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• 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
  
  That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 Doti expects the Federal Reserve to hold fast in 2007, keeping the much-watched Federal Funds Rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend money to each other) at or near its current 5.25 The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Governor Suspends Controversial Law Affecting Investors
  
  But House Bill 4050 (renamed Public Act 94-280) is now null and void, which should be a relief to real estate investors and prospective homebuyers looking for bargain property in south Chicago . Rod Blagojevich suspended the law on January 19, 2007. A statement released by Dean Martinez, Secretary, Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, explained the decision to It was controversial when it took effect, and it remained controversial until public officials decided enough was enough – roughly a little more than a year later. Responding to the public outcry of legislative
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
  
  Declining numbers are being felt across the board in residential building permits, housing starts (projected to be down 10 percent for 2006 and another 6 percent in 2007) and completions, resulting in a total $64 billion drop in residential construction. If these concerns fuel a downward spiral, home prices could drop significantly, resulting in a loss of homeowner equity (which in itself could have serious economic repurcussions) and an increase in the inventory of foreclosure properties. Experts like Doti see this scenario as unlikely. Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
  
  February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. That premise is supported by looking at the numbers in February 2007, when U.S. The next official metro list will be for the first quarter of 2007 and should be out around the third week in April. Foreclosure Market Report . So does the monthly decrease mean weve hit a ceiling of sorts for this cycle in terms of foreclosures?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
  
  And the projections are that there will be much more foreclosure activity in 2007 and 2008, especially as the effects of an estimated $1 trillion in “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages start being felt. RealtyTrac is a prime source of information that can provide you with leads and educate you on how to help these people in a way that is a win-win-win situation for the needy homeowner, for you and the lender who doesn’t want to take the property back in foreclosure. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time we take to reflect on our lives and what we can do to make the world a better place in which to live.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Fed Rate Decision is Ongoing'
  
  Even the National Association of Realtors, which originally thought the nation’s housing market would turn around significantly by year-end 2007, is pulling back a bit on its forecast , now calling for home sales to stabilize where they are this year, with noticeable improvement in sales activity by mid-2008. The longer this “correction” is ongoing, the longer investors and serious homebuyers have to find a bargain property, and still at near historically low interest rates (although qualifying for a loan these days has been made much tougher thanks to the mess left from the subprime
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  Banks and Builders Buckle If 2007 was the year of the mortgage meltdown, where hundred of subprime lenders became extinct, then 2008 could shape up to be the year where banks and homebuilders buckle under the crushing strain of debt. This week alone, two trophy properties were swept away in the foreclosure tsunami. Look to ForeclosurePulse Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
  
  Titled the “Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007,” HR 3648 is sponsored by Rep. Even when buyers knew they wouldn’t be able to afford their mortgage when their rate adjusted, they figured that they could just refinance into a better mortgage – and that would be easy since property values were appreciating 50% or more each year. Carey, “almost 37 percent of seriously delinquent loans (including loans 90 or more days past due and those in foreclosure) in the second quarter of It wasn’t very long ago that President George W. Bush came out with a public policy statement
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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