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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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Room Enough for a Catnap
In this lackluster real estate market potential homebuyers have been sitting on the fence, observing from the sidelines as the number of foreclosures keeps going up and home prices keep plummeting. A search on RealtyTrac.com this morning for the Lake Elsinore area revealed that 784 properties were in the pre-foreclosure stage of the process, while another 410 properties were set for auction and 1,313 properties have gone back to the lender as REOs. What are they waiting for? Hopefully the right time to pounce on a devastated market, timing the bottom of the market before
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Downpour Continues in May
REOs were up 35 percent from the previous month and 158 percent from May 2007. Default notices increased 1 percent from the previous month and were up 35 percent year over year, while auction notices decreased 3 percent from the previous month but were still up 13 percent year over year. View state-by-state data. It's apparent from the report that a high inventory of foreclosures will continue to saddle the real estate market. Foreclosure activity continued its upward climb in May, increasing on a year-over-year basis for the 29th consecutive month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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FDIC Selling Off Detroit Inventory
So it’s no wonder that it has no time to play nursemaid to a bunch of foreclosed real estate in foreclosure-laden Detroit, Mich. King Auction Company of Gadsden, Ala., to auction off 83 properties ranging in values from as low as $2,500 up to a home in the Grosse Pointe area that was recently listed for $1.3 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
foreclosure activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. In fact, the RealtyTrac report has shown month-to-month decreases in previous months, even during the dramatic run-up in foreclosure activity that has occurred over the past year and a half: in February 2008, November 2007, September 2007, June 2007, April 2007, and February 2007. U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 . And in either case, does that make the current market a good one in which to buy or invest in real estate? 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 to be a violent thunderstorm.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the first quarter of 2007. percent reported in the fourth quarter of 2007 and up 93 percent from the 1.28 percent reported in the first quarter of 2007. The trend lines are even closer The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. That closely mirrored the trend in MBA’s foreclosure rate, which put the
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- 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). which just last month was boasting an increase in loan production for January 2007 over numbers reported for the same month a year earlier. 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 problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
The rationale given for the move was the intensification of what the Fed continues to refer to as the nation’s housing “correction” which, by the way, has been ongoing for the better part of 2007. The increase in public real estate auctions. The good news for real estate investors and anyone else looking to buy real estate at below market prices anyway, is it looks like In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Make Food, Not Foreclosures
Just like it was in 2007, Wayne County has been a hotbed of foreclosure activity in Michigan so far in 2008. Similar to other parts of the nation’s Rust Belt, the county’s real estate market — particularly Detroit — is suffering. Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz is on board with the 20-plot program, entering into a partnership with the group back in November 2007. A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
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. That premise is supported by looking at the numbers in February 2007, when U.S. Eventually the bleeding will stop, and the fundamentals of a healthy real estate market will be restored. Foreclosure Market Report . So does the monthly decrease mean weve hit a ceiling of sorts for this cycle in terms of foreclosures?
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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