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>> martha, great to see you. >> this is interesting, they are trying to speed up the foreclosure process and get some of these homes back into working mortgages, right? >> to some extent and let's add context here. part of this, we have to look at the politics of this. this grows out of an investigation by state attorneys general and the feds into what amounted to sloppy paperwork by banks. who were rushing through foreclosure documents. mostly, with very rare exceptions, the banks were not foreclosing on people who were late with payments but were guilty of sloppy paperwork and is a huge pr n...

Real estate agents and brokers employed almost 375,000 people in 2006, but only around 284,000 at the end of 2010. >> compared to the crazy days of the early 2000s, if that business is down, it means those businesses are down, they are dependent. a home inspector, a home inspector, that's what they do, they need sales, if sales don't happen, their business hurts. and i reprimand several home inspectors in our area, every one of them has said their business is down. >> reporter: ironically the ranks of those who process and clear financial transactions, according to bls statistics, has actually...

Come together and work, let's work with the unions, let's work with the governments at the state and local level and at the federal level and see how we can tackle these issues together. this is a time where we should be coming together not polarizing the issues, and there is a lot of opportunity here to look at ways of being more efficient, doing more with less and that's really what he's encouraging everyone to do. jenna: has he sent any messages or shared any thoughts about the democrats that have left the state of wisconsin to avoid the political process from happeni happening? >> look, i ...

Where we're in the historical ballpark of home prices make sense given what rents are and what people have paid. there's not much reason to think prices are going to o'decline really significantly from here. that said they could bounce around at the bottom for a while, go up a little bit or down a little bit. we're in a much less volatile period than the last few years when we had the huge home price spikes in the last decade and then the collapse in 2008, 2009. we're in a much more stable kind of environment. >> cnbc reports a lot of empty properties. 18.4 million vacant homes are on the mark...

Foreclosures rise again this past year. they rise even higher than the year before. that's not what we want to hear. good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer. martha's on vacation with the family. good morning to you, heather. nice to see you. >> thank you very much. i'm heather childers, and another 1.2 million homes are in the process of foreclosure. bill: that jump pushed by thousands of homeowners pushed to the brink. why is this number not getting better, chris cotter? >> it's odd, we talk about all these or imagine modify -- mortgage modification programs that these banks have put into p...