7 Articles match "2007","New York","Sales"

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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
  
  The latest victim of its own success is New Century Financial Inc. which just last month was boasting an increase in loan production for January 2007 over numbers reported for the same month a year earlier. As a result, the lender’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol = NEW) plummeted almost 70 percent. The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 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." percent decrease 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
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• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  Sales are down. 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, Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• 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 when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. The huge problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were supposed to be resolved with new management and revamped accounting, but no resolution could revolve a basic issue: Private mortgage buyers are always at a disadvantage when competing against Fannie Mae
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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