that inflated the market’s latest housing bubble and propelled the nation into an economic tailspin.

Scott Gibson of RE/MAX Renaissance Realty – Gibson Laughton Group in Arizona, has been ranked No. 4 on the list of Top 100 Teams in the United States published by RE/MAX Mainstreet, according to standings for January through May of 2009 based on residential commissions paid.

The Treasury Department said last week that loan originations made by the nation’s largest banks grew modestly during the month of May, and according to a report issued this week by the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s (TARP) inspector general, a large majority of institutions who have received government bailout money say they’ve used the funds to write new loans.