5 Articles match "2005","December","Real Estate"

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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest. 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. Foreclosure Rates - December 2006 Posted 01-16-2007 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
  
  The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
  
  It’s a recurring theme in the real estate industry; mostly visible in the financial sector, although one would have to be a fool to believe it didn’t take place in every aspect of the real estate transaction. Although these two events took place during different real estate cycles and economies, comeuppance was similarly swift for both. Greed and deceit. And let’s not forget all the news stories out there about mortgage and foreclosure scams these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  According to their latest figures, Doti noted that price appreciation on resale housing peaked during the third quarter of 2005 at 14.2 With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. Still, Doti, along with his colleague Essie Adibi, director The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
  
  Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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