7 Articles match "2006","Homes","Land"

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• Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
  
  A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. 28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F. The home had been fraudulently purchased by Jamie Edelkind who was sentenced for 5 years in jail. The assessors Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. Kennedy’s grandfather sold at auction at a steep discount Tuesday for the price of $950,000.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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. percent from their peak in July 2006. "There quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest level since early 2004, according to the National Association of Realtors . Earlier in the year, there was a lot of discussion about a “soft landing” for the residential real estate market. 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.
  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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
  
  But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a year-over-year basis as the economy heads for a soft landing. But while the economy’s air traffic controllers 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. According to the RealtyTrac Q2 2006 Foreclosure Market Report , the total number of foreclosures in Ohio actually declined by 30 percent from Q1 2006, although still up 85 percent from Q2 2005. FDIC) reports that job growth in Ohio was less than half the national average during Q1 2006. It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." Money’s writers and editors selected from an initial pool of 745 “livable” cities with populations of more than 50,000 with good jobs, low crime, quality schools, plenty of open space, lots to do, AND rational home prices. That’s more than all the for sale by owner, resale and new homes listed on RealtyTrac in Fort Collins And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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