4 Articles match "2005","Houses","January"

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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9 percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent year-over-year increase reported in the third quarter of 2006.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
House of Representatives earlier this week, John M. Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S.
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. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. Still, nearly a quarter According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
    An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9 percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent year-over-year increase reported in the third quarter of 2006.
    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. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. Still, nearly a quarter According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
    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 the first quarter of 2007. The total number of properties with foreclosure filings in the RealtyTrac April report was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
    House of Representatives earlier this week, John M. Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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