5 Articles match "2005","Auctions","Repossessions"

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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. But that may be better than the alternative — a costly and lengthy process that will quite
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Up Across the Board in November
  
  The report shows increases in all three phases of the foreclosure process — default, auction and bank repossession. Defaults and auctions each accounted for about 40 percent of the total, while bank repossessions accounted for about 20 percent of the total. The national foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 961 households represented a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from November 2005. Foreclosures hit their highest level of the year so far in November, with 120,334 new foreclosure filings reported nationwide during the month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Up 7 Percent in March
  
  The March total — which includes default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005 and resulted in a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 775 U.S. With 149,150 foreclosure filings reported nationwide in March, U.S. foreclosure activity was up 7 percent from the previous month and 47 percent from a year ago, according to RealtyTracs foreclosure market report that was released yesterday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Downpour Continues in May
  
  households received a foreclosure filing during the month, the highest monthly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005. Bank repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of the total activity and the biggest increase among the three types of foreclosure filings tracked in the report. Default notices increased 1 percent from the previous month and were up 35 percent year over year, while Foreclosure activity continued its upward climb in May, increasing on a year-over-year basis for the 29th consecutive month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent. That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. This shift in percentages shows that a higher U.S. foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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