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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 We sold a condo and bought a single-family home. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The scammers dontcreate the foreclosure rates, but they swoop in at the time thatsomeone is in distress," said Elizabeth Renuart, a staff attorney withthe National Consumer Law Center in Boston and the author of "DreamsForeclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans Homes ThroughEquity-Stripping Foreclosure Rescue Scams." The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
billion in economic activity in 2008, followed by Los Angeles at $8.3 Tell us what you think. Posted 11-29-2007 7:46 AM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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More Trouble for Ed McMahon
The Los Angeles Times reported today that McMahon is being sued by Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach, Calif., Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the lawsuit alleges that loan documents show McMahon had committed to paying $3,125 a month for the first five months and then paying off the remainder of the loan in one final payment of $253,125. Carrying a 15 percent interest rate, the balance due grew to $275,000, according to the Associated Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” and corporate spokesman for the American Family Publisher’s sweepstakes.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The scammers dontcreate the foreclosure rates, but they swoop in at the time thatsomeone is in distress," said Elizabeth Renuart, a staff attorney withthe National Consumer Law Center in Boston and the author of "DreamsForeclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans Homes ThroughEquity-Stripping Foreclosure Rescue Scams." The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
We’ve seen a dramatic increase in this kind of fraud,” Dan Bales, the head of fraud investigations at Mercury Insurance, told the Los Angeles Times . “People People upside-down on their house with variable-interest-rate loans, or upside-down on their cars, are pretty quick to burn their property right now.” Foreclosure arson has doubled in California from 7 homes last year to 14 homes so far in In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
The Tigers have given local fans a chance to momentarily forget about another dubious distinction: that they reside in a city with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation . The city’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 197 households was more than five times the national average and tops among the nation’s 100 largest metros. And foreclosures are just the The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
formed in the 1930s to deal with foreclosures, the new agency would assist homeowners in refinancing their subprime mortgages — many of which are now resetting at much higher interest rates, resulting, in many cases, in foreclosures, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times . It’s a presidential election year. A
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- 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). However, economic fundamentals are strong in most of the 50 MSAs studied 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. Florida had 124,721 foreclosures last year — a 2 percent increase from 2005, and a foreclosure rate of one new filing for every 59 households. Foreclosure Market Report. Add to that the fact that many of those homeowners who bought during the past two years financed their home purchase with one of those high-risk adjustable rate mortgages that For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
the city with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in February, according to RealtyTrac. percent), while Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tampa, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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