7 Articles match "2008","Long Beach","Properties"

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• Foreclosure Search: Lessons from Long Beach
  
  A few days ago I spoke to a new RealtyTrac customer who was having trouble tracking down foreclosure property in Long Beach, Calif . havent had any success in pursuing properties." So we looked up some of the properties she was interested in, calledone of the property trustees and walked away with information that Ithink will be helpful both for her and for RealtyTrac. She said something like, "Is the information on your site accurate? I
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Lessons from Long Beach: Part II
  
  As promised, here is another lesson about successfully searching andpursuing foreclosures based on a recent conversation with a customerwho was searching for properties in Long Beach, Calif. Lesson 2: Call the trustee or lender to get most recent property status After you find a property that interests you, first call the trustee (for pre-foreclosures and auctions) or the lender (forbank-owned properties) to make sure the property is still inforeclosure before you sink any more of your valuable time into pursuingthe property. Confirming the status is necessary because although RealtyTrac checksif a property is SOLD, there may be a delay before we receive thatinformation and the owner in default could also reinstate the property,meaning it is no longer in foreclosure even though it did not sell.Also, even if RealtyTrac has an auction date listed, its not uncommonfor that auction date to be postponed, something you could only findout from the trustee.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Lessons From Long Beach - Part III
  
  Heres the third and final lesson gleaned from a conversation with acustomer in Long Beach, Calif., Lesson 3: Listen carefully and speak concisely when calling the trustee With the customer listening in, I called one of the trustees listed for a pre-foreclosure property. pressed "0" and we were put through quite quickly to aperson who was able to tell us the property had been reinstated by theowner. who needed help following up onproperties she found on RealtyTrac. See Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one Long Beach, Calif ., Located in the upscale Curtis Park neighborhood of Sacramento, the property has gone through the foreclosure auction process and reportedly been purchased by Red Rock Mortgage for $388,000, a far cry from the $535,000 Richardson paid for it back in January 2007. RealtyTrac estimates the current market value of the property at $503,000. Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  LONG BEACH, Calif. — 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. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Tops PMI's Risk Index
  
  Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent chance of declining home prices through the end of 2008. Rounding out the top 10 with their scores were: Nassau-Suffolk, NY (601); Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (600); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA (597); Boston-Quincy, MA (595); Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA (595); and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (592). Members of RealtyTrac looking to invest in foreclosure properties around Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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