California Home Loan 360

WASHINGTON – A Senate bill aimed at reviving the beleaguered U.S. housing market could make borrowing for a home more expensive in high-priced markets such as California and New York.

The plan gains support as pressure mounts on both political parties. The House on Thursday passed the most sweeping government plan yet to shore up the troubled housing market and help people struggling to pay their mortgages, adopting legislation that would underwrite $300 billion in new loans and keep an estimated 500,000 homeowners out of foreclosure.

Although analysts maintain the Silicon Valley region's housing market is faring better than other parts of the state, real estate agents acknowledge it is a tough time.

If Clarksville's housing market reflects any of the symptoms of the nation's lingering mortgage crisis, it's probably more of an indirect consequence, local real estate industry leaders and economists insist.

We hear the stories nearly every day...about the collapse in the housing market which appears to be pulling the economy along with it. But is the Mid-Ohio Valley part of that collapse?

There's still plenty of pain ahead for Silicon Valley's housing market as more homeowners faced the threat of foreclosure in the first three months of this year than during any quarter on record.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An influential economist who long predicted the housing market bubble cautioned Tuesday that the slump in the U.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - An influential economist who long predicted the housing market bubble cautioned today that the slump in the U.

Brace for more bad news about the housing market to surface this week. DataQuick Information Systems is slated to release a report on Southern California foreclosure activity, and it's likely to show more homeowners facing financial hardship.

The Silicon Valley housing market got walloped in March, as median prices fell sharply and sales hit record lows for the month.