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Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer on 2010-09-03T19:07:31Z

Greater Cleveland housing picture is especially bleak, Cleveland Fed's Pianalto says

As bad as the housing picture is nationwide, it's bleaker in Greater Cleveland, Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Sandra Pianalto said in a speech in Washington, D.C. Even more depressing: Some of the solutions actually adopted have just scratched the surface.

Associated Press business staff on 2010-08-26T14:55:35Z

One in 10 with a mortgage face foreclosure

About 9.9 percent of homeowners had missed at least one mortgage payment as of June 30, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday.

Associated Press business staff on 2010-08-20T19:14:54Z

Nearly 50 percent leave Obama mortgage-aid program

A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage payments lowered through the effort have been cut loose through July. That's about 48 percent of the 1.3 million homeowners who had enrolled since March 2009. That is up from more than 40 percent through June.

Michelle Jarboe, The Plain Dealer on 2010-08-13T21:09:49Z

Bingham building in Cleveland's Warehouse District could be auctioned within months

The Bingham building, a high-profile apartment property in the Warehouse District, is headed for the auction block as the result of a months-long foreclosure effort. A master commissioner in charge of the sale expects the building to be auctioned within two to four months.

Associated Press business staff on 2010-08-12T17:08:58Z

Homes lost to foreclosure up 6 percent from last year

Lenders repossessed 92,858 properties last month, up 9 percent from June and an increase of 6 percent from July 2009, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-08-01T23:01:37Z

Go Invest Wisely's local track record

In many ways Go Invest Wisely LLC is emblematic of what the region faces as it contends with companies trading in distressed properties.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-08-02T14:07:10Z

Cleveland Housing Judge Raymond Pianka requiring negligent property owners to pay victim restitution to neighbors

Cleveland Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka is ratcheting up the heat on absentee property owners who spread the damage from the foreclosure crisis. They will have to pay neighbors for economic losses caused by their neglect.

Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer on 2010-07-28T16:19:57Z

Cleveland loses appeal in nuisance lawsuit vs. financiers of subprime loans

A federal appeals court has ruled that Cleveland's attempt to punish banks for bankrolling subprime loans has no merit, leaving the city with little hope of ever collecting millions of dollars in damages related to the foreclosure crisis.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-07-26T21:17:31Z

New report on the foreclosure crisis in Greater Cleveland details the problems and the response

A new report tells the story of how this region was slammed by the foreclosure crisis -- and how it has fought back.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-07-19T15:18:45Z

Foreclosure filings increase in Cuyahoga County during first half of the year

New foreclosure filings in Cuyahoga County rose more than 12 percent during the first six months of this year, with the suburbs continuing to feel the brunt of the increases.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-27T03:24:25Z

HUD ends deal allowing Cleveland to buy distressed foreclosed homes for $100

The federal housing agency has pulled the plug on a deal that helped keep some of Cleveland's worst foreclosed homes out of the hands of negligent owners.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-22T14:35:13Z

Cleveland Housing Court Judge fines 2 real estate firms about $13 million for neglect

Cleveland Housing Judge Raymond Pianka has fined two out-of-state real estate companies about $13 million -- the largest collective fines the court has imposed -- for their persistent failure to fix derelict property conditions. In a pair of blistering decisions, Pianka fined Interstate Investment Group, LLC $11.9 million and Paramount Land Holdings, LLC more than $1 million. The two are sister companies in Gilbert, S.C.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-21T23:32:02Z

Cleveland housing judge fines landowners $13 million for neglecting houses

In a pair of blistering decisions, Judge Raymond Pianka fined Interstate Investment Group $11.9 million and Paramount Land Holdings more than $1 million.

Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-10T12:59:06Z

Nation's housing crisis isn't over, experts agree at Cleveland Fed's policy summit

The nation's housing crisis is nowhere near an end, policy experts say, because we still don't quite understand everything that caused it or how to fix it.

Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-08T21:21:13Z

Cleveland Fed's annual housing policy summit to deal with mortgage crisis, other issues

Local and national experts from housing regulatory agencies, universities and think tanks will debate questions surrounding U.S. housing policy at meetings Wednesday and Thursday organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-06-03T20:47:28Z

Cleveland Housing Court's comprehensive order requiring Wells Fargo to fix distressed properties is overturned

An Ohio appeals court reversed a comprehensive Cleveland Housing Court order requiring Wells Fargo to repair or raze distressed residential properties.

Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer on 2010-05-20T11:34:53Z

Mortgage broker in Slavic Village fraud cases gets 14 years

A mortgage broker blamed for ravaging Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood -- ground zero in the nation's foreclosure crisis -- was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $6 million in restitution.

Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer on 2010-05-06T22:05:54Z

Former CMHA building inspector indicted in mortgage fraud case

A Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority inspector and other new defendants have been added to what Cuyahoga County prosecutors bill as the nation's biggest mortgage fraud cases.

Sandra Livingston, The Plain Dealer on 2010-04-21T22:55:19Z

Cuyahoga County land bank gets federal grant to assess brownfield sites

The Cuyahoga County land bank has been awarded $400,000 in federal grants to assess contaminated sites for environmental risks and potential redevelopment. The dollars are among nearly $80 million the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving to communities around the country to assess, cleanup and redevelop brownfield sites.

Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer on 2010-04-16T21:10:09Z

Mortgage broker pleads guilty to 103 counts in Slavic Village fraud case

Mark Kellogg, accused of devastating Cleveland's Slavic Village neighborhood, could spend decades behind bars after pleading guilty Tuesday to 103 mortgage fraud-related charges.