9 Articles match "2007","New York","Properties"

• The Best from RealtyTrac

  MORE

• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing lender. The lender also has to agree to the DIL arrangement, which may involve clearing out other liens secured by the property. But that may be better than the alternative — a costly and lengthy process that will quite likely end with the bank repossessing the property anyway. For the third month in a row U.S. foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year ago, according to the March RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Celebrity Foreclosures
  
  Rich people, it turns out, are just as vulnerable as poor folks to foreclosure. New York Post celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil today reported that Veronica Hearst, the widow and third wife of Randolph “Randy” A. acre parcel of the property to RGF Holding Corp. In March 2007, the Hearst mansion — known locally as the Villa Hearst, is fighting foreclosure proceedings on her 5.1 acre oceanfront estate in Manalapan, just south of Palm Beach, Fla.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• 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. Meanwhile, Wall Street had started a new trading index to bet for or against subprime mortgages, called the ABX, which reflect the value of a pool of subprime mortgages made over a six month period. As the more 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
  READ MORE
• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 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. 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 . In the movie,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  2007). percent during the first quarter of 2008, the same rate of increase as tracked for the fourth quarter 2007. economy — no matter how slight it is — the New York Times is reporting that the current situation does not fit into the classic definition of a recession, which is a "significant decline in economic activity spread acorss the economy, lasting more than a few months." 2008 is definitely One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• 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 construction
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
  READ MORE
• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  In a presidential year, Uncle Sam and politicians nationwide are rushing to unveil new and bolder schemes to unravel the foreclosure crisis. As federal, state and local government weighs in of the rising foreclosure mess, look for new plans to halt the foreclosure train wreck. Increasingly, homeowners who put little or no money down are walking away from their homes, mailing their keys — jingle mail — to lenders who gave them toxic loans, Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Don't Dump Investors
  
  See: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess, The New York Times, Feb. Introducing the Hope Now program in 2007, President Bush said “weve got a role, the government has got a role to play — but it is limited. Because investor properties lost to foreclosure will continue to flood the market, driving down all home values. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
  READ MORE
• No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
  
  not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. Hudson has deposits of $49 billion, a network of 125 branches in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and just 1,350 employees — a fraction of the workforce one would find with banks of similar size. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
  READ MORE