11 Articles match "2008","Homes","Nevada"

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• Priced to Foreclose
  
  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. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. homes are appreciating at the slowest quarterly rate since the firstquarter of 2004. The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year home price appreciation.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Burning Down the House
  
  Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles like Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. But in Michigan, where foreclosures are widespread and a hot market for real estate investors, people are burning down the homes to avoid foreclosure . . . Last month, a Michigan homeowner in foreclosure was arrested for allegedly setting her three-year old Grand Rapids home on fire to collect the For many real estate investors, the foreclosure market is smoking. literally!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
  
  And for struggling homeowners it often represents what they think is the last stand they can take before losing their home to foreclosure. The latest figures ratify trends that began last year, depicting households under growing stress from heavy consumer debts, now in homes they can’t afford and can’t sell,” said ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano, who expects consumer bankruptcies for 2008 to top 1 million, according to a Reuters The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache. In this, the legal sense for the abbreviation,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac, said a jump in foreclosures at a time of year that traditionally is the busiest for home sales means the slide in prices probably isn't over. “Such strong activity in the midst of the typical spring buying season could foreshadow even higher foreclosure levels later in the year,” said Saccacio. “Certainly 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.” A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  Still, nearly a quarter million properties in one month can have a significant impact on a housing market that is registering about 5 million existing home sales for the entire year . "Although quot;Although only about 2 percent of households nationwide will be in some stage of foreclosure this year, these properties contribute to already bloated inventories of homes for sale, and put downward pressure on home values," said James J. According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . At the same time, Nevada sales plunged 36 percent, while Florida posted a decline of 31 percent. million Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia as other areas significantly affected by mortgage fraud. The report identifies the most common scam as “illegal property flipping.” If not caught, the flipper pockets the profit produced by the artificially inflated sales price (see diagram below from FBI report). The report goes on to pinpoint “foreclosure-rescue” scams as an emerging form of fraud that takes advantage of the growing number of homeowners in default. “The perpetrators convince homeowners
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  The study argues that subprime foreclosures will heavily impact the overall housing market because subprime loans now make up a quarter of all home loans. It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  That will buy you a two-story home with three bedrooms and one bath. Phoenix, AZ — Opening Bid: $28,155 2) Nevada — 1685 Alamo St., Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff. This weekend, as the best college basketball players square off, RealtyTrac will tip off its Sweet 16 foreclosure list.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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