5 Articles match "2006","December","Homes"

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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (better known as Freddie Mac) has just released the results of its 23rd Annual Adjustable-Rate Mortgage survey of prime loans. Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid
www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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 . million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • 2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
    The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (better known as Freddie Mac) has just released the results of its 23rd Annual Adjustable-Rate Mortgage survey of prime loans. Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
    That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . 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.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
    Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 percent (nationally) and then plummeted to 1 percent by the third quarter of 2006. Still, Doti, along with his colleague Essie Adibi, director of the Anderson Center, are diligently standing by their 2007 forecast made last December that real GDP will pickup for the second quarter of 2007 (2.1 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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 . million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. 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.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
    Based on his latest property surveys (conducted December 2006), the Director of Research and Analytics for First American CoreLogic concluded in his latest report titled, “Mortgage Payment Reset: The Issue and the Impact,” that marketplace remediation has already begun as borrowers and lenders negotiate refinances whenever possible. Confirming what RealtyTrac has reported previously, Cagan noted that it is borrowers who went with either sub-prime loans, or loans with smaller teaser rates initially to finance their home purchase, who stand to bear the greatest burden as the onslaught
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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