8 Articles match "2007","Decline","Washington"

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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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• 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
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• May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
  
  percent from May 2007. The Pacific Division, which includes Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California, reported a 0.3 percent decline in home prices from May 2007. Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic in the press release announcing the numbers. "It quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
  
  Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch. Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Citigroup came out with a press statement last week projecting that the company will suffer a 60 percent decline in third quarter income between 2006 and 2007. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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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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• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies. 2007). percent during the first quarter of In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25 percent
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. quot;Little positive news can be found when cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix report annual declines as large as -29.9% quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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