Foreclosure Crisis Spreads Across U.S.; Idaho Defaults Mount


Nan Holmes, a superior escrow executive at a title insurer, says her insider’s view of the restricted market gave her the confidence three years ago to pay $370,000 for a new home in Boise, Idaho. She get a price she liked from the designer and 100 percent bank finance.

That was previous to the base fell out of the housing market in California, Nevada and Florida as borrowers with bad credit begin defaulting in record numbers, setting off a depression. Holmes, who had earned $150,000 a year when real estate was booming, saw her recompense shrink by half when business refrigerated, forcing her to dip into savings and sell jewelry. She stopped up paying the move forward in April and has put the house on the market for $145,000 less than she owes the bank.

“How long will it take for the market to turn so I can just break even?” Holmes, 55, said as she sat in her house in Boise’s tree-lined Collister neighborhood, four miles (6.4 kilometers) from the state capitol.

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