26 Articles match "2008","Foreclosures","Michigan"

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July Foreclosure Report
foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . This shift in percentages shows that a higher proportion of properties that enter the forecosure process are ending up repossessed by lenders. Posted 08-14-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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ARM'd and Dangerous?
He asks a question toward the end of his post about why the Midwestseems to be getting hit unusually hard with foreclosures in spite ofthe fact that both coasts saw higher price spikes in home values and ahigher percentage of "exotic loans." Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
    Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. Since January 2006 Michigan has ranked in RealtyTrac’s top 10 states with the greatest foreclosure activity in the nation, most of that time maintaining a position in the top five. Lights! Camera!
    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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  • Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
    Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. Michigan home prices declined 0.6 The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of 2005, down from a 10.06
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Make Food, Not Foreclosures
    A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. allow it to garden vacant lots from the thousands of foreclosures in the county’s inventory and allow its volunteers to plow and plant them in order to grow fruits and vegetables for needy locals. Just like it was in 2007, Wayne County has been a hotbed of foreclosure activity in Michigan so far in 2008. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that Wayne County, Mich., In fact it’s had one of the highest county foreclosure
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
    New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month. That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households.
    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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  • Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
    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. Foreclosure Market Report , released yesterday. The report marks the first time that RealtyTrac has included a count of unique property addresses in some stage of foreclosure. But whether you count by total foreclosure filings or number of properties affected by foreclosure, foreclosure activity is up more than 55 percent from the first half of 2006. “The The addition of this (property count) metric to our
    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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  • Foreclosures Don't Back Down in September
    Foreclosure activity in September didn’t back down much from the jump reported in the previous month, RealtyTrac reported today. RealtyTrac’s monthly foreclosure report shows 112,210 properties entering some stage of foreclosure during September, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August but an increase of more than 63 percent from September 2005. September’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 households Colorado, Nevada and Michigan posted the highest state foreclosure rates, and California reported the most foreclosure activity of any state in terms of sheer numbers.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
    foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first quarter of 2006, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure U.S. Nevada reported the highest state foreclosure rate during the quarter, with one foreclosure filing for every 75
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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