8 Articles match "2007","Houses","July"

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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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• MBA Numbers Mirror RealtyTrac Data:
  
  percent from July through September. Looking ahead to 2007, the mortgage association expects delinquencies and foreclosures to continue on the rise at a “modest increase” over the next several quarters “as the housing market bottoms.” The number of delinquent mortgage payments and foreclosures jumped in recent months, according to a new survey released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association . The MBA’s quarterly report — surveying more than 42 million mortgages nationwide — found that the rate of delinquencies and foreclosures rose to 4.7
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Room Enough for a Catnap
  
  Representatives of animal control services noted that bobcats are not known to attack people, but this family probably came down the hill looking for food and this particular house — which has been vacant for at least six months — has a koi pond in the backyard. A quick comparison of two zip codes in the Lake Elsinore area — 92530 and 92532 — shows a 17 percent increase in foreclosure filings in July from the previous month in both zips, while there was a 200 percent and a 138 percent increase in foreclosure filings respectively from July 2007.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
  
  The Fed’s July 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey , which covered 52 domestic banks and 21 U.S. It’s good that banks are adopting more stringent lending guidelines than the virtually nonexistent ones they employed with the 2005 to 2007 vintage mortgages — which turned out to be highly susceptible to foreclosure. But could the banks be overreacting with these tighter lending standards and thereby prolonging the housing slump? The results of a new survey released today by the Federal Reserve confirms what many people looking to buy or refinance already know — it’s hard to get approved for a loan.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
  
  During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. During the housing boom, Wall Street began repackaging mortgage securities into instruments called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, and selling slices of these securities to investors at varying levels of risk. In July 2006, the ABX You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  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. Foreclosure activity in Detroit was down nearly 4 percent from the first quarter of 2007, although the citys foreclosure rate still ranked No. On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
  
  House of Representatives earlier this week, John M. Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Reich pointed to the FHASecure program as an example, where 116,000 loans have closed since the program was launched in September 2007, but only 1,500 of them were made to refinance delinquent conventional loans. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. Representing the interests of the 826 thrift
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 quot;I think this time residential housing percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5
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