12 Articles match "2008","California","Foreclose"

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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  CNNMoney reported last Tuesday that Fannie’s CEO Daniel Mudd is optimistic overall about the company’s future, but sees more challenges lying ahead for the rest of 2008 and possibly beyond. “As As a result of the losses, Fannie is revising its forecast for home price declines from a 5 to 7 percent loss nationally for all of 2008, to a 7 to 9 percent loss for the year, with significant regional differences in the rate of home price declines. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
  
  The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. Edwards had to deflect some controversy last week as it was revealed that the former North Carolina senator reportedly has invested $16 million in a hedge fund involving subprime lenders that are presently foreclosing No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lenders Asked to Clean Up Unhealthy Foreclosures
  
  At least unhealthy enough that, in an unprecedented move, California State Commissioner of Financial Institutions, Michael A. One of the downsides of taking back foreclosed properties for the lender is the obligation and cost associated with managing those REOs — some of which are bound to be vacant for a while, especially with the extended time it is currently taking to sell real estate in the Golden State. Although West Nile Virus in particular may Not only are foreclosures unhealthy for the economy, apparently they can be unhealthy for people as well. Kelley, sent out an official
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Buying Foreclosures at the Auction: Make a Killing or Get Killed
  
  “Buying foreclosed real estate at an auction is like having a license to steal,” says Larry Blachman , a Realtor who specializes in foreclosures and author of Buying Foreclosures at a Trustee’s Sale. But buying foreclosed homes at an auction is also probably the most dangerous way to purchase real estate — unless you know how the process works. “If If you know the game, But successfully buying foreclosed properties off the auction block isnt that easy. It requires knowledge, planning, preparation, patience and perseverance. Before taking the plunge, however, spend
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  Certainly not every community nationwide is seeing an increase in foreclosures, but foreclosed properties are becoming more commonplace and adding to the downward pressure on home prices in many areas.” Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the number of foreclosure filings, California topped the list, with 39,659 in May, and Florida was number two, with 21,704, according to RealtyTrac’s report. A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing lender. The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states: 619 percent in Arizona; 597 percent in New York; 557 percent in California; and 464 percent in Florida. Anyone have ideas? For the third month in a row U.S. foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. Absent from the studys executive summary and proposed solutions are any mention of the borrower’s role in preventing foreclosed subprime loans. A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Jackson Takes a Final Bow at HUD
  
  This will be a good thing in places like Southern California, for example. These “HUD homes,” like any homes that go back to a lender who forecloses, are a good potential pool of resources for investors and wannabe homebuyers looking to purchase bargain real estate. Posted 04-02-2008 9:00 AM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend He gave himself a couple of weeks to clean out his desk, clear out of his office and say his final goodbyes to his staff. After that, Alphonso Jackson
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• Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
  
  It is a crime thatconsumer advocates fear could become increasingly common — especiallyin Southern California, where many homeowners have stretched themselvesto their financial limits to afford the regions record high housingprices. "The That transaction should include…A) Cash wiring instructions to the foreclosing bank (often by Western Union) B) A three-day right of recession, and a share purchase agreement, C) verifiable information of the person purchasing the property, including personal and financial references.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 Often a bellweather of the real estate market, California willprobably be the state to watch as all of this unfolds, given the sheervolume of the market, the sky-high housing prices and the number ofnon-traditional loans. p=568 568 ).
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