10 Articles match "2006","Michigan","Report"

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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. 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. Lights! Camera!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 5 States = 55% of July Foreclosure Pie
  
  California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia together accounted for 55 percent of all U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The foreclosure filings tracked in the report are default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions. California reported the most foreclosure filings of any state, with 39,013. foreclosure filings in July, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The states foreclosure activity was actually down a half a percent from the previous month but still up 289 percent from July 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
  
  New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month. That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
  
  More than 925,000 foreclosure filings were reported on more than 573,000 properties in the first half of 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Midyear 2007 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report , released yesterday. The report marks the first time that RealtyTrac has included a count of unique property addresses in some stage of foreclosure. But whether you count by total foreclosure filings or number of properties affected by foreclosure, foreclosure activity is up more than 55 percent from the first half of 2006. “The The addition of this (property count) metric to our foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  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. For the second consecutive quarter Michigan’s home price appreciation declined on a year-over-year basis, dropping 0.4 An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first quarter of 2006, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure U.S. Nevada reported the highest state foreclosure rate during the quarter, with one foreclosure filing for every 75 households — 3.5
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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 home price appreciation.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . Meanwhile, the Mortgage Bankers Association, in its quarterly snapshot of the mortgage market released today, reported that the percentage of payments that were 30 or more days past due for one-to-four unit residential properties was 4.84 percent, down 11 basis points A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
  
  According to published reports, more than 2 million Chapter 7 bankruptcies were filed that year (an all-time high) right before the new bankruptcy law went into effect. percent over 2006 to 822,590 filings (60.9 Gerdano, who expects consumer bankruptcies for 2008 to top 1 million, according to a Reuters report. The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache. In this, the legal sense for the abbreviation, we’re talking about BANKRUPTCY.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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