...staff. [IMAGE] According to a release from FHFA, Jeffrey Spohn, deputy director of the Office of Conservatorship Operations (OCO), will retire in January. To fill the vacant role, the agency...

...allowed to stay: ""The State contends that Safeguard deceived mortgagors by placing a sticker on the door of properties found to be vacant. But the sticker attached as an exhibit...

...the Census Bureau. ""An unusually high share of vacant homes is being held off the market,"" according to Trulia. About 53 percent of vacant homes are not listed for sale,...

...construction is moving so slowly: Perhaps the ""housing shortage"" isn't one at all. [IMAGE] In a company ""blog"":http://trends.truliablog.com/2013/09/why-construction-still-so-low/, Kolko analogizes housing stock as a bathtub that drains as vacant homes...

As the market trudges toward recovery, housing starts remain depressed due to a shortage of vacant lots, according to the ""National Association of Home Builders"":http://www.nahb.org/default.aspx (NAHB). [IMAGE] Housing starts reached...

...wonderful thing after all"" when (spoiler alert) he spots Kringle's cane in a vacant, for-sale house his soon-to-be stepdaughter Susie has dreamed of. [IMAGE] In the same vein, perhaps critics...

...Mortgage Contracting Services, LLC(MCS), Asset Management Specialists, Inc.(AMS) and Vacant Property Specialists, LLC (VPS). CEP is a private investment firm based in Chicago, and TDR is a private equity firm...

...of the quarter, finished vacant inventory was down to a 20-year low, representing only a 1.7 month supply--well below the two-month supply considered to be equilibrium. With demand remaining strong...

...to 2.1 percent in the first quarter from 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter. The homeowner vacancy rate is the proportion of the homeowner inventory that is vacant for sale....

...intent to provide support for struggling neighborhoods by rebuilding vacant homes. ""Let's put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods,"" Obama said, adding that this year his...