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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. 23, 2008.) Our Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, says “as our economy works through this difficult period, we will look for additional opportunities to try to avoid preventable foreclosures. Because investor properties lost to foreclosure will continue to flood the market, driving down all home values. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
But that’s about to change because registering mortgage loan officers is now the law of the land. 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. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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
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- 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Screech from "Saved by the Bell" in Foreclosure
The Associated Press is reporting that actor Dustin Diamond from televisions "Saved by the Bell" is selling T-shirts to help bail his home out of foreclosure. "Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts – at $15 or $20 (autographed) each – to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee." This is different from your typical foreclosur e because it doesnt involve a lender foreclosing on a defaulted loan; it involves a landowner foreclosing on a land contract, according to the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
They could have added a healthy foreclosure market as well. According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). 2) Sugar Land, Texas; 4) Columbia and Endicott City, Md.; Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." And the winner is . . .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. The topic on the table: the high foreclosure rate in Cuyahoga County — one of the highest in the nation — and what can be done to ease the bleeding. And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. One example — Rep. Steven C.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F. The assessors office appraised the land for tax valuation at 1.3 It appears that foreclosure auctions arent an uncommon occurrence in Hull. Thats a relatively high number of foreclosures for a town with a population of just 11,050. A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s median home price next year from a projected median price of $561,000 for 2006, down to a projected median of $550,000 in 2007 — a stark contrast to a year ago when most forecasters were predicting a soft landing and few were expecting prices to fall and sales to plunge. LONG BEACH, Calif. — At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Gentle Ben Says the "R" Word...Finally!
The foreclosure spigot is wide open as it was back then, with no end in sight of the flow drying up anytime soon. Labor Department announced the loss of 80,000 jobs in March 2008, taking the nation’s unemployment rate from 4.8 Gentle Ben was hoping that lowering interest rates would make for a soft and “gentle” landing — which it hasn’t. Gentle Ben Bernanke has been careful not to ruffle any feathers on Capitol Hill since assuming his role as the chief caretaker of the U.S. economy. But during his first day of testimony before Sen.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
Whether the on-coming turbulence translates into more foreclosure activity at the national level is uncertain. Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a year-over-year basis as the economy heads for a soft landing. But while the economy’s air traffic controllers are first trying to chart new flight plans, the nation’s foreclosure activity is flying high — up 53 percent on a The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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