Paddy Deighan Real Estate Blog

More good news on the loan application and approval front….In an effort to more fairly treat borrowers whose credit reports contain collections actions and disputed debt accounts, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has eased previous rules that would have led to large numbers of application...

In the wake of last year’s multiple foreclosure fraud and abuse settlements and ongoing dispersion of housing assistance funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), many former homeowners thought that they would be receiving some form of compensation for wrongful foreclosures and poorly-...

There is no question that Las Vegas was among the hardest hit real estate markets in the country.  There is also little question that it was slow to recover. However, once recovery started, it seemed to explode almost overnight. I live here part time and it seemed that suddenly, the market turned...

 A court in New York ruled that there are “genuine factual disputes” that justify letting the case continue against the second-largest U.S. bank. Only a few prominent cases tied to the financial crisis have ever gone to trial. Judge Rakoff also stated that he will decide before trial which specif...

Just in case you believe that Home Owners’ Associations (HOAs) have too much time on their hands and too much control, here is yet another restrictive HOA story.  In many states, neighborhood homeowners’ associations (HOAs) can regulate just about anything – and everything – they wish. However, a...

I have never been a particular fan of Facebook. They do not respect privacy and they allow politics to interfere in the social networking sphere and there is no place for this in their reality.. They are allowed to do things with information that you are not allowed to do…adding to my disdain for...

I haev had the pleasure of running a business in Austin, Texas and I enjoyed (almost) every miunte of being there. I was not surprised to see another validation for all of the reasons that I loved it there.  During the ownership of several dermatology and plasti csurgery network centers there, I ...

This bliog by Geirge ins importqnt because there is a lot of misinformation about credit that is floating out there....it is also oimportatn to realize that the "date of last activity" is critical in credit matters and frequently it is better to not try and fix something that may come off soon an...

I found an article that was pretty interesting.  It compared real estate trends among the different generations. Generation Y is men and women from 18 to 34 years of age—largely prefer downtown living, often in rental apartments with easy access to walkable neighborhoods and public transportation...

Mortgage rates are not the only thing that is rising. Closing costs are on the rise too. Closing costs on a home sale excluding title insurance rose 6 percent year over year in June, averaging $2,402 on a $200,000 mortgage, according to an annual survey by financial rate comparison site Bankrate....