13 Articles match "2006","January","Real Estate"

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• Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
  
  Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what will prove
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Short sales rising
  
  While short sales remain a small segment of the residential real estate market, the increase bears watching for investors, buyers and real estate agents. Nationwide, a total of 130,511 new foreclosure filings were reported in January, a 19 percent increase from the previous month and a 25 percent increase from January 2006, according to ReaaltyTrac’s U.S. January’s Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  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 . Housing starts tumble sharply New residential construction fell sharply in January, plunging 14.3 For real estate Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
  
  million units economists had predicted and the largest monthly increase since January 2006. To say on top of all the latest news and events in the real estate industry, go to RealtyTrac’s News & Events section. Posted 03-21-2007 8:44 AM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. ldquo;The overall real estate market continued to slide in May, with the 10-City and 20-City Composites declining by 1.0 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
  
  The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). Borrowers began feeling the effects of those resets during the second half of 2006. which just last month was boasting an increase in loan production for January 2007 over numbers reported for the same month a year earlier. The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Now the problem has dug down to the very roots of the lending industry
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
  
  The February monthly decrease is more likely a seasonal decrease helped along by a shorter-than-average month and the fact that Januarys numbers are often padded with some pent-up foreclosure activity from the holiday season. foreclosure activity was down 6 percent from January. The more important indicator is the year-over-year increase, which has been between February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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 unemployment well above the national average, and average home prices continuing to deflate statewide, any information that can help struggling homeowners deal with their situation and become more informed borrowers in the process can only help in these times of financial turmoil that are affecting so many people around the country. Posted 07-24-2008 10:30
  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 on their
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  One such law is Illinois Senate Bill 2349 , which passed back in June and is scheduled to become effective January 1, 2007. That will leave defaulted homeowners with fewer options to avoid foreclosure, let alone recoup any equity they might have in their home. Chicago Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- Sept 2006 Posted 11-13-2006 2:08 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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