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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
and -29.3%, respectively, and all 20 cities are still in negative territory on a year-over-year basis." Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
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- Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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California Consumers Hit the Skids
for the second quarter of 2008, down from 66.3 The report cites concerns about the housing market, gasoline prices, the job market and the volatility of the stock market as key to the negativity among consumers about present and future economic conditions. This will strongly effect the state’s real estate sector, leaving a window of opportunity open for investors to come in and buy up local real estate at bargain prices compared to the overly inflated prices of the past few years. Posted Analysts at the A. Gary Anderson
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
This trend corresponds to what RealtyTrac is seeing in the national real estate market where sales volume is slowing down — heading negative in many areas of the country — price appreciation has slowed to either single-digit rates or even negative rates in a few instances, and interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages are starting to reset to higher levels. Detroit Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- October 2006 Posted 11-15-2006 12:30 PM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Tr
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
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 at least the immediate future. 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. Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. Of those 20 metros, 13
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
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. 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 mortgages — with an emphasis on those originated between
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
It’s true that foreclosures could have a negative impact on the housing market if they continue to increase at this rate.” Read the full report . Posted 01-29-2007 4:17 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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