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Realtors hope $25B foreclosure settlement will spark housing revival (access required)

By john.stodder
Published: February 14,2012

With the residential real estate industry shell-shocked from years of a moribund market, its spokespeople can be forgiven for taking a cautious attitude toward last week’s announcement of a $25 billion settlement with five of the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over flawed and fraudulent foreclosure practices.


This property is condemned … some day (access required)

By john.stodder
Published: February 7,2012

A big takings case reported by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly has all the ingredients to pit property-rights advocates against an arrogant government agency willing to send certain property owners into decades of limbo for its own convenience.