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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
Already, there’s a glut of McMansions in the $500,000 to $1 million range that have been foreclosed by lenders — and many more are falling into foreclosure, according to an analysis of RealtyTrac foreclosure records in 2006 and 2007 (see graphic). That was up 169 percent over 2006. Those buyers are upside down now and are just walking 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.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and second
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- 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
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. Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise, the number of single-family permits are declining, It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
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. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast for anyone interested in foreclosure property. And it is one of the reasons that foreclosure activity is expected to remain at a slow upward rate of increase, as evidenced Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. Reaching
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 The good news is that the negative savings rate of the last two years appears to be a byproduct of voracious consumer spending not rampant unemployment like that which occurred during the Great Depression. Realtytrac.com post on 2006 report "Foreclosure Market Report, which shows more than 1.2 A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
Borrowers began feeling the effects of those resets during the second half of 2006. which was being courted for a buyout by Credit Suisse Group, is now being sold to Citadel Investment Group LLC, which won the right to purchase the lending institution for $180 million in a last minute auction, according to Bloomberg News . This latest news comes right on the heels of a joint request by federal regulators Friday for comments on proposed tightening regulations for the subprime mortgage The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally).
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
And let’s not forget all the news stories out there about mortgage and foreclosure scams these days. Also, a well-known online news source for the mortgage industry has published a new online journal called “The Mortgage Graveyard” detailing the struggles and failures of mortgage companies dating back to 1999. Even though an estimated 19 percent of all loans originated in 2005 and 2006 were subprime ARMs (according to a December 2006 report published by the Center for Greed and deceit. It’s a recurring theme in the real estate industry; mostly visible in the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
times the national average based on RealtyTrac numbers from the first quarter of 2006 (we plan to release full details on those numbers sometime next week). closely matches the description given in news reports about the historic residence. A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
Wells Fargo, the biggest originator of subprime loans, according to National Mortgage News , announced this week that they would be cutting 320 jobs in their subprime mortgage division because of tighter lending standards. The subprime meltdown being reported now is mostly due to defaults that occurred in the first two-thirds of 2006. The subprime mortgage industry is stumbling under a heavy burden of defaults, watching profits dwindle as lenders are forced to buy back loans that have turned sour. This bottom-line reality is forcing many lenders to tighten their lending requirements.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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