9 Articles match "2006","Bank Owned","Homes"

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• Major Banks Still Grappling With Foreclosures
  
  Whitney Predicts 25% Home Price Plunge Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009 U.S. home prices–which have already tumbled nearly a third from the 2006 peak–could plunge by another 25% as high unemployment levels continue, according...( Tags: Bank-Owned/REOs foreclosures housing slum Too Gloomy? read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, September 11, 2009
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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions. The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. percent from their peak in July 2006. "There quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." Money’s writers and editors selected from an initial pool of 745 “livable” cities with populations of more than 50,000 with good jobs, low crime, quality schools, plenty of open space, lots to do, AND rational home prices. According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
  
  The tightened lending standards, coupled with stagnant home price appreciation, leaves many homeowners in default unable to refinance their way out of foreclosure. The subprime meltdown being reported now is mostly due to defaults that occurred in the first two-thirds of 2006. Even if they don’t plan to buy immediately, investors and buyers who are serious about finding good deals should start looking now so theyre prepared The subprime mortgage industry is stumbling under a heavy burden of defaults, watching profits dwindle as lenders are forced to buy back loans that have turned sour.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Short sales rising
  
  Short sales occur when home prices fall and mortgage debt exceeds the value of the property. If the lender agrees, homeowners can sell their depreciated home and settle their debt for a reduced sum. If a short sale doesn’t work, it eventually becomes a bank-owned foreclosure. Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
  
  If you look back at the RealtyTrac monthly reports, activity has increased on a year-over-year basis every month since January 2006, the first month that YOY stats were available. So the overall trend -- at least on a national basis -- is steadily upward. View full February report. Posted 03-13-2008 2:01 AM by joelc Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. But that may be better than the alternative — a costly and lengthy process that will
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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