7 Articles match "2007","Foreclosures","Los Angeles"

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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  percent), Los Angeles (-24.5 percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. With home prices continuing to decline, both on a monthly and yearly basis, it stands to reason that distressed homeowners are 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 .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. This does not bode well for worried homeowners who are sitting on the cusp of foreclosure. Florida had 124,721 foreclosures last year — a 2 percent increase from 2005, and a foreclosure rate of one new filing for every 59 households. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures. But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one Long Beach, Calif ., Laura Richardson has lost, via foreclosure, the 1,600 square-foot, two-story Sacramento home with three bedrooms and 1.5 politician. Multiple media outlets are reporting that U.S. Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Room Enough for a Catnap
  
  In this lackluster real estate market potential homebuyers have been sitting on the fence, observing from the sidelines as the number of foreclosures keeps going up and home prices keep plummeting. The original report that went out said they were mountain lions, according to The Los Angeles Times . A search on RealtyTrac.com this morning for the Lake Elsinore area revealed What are they waiting for? Hopefully the right time to pounce on a devastated market, timing the bottom of the market before the turnaround begins.
  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. Rounding out the top 10 with their scores were: Nassau-Suffolk, NY (601); Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (600); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA (597); Boston-Quincy, MA (595); Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA (595); and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (592). Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 What does all this mean to anyone looking to the nation’s foreclosure market for a home purchase? It means that there has never been a better time in recent history to get off the fence and buy that primary residence or investment property you’ve been waiting for. the city with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in February, according to RealtyTrac. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) 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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