10 Articles match "2006","August"

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• Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
  
  Foreclosure Market Report for August 2006 , the city also had the third highest number of foreclosures in California with a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 745 households — 1.35 Moreover, the state ranked 11 th nationally in total number of foreclosures for August 2006, an increase of 95 percent over August 2005. Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
  
  But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 But while the economy’s air traffic controllers are first trying to chart new flight plans, the nation’s foreclosure activity is flying high — up 53 percent on a yearly basis — according to the RealtyTrac August 2006 U.S. The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. 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. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest 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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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  percent back in August 2007 down to 2 percent last month, the Fed has decided to go back to the wait-and-see stance Chairman Ben Bernanke established when he first took over the reins of the agency back in August 2006. The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25 At that time former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had just finished adjusting the rate upward 17 consecutive times.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Stands Fast on Rate; Little Solace for Homeowners
  
  It wasn’t long after Ben Bernanke took over the reins of the Federal Reserve from Alan Greenspan that he put a halt to the 17 consecutive upward adjustments in the federal funds rate (FFR) — the short-term interest rate banks charge each other — back in August 2006. Although this bodes well for consumer loans, home equity lines of credit, and credit cards, it does little to alleviate the long-term effects starting to be felt by homeowners who signed on to very risky adjustable-rate subprime mortgages during 2005 and 2006. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep its hands-off stance, leaving the FFR at 5.25
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  RealtyTrac was named to the Technology Fast 50 list for 2006 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP at an awards ceremony held Tuesday. This latest award comes on the heels of RealtyTrac’s selection in August as the 53rd fastest growing privately-held company in America by Inc. 500 list for 2006 was based on three-year revenue growth from 2002 to 2005 of 1158 percent. Based on five-year revenue growth of 4647 percent (2001-2005), RealtyTrac was ranked fourth . In accepting the award, Chairman and CEO James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Since August 2006 there has not been one month where we have seen overall price increases, as measured by the two Composites,” said David M. Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Good Morning Mr. Bernanke!
  
  18 to see if economists — and the real estate industry — get what they’ve been begging for since August 2006, a cut in the Federal Funds Rate, the short-term rate banks charge to lend each other money overnight to maintain the required cash reserves on hand. Even if the Fed does finally give in, the train has already left the station for homeowners who took out those risky interest-only and other exotic mortgages between 2004 and 2006. The early morning newscast today got me wondering if Angelo Mozilo, CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp., has Ben Bernanke’s number on his cellphone?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  For anyone who purchased a property from 2004 through 2006, that leaves them potentially facing the financial hardship that distresses many homeowners over the real possibility of foreclosure. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County (a region with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation) last August calling for the creation of partnerships between community organizations and state governments as a way to stop the bleeding from an overbearing volume of foreclosure activity. In April of 2007 national civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  In August 2006, Steven Krystofiak, President of the Mortgage Brokers Association for Responsible Lending , testified before the Federal Reserve and said his group compared the income figures for 100 stated-income loans against borrower tax returns. Ninety percent of the stated-income loan applications showed earnings that were exaggerated by at least 5 percent. Sixty percent of the stated amounts were exaggerated by more than 50 percent. “Stated income loans,” Krystofiak testified , “help no one. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller 
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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