5 Articles match "2006","Decline","Detroit"

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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 percent year-over-year increase reported in the third quarter of 2006. For the second consecutive quarter Michigan’s home price appreciation declined on a year-over-year basis, dropping 0.4 An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Tops PMI's Risk Index
  
  Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent chance of declining home prices through the end of 2008. percent risk factor that home prices will decline). However, economic fundamentals are strong in most of the 50 MSAs studied — particularly due to historically low unemployment rates and strong job growth — leading PMI to conclude that the severity of the price declines in most metros will be somewhat mitigated. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. percent from a year ago, while its composite 20 metro areas also reported a record yearly decline of 15.8 Biggest decliners on a yearly basis were Las Vegas (-28.4 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,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
  
  The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history. Detroit’s Wayne County reported 4,190 properties entering foreclosure in September, the second most only behind Chicago’s Cook County (whose fans didn’t have any team to cheer in the playoffs this year). The Tigers have given local fans a chance to momentarily forget about another dubious distinction: that they reside in a city with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation . The
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  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. The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s median home price next year from a projected median price of $561,000 for 2006, down to a projected median of $550,000 in 2007 — a stark contrast to a year ago when most forecasters were predicting
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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