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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front in the mortgage responsibility debate. Interstate Commerce At first it may seem odd that mortgages are a federal matter since loans are secured by real estate and nothing is more local than dirt. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of the most galling aspects
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures: the Coming California Crash?
California foreclosure investors now have an opportunity to tap the knowledge of a 25-year real estate investing veteran who correctly predicted the last two major swings in the California real estate market and is on the verge of correctly predicting another. “Bruce Bruce Norris was dead right” about home prices in California doubling in the early 2000s after hitting bottom in 1997, said Michael Carney, Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Carney went on to say that he thinks Norris’ latest prediction, made in early 2006, that foreclosures will soar and home prices will plummet in the next few years is also likely to be correct.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Tops PMI's Risk Index
Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Given that fact, it is no surprise that two out of those four metros also documented some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country for all of 2006. According to RealtyTrac’s year-end report for 2006 , Detroit led the nation’s Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the nation, scores increased for 34 out
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A. The current Chapman estimate is for 226,000 jobs to be created by year-end 2006, with another 150,000 jobs added during 2007. Since unemployment rates are historically a good indicator of foreclosure rates, this bodes well for California homeowners, but less well for real estate investors, first-time home buyers and real estate professionals who may be waiting for the long-anticipated flood of foreclosure inventory. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University suggest that the number of foreclosures for the state will continue to dwindle for the foreseeable future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. seem to indicate that California is economically sound and stable. That said, foreclosure levels for 2007 are more likely A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals. The state hit its peak towards the end of the year,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Clash of Cultures at CAR Expo
The opening session of what is billed as “Tech Tuesday” at the California Realtor Expo 2006 provided a somewhat unvarnished glimpse into how some Realtors are responding to real estate websites that are lifting the veil on home valuations and other previously hard-to-find real estate data. In short, some Realtors take offense at such sites, which they see as giving consumers a false belief that much of the research involved in a real estate transaction can be done without the help of a Realtor. “I LONG BEACH, Calif. — I don’t think value
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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5 States = 55% of July Foreclosure Pie
California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia together accounted for 55 percent of all U.S. California reported the most foreclosure filings of any state, with 39,013. The states foreclosure activity was actually down a half a percent from the previous month but still up 289 percent from July 2006. foreclosure filings in July, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. 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. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? I think there were troubles to start with; that’s what caused the defaults and foreclosures,” said Dr.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . Sales fell by more than 20 percent in Arizona, Virginia, California, Maryland and the District of Columbia. 2.1 Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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