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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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Locate foreclosure properties Although essentially similar in process, for a homeowner to stop foreclosure in Houston the state laws may be slightly different for another city. Many homeowners who bought around the top of the market, back in 2004 through 2006, are now stuck with having purchased more home than they could afford. Through the ease of obtaining exotic adjustable rate mortgages Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
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 loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat. But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
Since January 2006 Michigan has ranked in RealtyTrac’s top 10 states with the greatest foreclosure activity in the nation, most of that time maintaining a position in the top five. With all these distressed homeowners getting into financial trouble, combined with layoffs from the auto industry, it’s understandable that the state government may want to do something to promote homeownership and to educate its citizens about the details of what owning a home really means from a practical standpoint. Lights! Camera!
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Stands Fast on Rate; Little Solace for Homeowners
It wasn’t long after Ben Bernanke took over the reins of the Federal Reserve from Alan Greenspan that he put a halt to the 17 consecutive upward adjustments in the federal funds rate (FFR) — the short-term interest rate banks charge each other — back in August 2006. Needless to say, many real estate industry analysts are hoping the Fed continues to maintain this wait-and-see attitude towards the national economy for the remainder of 2007, giving the industry a chance to fully recover its lost luster after five years of prosperity. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep its hands-off stance, leaving the FFR at 5.25
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
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 . 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 for real estate investors, speculators, real estate agents and anyone looking to buy a home from the foreclosure pipeline. Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
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. 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 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon, and as air currents are changing, pilots are starting to throttle back and slow things down a bit, and distressed homeowners are belted into their seats as they find themselves in for a more bumpy ride in the foreseeable future. But in Whether the on-coming turbulence translates into more foreclosure activity at the national level is uncertain. percent as unemployment rises over
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Locate foreclosure properties Although essentially similar in process, for a homeowner to stop foreclosure in Houston the state laws may be slightly different for another city. Many homeowners who bought around the top of the market, back in 2004 through 2006, are now stuck with having purchased more home than they could afford. Through the ease of obtaining exotic adjustable rate mortgages Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble? Foreclosure Market Report for August 2006 , the city also had the third highest number of foreclosures in California with a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 745 households — 1.35 Or consider New Jersey, which had the highest monthly housing cost for homeowners in the nation, at $1,938. Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. A new report just released by the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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