41 Articles match "2008","Florida","Foreclosures"

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National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller     What do you know about your loan officer?
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
    Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Local Market Perspective, SW Florida
    The biggest part of the downward spiral is the ever so popular foreclosure segment of our market. Now as I can't speak for all areas of the country; Southwest Florida experienced a huge growth in a very short time and was fueled by speculators thinking the rise would never stop. They can live the SW Florida dream with the rest of us and not feel that they need to go stock shelves at night or deliver pizzas just because they have a passion to teach our children or protect us I was talking with a group of teachers the other day and for the first time in a few years I didn't hear them say "We can't afford to take this position in Southwest Florida".
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
    For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA). It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. It also brings back bad memories of dealing with insurance companies and very slow claims service. Back in 1994 something called “The
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Top Metro Foreclosure Rates
    Fifteen of the cities with the top 25 metro foreclosure rates in the first half of 2007 were located in California, Florida and Ohio, according to the R ealtyTrac Midyear 2007 Metropolitan Foreclosure Report , released yesterday. California led the way with seven cities in the top 25, while Florida and Ohio both had four cities. The report ranks the foreclosure rate in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas. Stockton, Calif.,
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
    The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the first quarter of 2007. That closely mirrored the trend in MBA’s foreclosure rate, which put the percentage of loans in the foreclosure percent at the end of the first quarter, up 21 percent from the 2.04 percent reported in the fourth quarter of 2007 and up 93
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • 5 States = 55% of July Foreclosure Pie
    California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia together accounted for 55 percent of all U.S. foreclosure filings in July, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The foreclosure filings tracked in the report are default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions. California reported the most foreclosure filings of any state, with 39,013. The states foreclosure activity was actually down a half a percent from the previous month but still up 289 percent from July 2006.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Activity Up in 77 of Top 100 Metros
    RealtyTrac released its third-quarter metro foreclosure rankings today, showing that rising foreclosures are affecting many areas of the country. Saccacio said in a statement that foreclosure activity increased on a quarterly basis in 77 out of the nations 100 largest metro areas. “Although Although cities in just three states — California, Ohio and Florida — accounted for more than two-thirds of the top 25 metro foreclosure Company CEO James J. Still, there continue to be pockets of the country — most noticeably metro areas in the Carolinas, Virginia and Texas — that
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosures Thrive in Third Quarter
    With home price appreciation slowing and the inventory of unsold homes expanding, the third quarter proved to be fertile ground for sprouting foreclosures, according to RealtyTrac’s quarterly foreclosure market report . More than 300,000 new foreclosure filings were reported nationwide during the quarter, up 17 percent from the previous quarter and up 43 percent from the third quarter of 2005. That brings the year-to-date foreclosure total to more than 900,000, more than in all of 2005 and on pace to hit 1.2 million by year’s end.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
    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. homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. But for many U.S. This week, Florida-based homebuilder Tousa Inc.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • 1 Million Foreclosures and Counting
    Foreclosures filings for the year surpassed the 1 million mark in October, when 115,568 foreclosure documents were recorded nationwide, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report , released today. The report shows a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,001 U.S. households — up 3 percent from September and 42 percent from October 2005. The year-to-date foreclosure total stands at 1,029,132, up from 732,608 at the same time last year.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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