17 Articles match "2008","Miami"

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• Miami Blogger Sparks $25 Million Lawsuit
  
  A Miami real estate agent and blogger was sued last week by a real estate developer for $25 million, according to the Miami Herald . Developer Tibor Hollo filed a defamation lawsuit against Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga, who claimed in his popular blog — Miami Condo Investments — that Hollo went bankrupt in the 1980s and that one of his current South Florida developments could be headed for bankruptcy, according to Inman News. “My My opinion is that this development is doomed,” wrote Lechuga on Jan. 10, predicting on the blog that at least half of
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  percent) and Miami (-28.3 Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. On a monthly basis, from April to May the worse decliners were Miami (-3.6 Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the
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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 at the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorders Office. "An attorney for Johnson said Friday that a portion of the sale proceedswent toward paying off the alleged default to New
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• Metro Foreclosures: California Catch-up
  
  Miami’s foreclosure activity increased 14 percent and the city reported the 11th highest metro foreclosure rate. Foreclosure activity decreased in the majority of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas in the second quarter of 2006, including Indianapolis (down 32 percent from the previous quarter), Atlanta (down 37 percent), Dallas (down 12 percent) and Denver (down 18 percent). But those four cities still documented the four highest metro foreclosure rates among the top 100 cities, according to RealtyTrac’s just released Q2 U.S.
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• Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
  
  Miami, Dallas, Indianapolis, Ft. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the local economy has been steadily losing jobs in the automotive sector, Detroit reported the highest foreclosure rate of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the country for the third quarter of 2006 as well. After two straight quarters when Indianapolis, Atlanta and Dallas led the nation in foreclosure rate, Detroit took over the top spot on the RealtyTrac Q3 2006 U.S.
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• Foreclosure Activity Backs Off 30-Month High
  
  and Miami at No. Foreclosure activity decreased 7 percent in June, backing down from a 30-month high reached in the previous month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report issued today. Despite the month-over-month decrease, however, foreclosure filings were still up 87 percent from June 2006.
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• Top Metro Foreclosure Rates
  
  Florida cities in the top 25 were Miami at No. Fifteen of the cities with the top 25 metro foreclosure rates in the first half of 2007 were located in California, Florida and Ohio, according to the R ealtyTrac Midyear 2007 Metropolitan Foreclosure Report , released yesterday. California led the way with seven cities in the top 25, while Florida and Ohio both had four cities.
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showing annual declines. The biggest decliners were Las Vegas and Miami, with 26.8 Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for
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• Foreclosure Activity Up in 77 of Top 100 Metros
  
  Cleveland; Miami; Bakersfield, Calif.; RealtyTrac released its third-quarter metro foreclosure rankings today, showing that rising foreclosures are affecting many areas of the country. Company CEO James J. Saccacio said in a statement that foreclosure activity increased on a quarterly basis in 77 out of the nations 100 largest metro areas. “Although
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