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26 Articles match "2008","Foreclosures","New York"
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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. See: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess, The New York Times, Feb. 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. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Saccacio, chief executive officer at the country’s largest provider of foreclosure data and listings, RealtyTrac.com . “Instead, Hudson has deposits of $49 billion, a network of 125 branches in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and just 1,350 employees — a fraction of the workforce one would find with banks of similar size. But the real story with foreclosures is different: The fact that a loan is delinquent does not mean foreclosure No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. million homes will enter foreclosure next year. Conference of Mayors . Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home
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- 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. Several of the states with the 10 lowest appreciation rates also posted foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in the third quarter, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of 2005, down
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Celebrity Foreclosures
Rich people, it turns out, are just as vulnerable as poor folks to foreclosure. New York Post celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil today reported that Veronica Hearst, the widow and third wife of Randolph “Randy” A. Hearst, is fighting foreclosure proceedings on her 5.1 At RealtyTrac , we want to know what you acre oceanfront estate in Manalapan, just south of Palm Beach, Fla. The couple paid for $29.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures . During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. Meanwhile, Wall Street had started a new trading index to bet for or against subprime mortgages, called the ABX, which reflect the value of a pool of subprime mortgages made over a six month period. You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure "Megatrends"
Foreclosures are rising. In a presidential year, Uncle Sam and politicians nationwide are rushing to unveil new and bolder schemes to unravel the foreclosure crisis. As federal, state and local government weighs in of the rising foreclosure mess, look for new plans to halt the foreclosure train wreck. Increasingly, homeowners who put little Home prices are falling. Sales are down.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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$15.75 million pre-foreclosure purchase of Don Johnson's home
A last-minute pre-foreclosure sale last week allowed actor Don Johnsonof televisions "Miami Vice," to avoid foreclosure on his Aspen, Colo.,estate, estate, according to an article in the Aspen Daily News . "Don Johnson may have saved his Woody Creek ranch frombeing sold Wednesday at a foreclosure auction, but it was because thecelebrity unloaded his 17-acre property Monday for $15.75 million,according to records Shaw Laminar Lending Inc., which lent Johnson $10.6
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. Thats a foreclosure rate households. Heres what our CEO, James J.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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RealtyTrac VP Speaking at USFN Seminar
If you’re attending the annual 2008 USFN National Default Servicing Seminar in Texas this week, you can catch RealtyTrac Vice President of Marketing Rick Sharga speaking on the latest foreclosure legislation at a 9 a.m. rdquo; “The housing slump — accompanied by a surge in foreclosures — in the midst of a presidential election year has pushed foreclosure prevention legislation to the top of many politicians’ priority lists,” Sharga said in a statement . “The panel discussion titled “In the News: Current Issues Affecting the Default Servicing Industry.”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area. Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. Foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors According to data from the RealtyTrac database, homebuyers and investors realized average savings over the past seven months of more than 40 percent on foreclosure purchases in Ohio and average savings of more than 30 percent on foreclosure purchases in Indiana , Tennessee , Georgia and Texas .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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