20 Articles match "2008","Florida","Houses"

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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 extremes,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective, SW Florida
  
  This was not the case over the past couple of years and I think that we as a community missed out on several young teachers that could have made major differences in our children's lives if the only could afford the housing at the time. 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. 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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• Burning Down the House
  
  Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles like Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. At RealtyTrac , we’ll keep you informed of these and other developments. Posted 10-04-2007 2:51 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , arson Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Capitalizing on a Cooling Market
  
  When the South Florida housing market entered into a nosedive last year, Harry Andrade saw an opportunit
  RealtyTrac Article Library - Monday, August 4, 2008
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• Capitalizing on a Cooling Market
  
  When the South Florida housing market entered into a nosedive last year, Harry Andrade saw an opportunit
  RealtyTrac Article Library - Monday, August 4, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. The biggest declines were in Florida-Sarasota-Bradenton (down 18 percent), Palm Bay-Melbourne (17 percent) and Cape Coral-Fort Myers (12 percent). At the same time, Nevada sales Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Betting Everything on the House: 3 Risky Loans to Avoid
  
  Falling prices, sluggish sales and risky loans that let borrowers pile up debt faster than they can pay it off could put more homeowners out of their houses this year than at any other time this decade. Yet many homeowners — particularly in California, Florida and Colorado — are still purchasing or refinancing their mortgages with “exotic” loans that may keep their monthly payments low now, but when these gimmicky loans “reset” upward borrowers could lose their homes if they haven’t planned for an increased monthly mortgage payment. While these loans certainly can be used for good, too often consumers don’t fully understand the risks involved.
  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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• 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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• 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. percent reported in the first quarter of 2007. The trend lines are even closer when looking at the RealtyTrac first quarter foreclosure rate (0.515 percent of total housing units with a foreclosure filing during the quarter), which was up 21 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 — exactly the same percentage increase as the MBA foreclosure rate — and up 109 percent from the first quarter of 2007. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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