Orange County Register

Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?”

• DETROIT HOUSING ON ICE: A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit’s thousands of abandoned homes this winter to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region. (Associated Press) MORE HERE!
• MOTOWN MARK-UP: Hearings are looking into why Detroit Public Schools paid double the appraised value of some properties it purchased. (Freep.com) MORE HERE!
• MLS MISSTEP? An FTC opinion accuses Michigan’s largest real-estate listing group of violating federal law by restricting some discount real-estate listings on its Web sites. (Wall Street Journal) MORE HERE!
• AND IN SEATTLE, A REPO CAPER: Seattle subcontractors who reportedly hadn’t been paid in full allegedly scaled ladders to reclaim portions of balconies they’d installed. (Seattle Weekly) MORE HERE!

PS: CHECK HERE for our coverage of O.C. real estate troubles

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