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Fannie to Allow Walkaways by On-Time Borrowers: Mortgages (Bloomberg)

Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac will let some borrowers who kept up payments as their homes lost value erase ...

Foreclosed properties are a hot topic at neighborhood meeting (Heights Observer)

The intensity stirred by the issue of foreclosed properties, bank walk-aways, vacant, poorly maintained and otherwise troubled properties in our ...

Cuyahoga County home prices start to rebound in some cities

September 2, 2012 [Mark Gillispie, The Plain Dealer] More than six years after home prices began an unprecedented decline, Cuyahoga ...

Program gives do-it-yourselfers a home-buying edge in securing foreclosed houses

August 20, 2012 [Stan Bullard, Crain's Cleveland Business] Cuyahoga Land Bank, a nonprofit that works to deal with the foreclosure ...

Talk with the Boss: Gus Frangos, head of the Cuyahoga Land Bank

August 18, 2012 [Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer] Gus Frangos is president and general counsel of the Cuyahoga County Land ...

Cook County Commissioner Lays Out Plan For Vacant Properties (Progress Illinois)

Government has tried, with limited success, to address each new wave of the foreclosure crisis. In Chicago and Cook County, ...

Land Banking Case Studies: Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation

June 20, 2012 [Christina Harris, Metropolitan Planning Council] Cities and counties across the country and in our region are exploring ...

Land Banks: Moving foreclosed properties back to productive use

April 26, 2012 [The News-Herald] The vacant bungalow at 1752 E. 228th St. in Euclid likely won’t be a typical ...

County moves toward establishing a land bank (Gazette News)

LAKE COUNTY – While not as devastated by foreclosures and abandoned properties as Cuyahoga County, Lake County officials and residents have ...
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Land Bank Making News Across Ohio

As the buzz about the Cuyahoga Land Bank's successes grows, more news outlets across the state are approaching the staff ...

Cuyahoga Land Bank demolishes 750th property

March 23, 2012 [WEWS] CLEVELAND - The Cuyahoga Land Bank is celebrating two milestones this week. On Thursday the group ...

Cuyahoga Land Bank marks milestones: 1,500 property acquisitions and 750 demolitions

March 8, 2012 [WTAM] (Cleveland) - The Cuyahoga Land Bank hit two milestones this week. It has surpassed 1,500 property ...