11 Articles match "2005","2006","California"

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• 2006 Foreclosure Filings Surpass 1.2 Million
  
  million foreclosure filings were reported nationwide during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005 and a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 92 households, according to the RealtyTrac 2006 U.S. The number of total foreclosure filings rose from about 885,000 in 2005 to 1,259,118 in 2006. The 2006 total represents more than 1 percent of U.S. More than 1.2 Foreclosure Market Report released yesterday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
  
  Census Bureau , based on 2005 data, suggests that the American public is spending more of their disposable income on necessities — especially owner occupied and rental housing. Foreclosure Market Report for August 2006 , the city also had the third highest number of foreclosures in California with a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 745 households — 1.35 Moreover, the state Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  But the 109,652 new foreclosure filings during the month still represented a 35 percent increase from December 2005 and marked the fifth consecutive month with a foreclosure total above 100,000, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Texas foreclosure activity increased 4 percent, helping the state reclaim the top spot from California in terms of total foreclosures. U.S. foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Dealing With the Affordability Quandry
  
  Especially in light of the new consumer index just announced by the California Association of REALTORS®. First-Time Buyer Housing Affordability Index (FTB-HAI) , it is a wake-up call for first timers in that it measures the percentage of first-time buyers who can legitimately afford to purchase a median-priced home in California. As of Q2 2006 the index stood at 23 percent, down from 26 percent for the previous quarter and 30 percent for Q2 2005. In addition to real estate investors and agents, the RealtyTrac website can be a great help to first-time homebuyers looking for a way to get into a home at a price that is more affordable, even in areas where prices seem out of reach for most people.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Short sales rising
  
  Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Nationwide, a total of 130,511 new foreclosure filings were reported in January, a 19 percent increase from the previous month and a 25 percent increase from January 2006, according to ReaaltyTrac’s U.S. January’s total was the highest since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. Today, approximately 10 percent of the listed properties are short
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. Many insurance companies that WERE writing homeowner’s insurance policies pulled out of California altogether after that one. Florida had 124,721 foreclosures last year — a 2 percent increase from 2005, and a foreclosure rate of one new filing for every 59 households. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
  
  Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University , the key concern is all those people who signed up for those “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages in 2005 and thereafter. Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. Now the stage is set.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states: 619 percent in Arizona; 597 percent in New York; 557 percent in California; and 464 percent in Florida. View full March report. Posted 04-15-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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