11 Articles match "2008","Homes","October"

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• Foreclosure Activity Flat in October
  
  Foreclosure activity increased 2 percent in October, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The report showed a total of 224,451 foreclosure filings, including default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions for the month, still up 94 percent from October 2006. Default notices were down nearly 9 percent in October, indicating that some of the efforts on the part of homeowners, lenders and advocacy groups to find alternatives to foreclosure may be starting to have an impact," he said. "On U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  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 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures on the Rise in 2009
  
  Foreclosures on the Rise in 2009 October 27, 2009, USA TODAY Home foreclosures increased 22.5% third quarter 2008. in third quarter 2009 vs. This interactive shows the percentage of housing units that received at least one foreclosure filing during the...( read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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• Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
  
  In fact we have only reported foreclosures through October and the national total has already topped 1 million with two months left to report — way ahead of the 885,000 foreclosures reported for all of 2005. And the projections are that there will be much more foreclosure activity in 2007 and 2008, especially as the effects of an estimated $1 trillion in “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages start being felt. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time we take to reflect on our lives and what we can do to make the world a better place in which to live. Volunteers go out and serve meals
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
  
  The problem is, many industry analysts are starting to come around to the idea that this “correction” may not bottom out until either year’s end 2008 or sometime in 2009. Today’s action, combined with the policy action taken in September, should help forestall some of the adverse effects on the broader economy that might otherwise arise from the disruptions in financial markets and promote moderate growth over time,” the FOMC said in a statement published October 31. In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  Not surprisingly, more than 115,568 properties entered some stage of foreclosure nationwide in October, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
  
  The state hit its peak towards the end of the year, taking the nation’s top spot for September, October and November. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. Even with interest rates remaining at or near historically low levels — thanks to the Federal Reserve — Esmael Adibi, Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
  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 . million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. 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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• A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
  
  Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. The nation’s foreclosure total already broke the 1 million glass ceiling in October , and just how high foreclosure levels will go in 2007 is open to debate depending on how steep one believes the downturn will be. “When Still, owners of million-dollar properties, generally speaking, will normally have more cushion to work with in cutting Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
  
  Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. As for distressed homeowners facing foreclosure into the foreseeable future, these types of problems on the lender’s side of the transaction are probably going to make it more difficult for them to refinance or restructure their financial situation in order to save their homes. Countrywide. Citigroup.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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