7 Articles match "2008","Foreclose","Metro"

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• FDIC Selling Off Detroit Inventory
  
  In fact the agency’s head just announced this week that it has adjusted its estimate of how many of the nation’s banks are seriously in trouble of going out of business this year upward from 90 in Q1 2008 to 117 now. So it’s no wonder that it has no time to play nursemaid to a bunch of foreclosed real estate in foreclosure-laden Detroit, Mich. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market. The notable exceptions included Detroit — a longtime posterchild for the foreclosure meltdown — and Philadelphia, along with a few other Pennsylvania metro areas. On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 percent from a year ago, while its composite 20 metro areas also reported a record yearly decline of 15.8 Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices .
  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 Rate RealtyTrac’s report said six of the Top 10 metro areas with highest foreclosure rates were in California. Here are the metro areas with the highest 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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• The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
  
  Las Vegas is used as a backdrop for the story, not surprising given that the foreclosure rate in Las Vegas consistently ranks among the top 10 metro foreclosure rates, according to RealtyTrac. The article claims that "real estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have substantial damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C." The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more and more homeowners forced out of their homes by foreclosure are turning to vandalism to lash out in some tangible way in a situation where they feel powerless.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Is Eight Enough?
  
  ldquo;Forty-eight of 50 states and 95 out of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas experienced year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity in the second quarter," said RealtyTrac CEO James J. The bill also earmarks $4 billion in grants for local communities to buy up foreclosed properties that may be negatively affecting the communities. The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart). While there have been monthly fluctuations
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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