9 Articles match "2007","Detroit","Households"

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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 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days.
  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. Substantial increases in foreclosure activity in Detroit and Atlanta helped drive up the foreclosure rates in Michigan and Georgia. Detroit’s foreclosure total more than doubled from the previous month, giving it the nation’s highest metropolitan foreclosure rate — one new foreclosure filing for every 124 households. 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.
  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. To give you a more graphical view of the on-the-ground implications of foreclosure activity at the neighborhood level, weve created a map showing Detroit fourth-quarter foreclosure filings geographically. Five other California metro areas joined Stockton in the top 20: Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 4, Sacramento at
  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. reported the highest midyear foreclosure rate, one foreclosure filing for every 27 households during the six-month period — more than five times the national average. 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.
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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. The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report more than two years ago. U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  The notable exceptions included Detroit — a longtime posterchild for the foreclosure meltdown — and Philadelphia, along with a few other Pennsylvania metro areas. Foreclosure activity in Detroit was down nearly 4 percent from the first quarter of 2007, although the citys foreclosure rate still ranked No. Dispatches from Detroit indicate that free-market forces may be the catalyst. While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market.
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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
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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, all but four metro areas — Detroit and Warren, MI; Cleveland, OH; and Indianapolis, IN — saw employment growth. According to RealtyTrac’s year-end report for 2006 , Detroit led the nation’s 100 largest metro areas in 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
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  percent from February 2007, although the median home price of a new home increased 8.2 Still, on a yearly basis existing home sales were down almost 24 percent from February 2007, and the national median sales price for all housing types for the month was down 8.2 percent), while Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tampa, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. 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 are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad,
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