Despite the housing-bust and declining home values, many can expect to see property taxes increasing in 2010.  Local governments are turning to property taxes to help with fiscal deficits.  Homeowners in some states are fighting for caps on property tax increases, but even some of those in states with such laws are seeing higher taxes.

Morgan Stanley is predicting that the interest rate on prime 30 year fixed rate mortgages will rise to 7.5% to 8% in the second half of 2010 because of weakening demand for U.S. treasuries.

Budget cuts force staff reduction in the Wayne County, Ohio Tax Map Office.

ATG’s unique nonprofit partnership, foreclosure-prevention services and cash contributions to nonprofit organizations helped thousands in 2009.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 18, 2009.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury received repayments on its Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) investments in Wells Fargo and Citigroup in the sum of $45 billion.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously earlier this week to deny a permit for a controversial wind farm project near New Ulm, a small city of under 15,000 people in the southern part of the state.

National home prices, including distressed sales, declined by -7.8 percent in October 2009 compared to October 2008, according to First American CoreLogic and its LoanPerformance Home Price Index (HPI). This was an improvement over September’s year-over-year price decline of -9.5 percent.* On a month-over-month basis, however, national home prices declined by -0.7 percent in October 2009 compared to September 2009.