28 Articles match "2008","Blog"

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• Welcome to the Foreclosure Pulse weblog!
  
  Weve just recently launched this blog, and we hope to develop this blog into a valuable and well-read part of the blogosphere. In addition, we want this blog to develop into a community where you can connect and share ideas with others interested in the foreclosures market. Posted 03-17-2006 5:19 PM by darenb Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Miami Blogger Sparks $25 Million Lawsuit
  
  Developer Tibor Hollo filed a defamation lawsuit against Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga, who claimed in his popular blog — Miami Condo Investments — that Hollo went bankrupt in the 1980s and that one of his current South Florida developments could be headed for bankruptcy, according to Inman News. “My 10, predicting on the blog that at least half of the buyers in the 635-unit Opera Tower at 1750 Bayshore Drive would default and the units would be taken over by the lender. A Miami real estate agent and blogger was sued last week by a real estate developer for $25 million, according to the Miami Herald .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Oklahoma City Foreclosure Activity
  
  Per a request from Roland in our blog post about Stockton, Calif ., foreclosures, below is a map showing foreclosure activity in Oklahoma County, Okla.. You may notice that this map is not as crowded as the Stockton map. That reflects a foreclosure rate in Oklahoma County that was below the national average for 2007, with 0.915 percent of its total households in some stage of foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bubble monitoring
  
  One of the best reads among the bubble blog genre is BubbleMarkets Inventory Tracking , which regularly uses RealtyTrac data totrack how a " property flipper in trouble "has fallen into foreclosure on several investment properties. And ofcourse I like what this blogger, ocrenter, had to say in a blog postyesterday regarding a Sacramento Bee story about exploding housinginventory. Its always fascinating to see the different ways people useRealtyTracs foreclosure data. For instance, there are a plethora ofblogs such as The Housing Bubble and Northern New Jersey Real Estate Bubble
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New Heat Maps Look Really Cool!
  
  Anyone who has checked out this blog on a regular basis should be familiar with the national heat map RealtyTrac produces every month that correlates with the release of its national data for the month. The story that ran last Friday in the Wall Street Journal’s “Developments” blog featured these new multi-colored foreclosure heat maps developed under a partnership agreement between RealtyTrac and HotPads.com . Now, a recently developed partnership has gained some national attention from the media, taking the heat map phenomenon to a whole other level. HotPads has taken RealtyTrac
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
  
  Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years. million subprime
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
  
  But many homebuilders — both publicly and privately held — will become extinct in 2008. If 2007 was the year of the extinction of subprime lenders, then 2008 could shape up to be the year that decimated U.S In future blogs, RealtyTrac will pinpoint specific developments where buyers can purchase new homes for a song. Posted 02-01-2008 11:57 AM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends , hom For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
  
  see related blog post below). Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives. Nowadays, I may have to add a side of presidential politics too!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Flying Foreclosure Photos
  
  So give us that feedback by commenting on this blog or sending us an e-mail at editor@foreclosurepulse.com . Posted 08-30-2006 12:37 PM by darenb Filed under: RealtyTrac Tools & Feature RealtyTrac integrated Microsoft Virtual Earth technology into its member website this week, allowing subscribers to view aerial and “birds-eye” photos of properties listed on the website (see sample below). This powerful technology should prove especially helpful for those searching for pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties because those properties usually don’t include a curbside photograph (something that has long been a stumbling block for buyers and investors).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Shrinking World of Government Loans
  
  In an interesting post on his excellent, informative FHA Mortgage Guide blog, author Peter Miller notes that, over a 5-year period, FHA and VA loans have basically lost half of their market share. While this may speak more to the nature of a loan market that approved virtually anyone, anywhere for any loan, anytime, it also suggests that those in the government responsible for managing programs intended to increase home ownership may not have been as proactive as they should have been over the past few years. Despite the fact that theyre not as sexy as "no doc, no talk, just walk" loans
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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