7 Articles match "2007","Decline","Detroit"

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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. With one in every 176 households receiving a foreclosure filing during July, the Detroit metro area had the 18th highest foreclosure rate among the 230 MSAs reported by RealtyTrac for the month. Reporting 4,781 properties with foreclosure filings for the month, the Detroit metroplex saw a 10 percent decline The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  For the second consecutive quarter Michigan’s home price appreciation declined on a year-over-year basis, dropping 0.4 Not coincidentally, Michigan documented the nation’s second highest foreclosure rate in January 2007, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S No other state registered declining appreciation rates, but several cities did — including Santa Barbara, Calif., An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. percent from a year ago, while its composite 20 metro areas also reported a record yearly decline of 15.8 Biggest decliners on a yearly basis were Las Vegas (-28.4 Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . In the movie,
  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. Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent chance of declining home prices through the end of 2008. percent risk factor that home prices will decline). Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s median home price next year from a projected median price of $561,000 for 2006, down to a projected median of $550,000 in 2007 — a stark contrast to a year ago when most forecasters were predicting a soft landing and few were expecting prices to fall and sales to plunge. LONG BEACH, Calif. — At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO
  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. The five — Sacramento, Tampa, Phoenix, Detroit and Orlando — were also among the nation’s top metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) ranked by foreclosure rate, according to RealtyTrac, for the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. 3) The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index also came out Tuesday with its analysis showing that consumer confidence in the nation’s economy slid nearly 12 percent in March following a sharp decline in February, and remaining at a five-year low. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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