The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "foreclosure data" ...
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Data for Tracking the Subprime Story
The author discusses how to find data reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and query it to find information about high-interest loans. Maines also discusses how to tie the database results into a story about foreclosures in your area.
Tags: foreclosure; mortgage; housing; database analysis; HMDA
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Investigating Subprime Lending and Foreclosures: HMDA Data
Thompson describes how to use the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) database in order to investigate subprime lending in your community. She explains what fields in the database will reveal subprime lending, and how to use an "update function" to count the subprime loans and apply a demographic element. The tipsheet ends with a list of helpful sources, such as the Consumer Federation of America and the State Licensing Board.
Tags: foreclosure; subprime lending; data analysis; Microsoft Access; queries
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Using CAR for covering housing foreclosures
At the 2007 CAR Conference, Jill Reipenhoff and Geoff Dutton shared various sources of information useful for investigations about home foreclosures. Some of the sources include the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, county auditors, and the National Delinquency Survey. The authors also share some examples of their own analysis on the topic.
Tags: property law; eviction; landlords; mortgage; real estate; data analysis; HUD; assessment
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A Neighborhood Built to Fail
Mellnik discusses how to identify foreclosures, starter homes and lenders from various public records. He explains how to use the register of deeds, county property records, FHA data, building permits, bankruptcy filings, and consultant reports to find data for a story about property records. He also includes some tips about mapping foreclosures.
Tags: property; foreclosure; mapping; data analysis; public records; real estate; beat reporting
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Property, mortgages and foreclosures
The authors explain how paper and electronic records from property transactions, mortgages, property taxes and foreclosures can provide essential information for reporters on that beat. The authors refer back to their own experience using those records to offer tops about finding and understanding similar data.
Tags: real estate; property; taxes; Home Mortgage Lending; mapping; Census; demographics
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Predatory Lending
Predatory lending is "not just abusive lending; it's abusive mortgage lending. And it's been happening for decades but grown in recent years as investors' tastes for high-risk mortgages have grown." Includes tips on how to figure out if predatory lending is happening in your community and what is being done about the problem.
Tags: housing; Department of Housing and Urban Development; HUD; neighborhoods; banks; state regulators; foreclosure data; poor credit histories; lending reputation; ACORN