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Don't Dump Investors
23, 2008.) Our Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, says “as our economy works through this difficult period, we will look for additional opportunities to try to avoid preventable foreclosures. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2008 Year-End Foreclosure Market Report
properties during the year, an 81 percent increase in from 2007 and a 225 percent increase from 200 A total of 3,157,806 foreclosure filings were reported on 2,330,483 U.S.
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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2008 Year-End Foreclosure Market Report
properties during the year, an 81 percent increase in from 2007 and a 225 percent increase from 200 A total of 3,157,806 foreclosure filings were reported on 2,330,483 U.S.
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year
The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 200
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Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year
The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 200
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. million homes will enter foreclosure next year. Conference of Mayors . Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home values will combine
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
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 2004 and 2005 — Cagan said, “We have to figure out who has equity and who doesn’t. In all, the table is the basis for Cagan’s
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month. That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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"Subprime" voted 2007 Word of the Year
The American Dialect Society has chosen subprime as the word of the year for 2007, reflecting a “preoccupation of the press and public for the past year with the deepening mortgage crisis.” The preoccupation with the subprime loan fallout also prompted the society to create a new category for its 18 th annual words-of-the-year vote: real estate words. Words from other The society defines subprime as “an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage or investment.” Other real estate words nominated for voting were “exploding ARM,” “liar’s loan”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Mid-Year Report: Nation Not Over the Hump Yet
We’re now mid-way through 2008 and the signs aren’t there yet to say for certain that we’re over the hump and on the way out of recession. In their June 2008 issue of the Economic & Business Review, the U.S. percent in 2008 with a mild uptick in 2009 The Fed will raise the Federal Funds Rate by 100 basis points (1 percent) in 2009 which will be mirrored in other short-term interest rates Stable As it has in times past, real estate has led this nation into recession, and it will lead us out as well — when the signs are there for a recovery. But
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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