29 Articles match "2008","Auctions","May"

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• Foreclosure Downpour Continues in May
  
  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. REOs were up 35 percent from the previous month and 158 percent from May 2007. Default notices increased 1 percent from the previous month and were up 35 percent year over year, while auction notices decreased 3 percent from the previous month but were still up Foreclosure Market Report released today. The report showed one in every 483 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
  
  Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic in the press release announcing the numbers. "It quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but the numbers in the Pacific, East and West North Central Divisions may be good signs," said OFHEO Director James B. Lockhart in the release. Nationwide, the OFHEO report
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FDIC Selling Off Detroit Inventory
  
  In fact the agency’s head just announced this week that it has adjusted its estimate of how many of the nation’s banks are seriously in trouble of going out of business this year upward from 90 in Q1 2008 to 117 now. King Auction Company of Gadsden, Ala., to auction off 83 properties ranging in values from as low as $2,500 up to a The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
  
  The 3 percent decrease may lead some to speculate that the upward trend in foreclosure activity may be nearing an end, but as RealtyTrac CEO James J. 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 activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Lessons from Long Beach: Part II
  
  Lesson 2: Call the trustee or lender to get most recent property status After you find a property that interests you, first call the trustee (for pre-foreclosures and auctions) or the lender (forbank-owned properties) to make sure the property is still inforeclosure before you sink any more of your valuable time into pursuingthe property. Confirming the status is necessary because although RealtyTrac checksif a property is SOLD, there may be a delay before we receive thatinformation and the owner in default could also reinstate the property,meaning it is no longer in 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. Ground was broken on the first “farm” in May. The properties where the farms are located are left available for sale, but in the meantime the properties are being productive and cared for by group volunteers. Posted 06-11-2008 4:30 PM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Auction A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Looking to develop property? Try foreclosures.
  
  That includes all kinds of commercial property and unfinished developments -- like one in San Antonio that sold at foreclosure auction Tuesday for $4.77 This property was originally listed on RealtyTrac in May with an auction date in June. It was posted again on RealtyTrac in July with its rescheduled auction date of Aug. Although most of the foreclosure properties listed on RealtyTrac are single family homes, any type of property can fall into foreclosure. million, according to the San Antonio Express-News : A creditor foreclosed Tuesday on a half-completed project
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Oklahoma City Foreclosure Activity
  
  You may notice that this map is not as crowded as the Stockton map. The countys foreclosure rate was third highest among Oklahoma counties for the year despite a 19 percent year-over-year decrease in foreclosure activity. Search Oklahoma County foreclosures. Posted 02-02-2008 9:17 PM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trend Per a request from Roland in our blog post about Stockton, Calif ., foreclosures, below is a map showing foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market. Dispatches from Detroit indicate that free-market forces may be the catalyst. On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  Located in the upscale Curtis Park neighborhood of Sacramento, the property has gone through the foreclosure auction process and reportedly been purchased by Red Rock Mortgage for $388,000, a far cry from the $535,000 Richardson paid for it back in January 2007. 14, 2007 for $18,356, followed by a Notice of Trustees Sale being recorded on March 19, 2008. Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures. But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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