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Report gives insight into foreclosures, but picture might be incomplete (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: June 24,2011

This month, the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association rolled out a new report designed to give more insight into the volume of foreclosures and short sales taking place in the Charlotte area. The report, free to CRRA members and the public, focuses on so-called lender-mediated real estate activity. But while the report helps to shed some [...]


Just how bad is the foreclosure problem? That’s a good question, Charlotte experts say (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: May 27,2011

Jim Kluth remembers in the 1980s when real estate agents, hoping to get first dibs on foreclosed properties, would hang around the Mecklenburg County Courthouse and regularly dig through public records looking for new foreclosure filings. Today, such information is more readily available and accessible, thanks to the Internet. But Charlotte-area experts say the glut [...]