16 Articles match "2006","Homes","Research"

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• Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
  
  Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast Reaching a double-digit peak above 14 percent before dropping back to 9 percent over the past six months, the rate of price appreciation is still more than double the norm (4 percent) for the nation over time.
  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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• Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
  
  and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . Carney was speaking at the research council’s most recent quarterly luncheon, where foreclosures were the topic of the day. Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern California’s cooling housing market as a somewhat cryptic slowing of demand for housing in 2006. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
  
  A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes. Foreclosure filings jumped 42 percent nationwide in 2006, accelerating a trend that began in 2005 as home sales started to cool. Last year, 1,259,118 U.S. properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according to RealtyTrac research
  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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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade. At the Auction! Do your research... Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  RealtyTrac was named to the Technology Fast 50 list for 2006 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP at an awards ceremony held Tuesday. Saccacio credited the company’s continued success to a loyal customer base of real estate investors, home buyers and real estate professionals who continue to see the value of the information and research tools RealtyTrac provides to successfully take advantage of foreclosure opportunities where they present themselves. Based on five-year revenue growth of 4647 percent (2001-2005), RealtyTrac was ranked fourth . In
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Bargains on the Beach
  
  What it comes down to in order to successfully purchase beachfront property is identifying good potential markets to invest in, and doing some legwork and research to analyze what it is going to take in order to put together a deal with the homeowner or lender involved in the foreclosure. Recently, RealtyTrac published its own list of potential beachfront investment communities ripe for the purchase of vacation homes on the home page of Yahoo! The list enumerated in that article is based upon an initial list created in 2006 by its business partner Neighborhood Scout.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
  
  Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This Based on his latest property surveys (conducted December 2006), the Director of Research and Analytics for First American CoreLogic concluded in his latest report titled, “Mortgage Payment Reset: The
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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