8 Articles match "2005","Inventory","Sales"

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• 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
  
  Housing starts are expected to remain down in many parts of the country, due to increased marketing time and inventories of unsold homes that grew from a 3.7-month supply in 2005 to a 7.3-month supply in 2006 at the national level. Mortgage rates increased 15 percent between 2005 and 2006, but economist and Chapman President James L. 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. housing market into a full tailspin, according to
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Goes Out Like a Lamb
  
  Even with the drop, over 100,000 new properties entered some stage of foreclosure in March, and the foreclosure rate still represented a 63% increase over March 2005. Will Spring sales keep foreclosure rates from creeping up? There is just too much inventory out there, especially in the previous hot markets such as Phoenix and San Diego. A glimmer of hope or the calm before the storm? Whichever way you choose to view it, the good news is that the national foreclosure rate dropped by 13% in March, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Make Food, Not Foreclosures
  
  allow it to garden vacant lots from the thousands of foreclosures in the county’s inventory and allow its volunteers to plow and plant them in order to grow fruits and vegetables for needy locals. Contributing to the downfall are high unemployment, low home sales volume and deflating home prices. Urban Farming has been doing this around the country since it was founded A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that Wayne County, Mich.,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
  
  I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with it being a second home community, people from out of state are not jumping on the buying wagon since their present homes, which are up for sale, are still not selling. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., real estate market is still declining.
  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. Still, nearly a quarter million properties in one month can have a significant impact on a housing market that is registering about 5 million existing home sales for the entire year . "Although 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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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. 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. It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  The Detroit Free Press reported that "Detroit home sales shot up 30.8% That in turn allows lenders to start unloading foreclosure inventory, easing a heavy burden that has been weighing down the citys housing market. Different forces may be at work in Philadelphia, helping that citys foreclosure rate remain relatively low. moratorium on all foreclosure sales scheduled in April there has now been replaced by a pilot program that delays foreclosure proceedings on owner-occupied properties until While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  The estimates ranged from 25 to 40 percent from peak to trough, but all the economists thought prices could overshoot going down (as they did going up) and could be down as much as 55 percent in parts of Southern California.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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