17 Articles match "2007","January","Real Estate"

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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Introducing the Hope Now program in 2007, President Bush said “weve got a role, Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
One such law is Illinois Senate Bill 2349 , which passed back in June and is scheduled to become effective January 1, 2007. That will leave defaulted homeowners with fewer options to avoid foreclosure, let alone recoup any equity they might have in their home. Chicago Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- Sept 2006 Posted 11-13-2006 2:08 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
    Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Downpour Continues in May
    households received a foreclosure filing during the month, the highest monthly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005. REOs were up 35 percent from the previous month and 158 percent from May 2007. It's apparent from the report that a high inventory of foreclosures will continue to saddle the real estate market. Foreclosure activity continued its upward climb in May, increasing on a year-over-year basis for the 29th consecutive month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
    Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the first quarter of 2007. percent reported in the fourth quarter of 2007 and up 93 percent from the 1.28 percent reported in the first quarter of 2007. The trend lines are even closer The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. That closely mirrored the trend in MBA’s foreclosure rate, which put the
    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. The February monthly decrease is more likely a seasonal decrease helped along by a shorter-than-average month and the fact that Januarys numbers are often padded with some pent-up foreclosure activity from the holiday season. That premise is supported by looking 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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  • Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
    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. ldquo;The overall real estate market continued to slide in May, with the 10-City and 20-City Composites declining by 1.0 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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  • Don't Dump Investors
    It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Introducing the Hope Now program in 2007, President Bush said “weve got a role, Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
    The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). which just last month was boasting an increase in loan production for January 2007 over numbers reported for the same month a year earlier. More shakeout is likely yet to come from this story as subprime lenders fall into an abyss of their own making, leaving legitimate lenders The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
    foreclosure activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. In fact, the RealtyTrac report has shown month-to-month decreases in previous months, even during the dramatic run-up in foreclosure activity that has occurred over the past year and a half: in February 2008, November 2007, September 2007, June 2007, April 2007, and February 2007. U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
    When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
    real estate market is still declining. percent from May 2007. percent from May 2007. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. Since January, I have seen builders giving away their product just to get out from under the declining market and stop the payments on their construction loans. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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