9 Articles match "2005","Florida","Households"

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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two extremes,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. households. More than 1.2 Foreclosure Market Report released yesterday.
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• Foreclosures Thrive in Third Quarter
  
  More than 300,000 new foreclosure filings were reported nationwide during the quarter, up 17 percent from the previous quarter and up 43 percent from the third quarter of 2005. That brings the year-to-date foreclosure total to more than 900,000, more than in all of 2005 and on pace to hit 1.2 Colorado documented the highest foreclosure rate during the quarter — one new foreclosure filing for every With home price appreciation slowing and the inventory of unsold homes expanding, the third quarter proved to be fertile ground for sprouting foreclosures, according to RealtyTrac’s quarterly foreclosure market report .
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Dips in February
  
  Still, the 130,786 foreclosure filings reported in February — one foreclosure filing for every 884 households — represented the second highest total reported since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. million foreclosures for 2007, which would be a 33 percent increase from 2006 — still below the 42 percent year-over-year increase documented between 2005 and 2006. RealtyTrac released its February U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today, and the report shows that U.S.
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• 1 Million Foreclosures and Counting
  
  households — up 3 percent from September and 42 percent from October 2005. Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, New Jersey and Utah also documented foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in October. California recorded more than 16,000 new foreclosure filings during the month, the most of any state for the second month in a row and more than three times the number reported in October 2005. Foreclosures filings for the year surpassed the 1 million mark in October, when 115,568 foreclosure documents were recorded nationwide, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  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). 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. It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. households. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling or refinancing RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. quot;Although only about 2 percent of households nationwide will be in some stage of foreclosure this year, these properties contribute to already bloated inventories of homes for sale, and put downward pressure on home values," said James J. According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  households who live in rental properties, these renters will jump in and start buying. Of course, the other 30 percent of current homeowners will feel the pain financially. We had to do it, sadly, because of our elderly parents in need of assistance — so we moved to South Florida . We sold in 2005 when we realized we could not buy in our neighborhood nor could any of our neighbors. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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