9 Articles match "2005","Florida","Increase"

• The Best from RealtyTrac

  MORE

• 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
  READ MORE
• 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• 1 Million Foreclosures and Counting
  
  households — up 3 percent from September and 42 percent from October 2005. Colorado and Nevada once again posted the nation’s two highest foreclosure rates thanks to increasing foreclosures in both of those states. Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, New Jersey and Utah also documented foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in October. 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. Foreclosure Market Report , released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
  
  Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the first quarter of 2007. percent reported in the first quarter of 2007. The trend lines are even closer when looking at the RealtyTrac first quarter foreclosure rate (0.515 percent of total housing units with a foreclosure filing during the quarter), which was up 21 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 — exactly the same percentage increase as the MBA foreclosure rate — and up 109 percent from
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• 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
  READ MORE
• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. 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. Texas and Florida were on top in terms of sheer number of foreclosures. RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. Thats a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure for every 986 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  Moreover, sales of California homes are expected to sink 23 percent this year compared to 2005 and fall another 7 percent next year. The expectations of the California Realtors is less bleak than a new housing report, "Housing at the Tipping Point," released this month by Moody’s Economy.com that predicts sharp declines, some nearing 20 percent in many metropolitan areas of California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Washington, D.C. These new forecasts, LONG BEACH, Calif. — If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• 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. The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states:
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  child will take a lot longer to learn to walk if her parent never lets her try on her own, but rushes over and picks her up everytime she stands up and gets ready to take a step -- because the parent is afraid that the child may fall.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE