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Major Banks Still Grappling With Foreclosures
Whitney Predicts 25% Home Price Plunge Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009 U.S. home prices–which have already tumbled nearly a third from the 2006 peak–could plunge by another 25% as high unemployment levels continue, according...( Tags: Bank-Owned/REOs foreclosures housing slum Too Gloomy? read more )
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- Friday, September 11, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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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. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. 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. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Major Banks Still Grappling With Foreclosures
Whitney Predicts 25% Home Price Plunge Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009 U.S. home prices–which have already tumbled nearly a third from the 2006 peak–could plunge by another 25% as high unemployment levels continue, according...( Tags: Bank-Owned/REOs foreclosures housing slum Too Gloomy? read more )
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- Friday, September 11, 2009
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. 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 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. 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 . Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. The biggest declines were in Florida-Sarasota-Bradenton (down 18 percent),
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Priced to Foreclose
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. 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. homes are appreciating at the slowest quarterly rate since the firstquarter of 2004. The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year
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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. percent chance of lower home prices nationwide over the next two years. Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent chance of declining home prices through the end of 2008. 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 of the nation’s top 50
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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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. Doti, president of Chapman University, updated his 2006 economic forecast for the nation, he did have one question that could throw a monkey wrench into the equation, and he called it, THE BIG IF . That question is: “What IF housing prices plummet?” For subscribers to RealtyTrac the answer to that question is worth considering. If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners into foreclosure, providing new opportunities
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern California’s cooling housing market as a somewhat cryptic slowing of demand for housing in 2006. That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I I think there were troubles to start
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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