7 Articles match "2005","Houses","Realtor"

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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. Moreover, sales of California homes are expected to sink 23 percent this year compared to 2005 and fall another 7 percent next year. LONG BEACH, Calif. — If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Between those two extremes, other concerns included: a burst of the housing bubble, rising mortgage rates and depreciating home values. It seems to fly in the face of recent market activity statewide reported by the Florida Association of Realtors . Yet despite lower sales volume, FAR also reported that the states median home price continues to go up -- 11 percent on a yearly basis from May 2005, and 15 percent year-to-date, giving some 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Dealing With the Affordability Quandry
  
  Especially in light of the new consumer index just announced by the California Association of REALTORS®. First-Time Buyer Housing Affordability Index (FTB-HAI) , it is a wake-up call for first timers in that it measures the percentage of first-time buyers who can legitimately afford to purchase a median-priced home in California. As of Q2 2006 the index stood at 23 percent, down from 26 percent for the previous quarter and 30 percent for Q2 2005. In addition to real estate investors and agents, the RealtyTrac website can be a great help to first-time homebuyers looking for a way to get into a home at a price that is more affordable, even in areas where prices seem out of reach for most people.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  All five of the states with foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors reported annual foreclosure rates of more than 1 percent of total households along with increasing foreclosures in 2005. Let us know about where youve found the best deals with foreclosures. Posted 03-17-2006 5:12 PM by darenb Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  There will be more people that can afford to buy a house now, since prices were going too high too fast. Why rent, when you can buy!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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