Coldwell Banker CEO Jim Gillespie

Attends Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller awards banquet and shares insight into 2011 market

MLS Statistics- 2010 Year Totals

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Should you give your kid a down payment?

Coeur d' Alene Place introduces new gated maintenance-free neighborhood

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Foreclosure Freeze 101: Why banks are halting foreclosures and what impact it will have

Erroneous documents. A freeze on foreclosures. Charges of fraud.

A flurry of developments have sketched an alarming scenario: that major U.S. banks rammed through foreclosure after foreclosure without giving many borrowers a fair shot at keeping their homes.

Questions have arisen about the scope of the problem, the effect on the nation's foreclosure epidemic and the likelihood that some people could regain their foreclosed homes.

Here's what you need to know about the unfolding foreclosure mess:

Greenstone Homes in Builder Magazine

Cozy Cottages

Empty nesters have especially loved the master-down cottage plans in the Rocky Hill community (one even features two master suites on the ground floor), and the fact that yard work, mowing, and snow removal are handled by the HOA.

“We have been seeing a combination of young professionals and move-down buyers as the demographic,” says Jayson Hunnel, sales and marketing director for Greenstone. “We just did eight of these in a block at our Ponderosa Ridge community and they were all purchased by empty nesters and sold before the first building was framed.”

Project: Rocky Hill
Location: Liberty Lake, Wash.
Builder: Greenstone Homes