11 Articles match "2007","California","Top"

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• California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
  
  Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. The state hit its peak towards the end of the year, taking the nation’s top spot for September, October and November. seem to indicate A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals. Economic data released recently by forecasters
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Tops PMI's Risk Index
  
  Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the nation, scores increased for 34 out of the nation’s top 50 over a year earlier, with an average score of 342. Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Based on a 1000 point scale, that score translates into a 34.2
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Top Metro Foreclosure Rates
  
  Fifteen of the cities with the top 25 metro foreclosure rates in the first half of 2007 were located in California, Florida and Ohio, according to the R ealtyTrac Midyear 2007 Metropolitan Foreclosure Report , released yesterday. California led the way with seven cities in the top 25, while Florida and Ohio both had four cities. The report ranks the foreclosure rate in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas. Stockton, Calif.,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. Detroit, Stockton and Las Vegas were the top three, each with more than 4 percent of total households in some stage of foreclosure during the year. Five other California metro areas joined Stockton in the top 20: Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 4, Sacramento at No. 5, Bakersfield at No.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
  
  Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households. Texas, California and Florida continued to report the top three monthly foreclosure totals among all the states. 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
  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. In a lot of the bubble markets — like Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Orange County and the Inland Empire in California — we are going to see an increase in the number of high-end foreclosures in relatively
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. Colorado and Georgia rounded out the top three state foreclosure rates, followed by Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Texas and New Jersey. Other cities with foreclosure rates among the top 10 included Las Vegas, Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Trickle Down Effecting High-Tech
  
  Results of a survey conducted during the fourth quarter of 2007 by The NPD Group , a market research firm servicing the retail sector, revealed a direct correlation between areas hard hit by the housing crisis and a marked decrease in the sale of consumer electronics — like LCD televisions and notebook computers — and related products such as printer ink and paper. Five of the hardest hit designated market areas (DMAs) were among the top 30 based on population. The prolonged housing slump is having a measurable effect on the overall economy, and not just on home furnishings and housing supply chains (like Linens N’ Things, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  The way things are going nowadays you too have about as much a chance of correctly predicting whether the nation and the state of California are either headed towards, or are already in, a recession as any of the professionals who do it for a living. He may be correct — at least as to California — based on the latest California Consumer Confidence survey conducted by economists at the A. Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves. It’s a 50-50 crapshoot no matter which way you lean on the issue.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  billion loss reported for Q4 2007, it pales in comparison to the $961 million profit the GSE reported for the same quarter a year ago. Credit-related expenses for the quarter rose from $3 billion for Q4 2007 to $3.2 However, foreclosed property expenses decreased to $170 million for the latest quarter, from $179 million in Q4 2007. It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. And as with many corporations in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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