28 Articles match "2008","Florida","State"

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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
  
  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 while we sleep. 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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• 5 States = 55% of July Foreclosure Pie
  
  California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia together accounted for 55 percent of all U.S. 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. foreclosure filings in July, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
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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. State trends The four states with the highest foreclosure rates in the RealtyTrac first quarter report — Nevada, California, Arizona and Florida — were also the four states identified in the MBA report as having the most severe foreclosure problems. Those four states accounted for 47 percent 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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• 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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• Foreclosure Activity Up in 77 of Top 100 Metros
  
  Although cities in just three states — California, Ohio and Florida — accounted for more than two-thirds of the top 25 metro foreclosure rates, increasing foreclosure activity was not limited to just a few hot spots," Saccacio said. "Still, California cities accounted for seven of the top 25 metro foreclosure rates, while Florida and Ohio each accounted for five of the top 25 spots. RealtyTrac released its third-quarter metro foreclosure rankings today, showing that rising foreclosures are affecting many areas of the country. Company CEO James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Priced to Foreclose
  
  The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year home price appreciation. Many of the states near thebottom of that list -- namely Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Texas and Georgia -- also appeared among the top 10 on RealtyTracs list of state foreclosure rates in the first quarter. While these states show that sluggish home price appreciation andabove-average foreclosure rates are certainly linked in many A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
  
  The similarity between the trends revealed by the two different counts did not end at the state level. Both counts showed the same six states — Nevada, Colorado, California, Michigan, Florida and Ohio — with the highest per household foreclosure activity. And the same five states — California, Florida, Texas, Ohio and Michigan — documented both the highest number of foreclosure filings and the highest number of unique properties in some stage of foreclosure. More than 925,000 foreclosure filings were reported on more than 573,000 properties in the first half of 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Midyear 2007 U.S.
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• 2006 Foreclosure Filings Surpass 1.2 Million
  
  Colorado documented the nation’s highest state foreclosure rate, with total foreclosure filings representing 3 percent of the state’s households. Georgia and Nevada posted the second and third highest state foreclosure rates. Texas reported 156,876 foreclosure filings during the year, the most of any state and nearly 13 percent of the national total. More than 1.2 million foreclosure filings were reported nationwide during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005 and a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 92 households, according to the RealtyTrac 2006 U.S.
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