Jeffrey Tung's Real Estate Blog

President Obama has announced that he has a program design to help homeowners that have been unemployed and other struggling borrowers. This is a program that can help stabilize home prices. The White House is also considering a program that would suspend mortgage payments for a unemployed homeowners for 3 months and give them 3 opportunities to extend the payment difference for up to 1 year.

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Do you think that the governmental programs from the president are helping the economy to get better? Well, it seems like it has based on a study by Realty Trac. February’s forclosures have declined by 2% from the previous month but still 6% above the level reported in February 2009. This means one in every 418 U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in February.

I think we are heading in the right direction but I think it is still too soon to say that we are out of the woods.

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