9 Articles match "2007","Bank Owned","Buying"

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• Stacking Up 2007 Metro Foreclosure Rates
  
  It was the usual suspects topping the 2007 MSA Foreclosure Rate Rankings released by RealtyTrac today. Of course if a large number of people do that it could flood the rental market and drive down rental rates.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 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? We'd like to hear from you when and if you plan to step in and start buying. 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.
  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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Las Vegas
  
  percent higher than April 2007. Properties owned by banks and other lenders are accounting for more than half of all the homes sold each month. percent from April 2007. Rents are rising , in areas where I own investment homes. Shari Springer Springer Realty The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported May 6 that 1,794 single-family homes were sold in April, a 21.4 percent jump over the 1,478 homes sold in March.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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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• Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
  
  percent from May 2007. percent from May 2007. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with it being a second home With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., real estate market is still declining.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  Seven-figure foreclosures — once a rarity in 2007 — are starting to pop up with more frequency in some of the wealthiest communities nationwide. 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). trolls the upper-end of the foreclosure 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosure Salvation: By Grace or By Works?
  
  The payment for those sins is often foreclosure, but Clinton wants the government to become a Messianic figure for homeowners facing foreclosure — and by default also for many lenders who approved problem loans for those homeowners — by forgiving these sins and bearing the transgressions of malevolent mortgages that no other lender or buyer is willing to touch. "That’s why I believe the Federal Housing Administration should also stand ready to be a temporary buyer — to purchase, restructure, and resell underwater mortgages," Clinton said in the speech at what was billed as the "Solutions for
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent. U.S. That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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