6 Articles match "2007","Michigan","Real Estate"

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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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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  Add mounting mortgage payments to the credit card debt and a gloomier picture emerges for overextended borrowers — in part because so many homeowners are now trapped by payments that are about to soar, even as the real estate market slumps. Among the hardest-hit states were California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  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. Similar to other parts of the nation’s Rust Belt, the county’s real estate market — particularly Detroit — is suffering. 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
  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. Credit-related expenses for the quarter rose from $3 billion for Q4 2007 to $3.2 However, foreclosed property expenses decreased to $170 million for the latest quarter, from $179 million in Q4 2007. 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. And as with many corporations in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
  
  Well, the American Bankruptcy Institute just released its numbers for calendar year 2007 and consumer bankruptcies were up 37.6 Of ABI’s top 10 states with the highest per capita filing rate for 2007, four of them — Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Nevada — were also some of RealtyTrac’s top 10 foreclosure states for much of the year. Whether the net result is a short sale, a walk away or going through the whole foreclosure process, it seems 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
  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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