9 Articles match "2006","August","Homes"

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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  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 . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 percent In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
  
  Take San Diego, for example, where the median price of a home jumped from $249,000 to $567,000 in five years (2000-2005). Not only is San Diego unaffordable for many first-time home buyers, but, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. 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 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 Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a year-over-year basis as the economy heads for a soft landing. But while the economy’s air traffic controllers 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
  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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• 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. Saccacio credited the company’s continued success to a loyal customer base of real estate investors, home buyers and real estate professionals who continue to see the value of the information and research tools RealtyTrac provides to successfully take advantage of foreclosure opportunities where they present themselves. Based on five-year revenue growth of 4647 percent (2001-2005), RealtyTrac was ranked fourth . In accepting
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Good Morning Mr. Bernanke!
  
  This nation’s economy is based on consumer confidence to go out and spend money, using credit cards, taking out car loans and home mortgages. 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 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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• 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. Stated income loans hurt everyone, the home buyer, the institution who
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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