7 Articles match "2007","Homes","Michigan"

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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 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 An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. percent from the previous quarter
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
  
  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 Nationwide, the OFHEO report showed home prices in May were down 0.3 quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but the numbers in the Pacific, East and West North Central Divisions may be good signs," said OFHEO Director James B.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Make Food, Not Foreclosures
  
  Just like it was in 2007, Wayne County has been a hotbed of foreclosure activity in Michigan so far in 2008. Contributing to the downfall are high unemployment, low home sales volume and deflating home prices. Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz is on board with the 20-plot program, entering into a partnership with the group back in November 2007. A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that Wayne County, Mich.,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  Among the hardest-hit states were California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Considering that the housing market is expected to continue to be slow through 2007, there could be increases Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  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. ldquo;As the initial shock of home price declines dissipate and markets settle down from volatility of the last nine months, we’re seeing tremendous opportunity. As a result of the losses, Fannie is revising its forecast for home price declines from a 5 to 7 percent loss nationally for all of 2008, 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
  
  And for struggling homeowners it often represents what they think is the last stand they can take before losing their home to foreclosure. Well, the American Bankruptcy Institute just released its numbers for calendar year 2007 and consumer bankruptcies were up 37.6 The latest figures ratify trends that began last year, depicting households under growing stress from heavy consumer debts, now in homes they can’t afford and can’t sell,” The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache. In this, the legal sense for the abbreviation,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. U.S. Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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