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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
  
  That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households. New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first quarter of 2006, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Colorado and Georgia rounded out the top three state foreclosure rates, followed by Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Texas and New Jersey. Other cities with foreclosure rates among the top 10 included Las Vegas, Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Priced to Foreclose
  
  The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. Many of the states near thebottom of that list -- namely Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Texas and Georgia -- also appeared among the top 10 on RealtyTracs list of state foreclosure rates in the first quarter. A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  percent, down 11 basis points from the previous quarter, but up 43 basis points from the first quarter of 2006. Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the number of foreclosure filings, California topped the list, with 39,659 in May, and Florida was number two, with 21,704, according to RealtyTrac’s report. The Top 10 was rounded out by seventh place Illinois with 6,824 filings, Colorado with 6,321, Arizona with 5,918 and Nevada with 5,235 foreclosure filings. A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA). It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosure rate has moved higher, and it’s the second straight month new foreclosures have topped 100,000. Texas and Florida were on top in terms of sheer number of foreclosures. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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