9 Articles match "2006","Foreclosures","New York"

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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,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
  
  Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures . During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. In 2006, Paulson started another hedge fund solely to bet against risky mortgages. You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans.
  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. 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. Thats a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure for every 986 U.S. households.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely
  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. 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
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year ago, according to the March RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report . 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 For the third month in a row U.S. In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing lender.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. Since August 2006 there has not been one month where we have seen overall price increases, as measured by the two Composites,” said David M. 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 .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
  
  Borrowers began feeling the effects of those resets during the second half of 2006. The latest victim of its own success is New Century Financial Inc. As a result, the lender’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol = NEW) plummeted almost 70 percent. And RealtyTrac will continue to provide updated The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  percent back in August 2007 down to 2 percent last month, the Fed has decided to go back to the wait-and-see stance Chairman Ben Bernanke established when he first took over the reins of the agency back in August 2006. This move by the Fed is recognition of the fact that further increases in oil prices threaten the economy by pushing up prices in goods and services, according to the New York Times . The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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