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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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10 Signs to the Bottom of the Housing Market
The bottom of each real estate market in America won't occur with much fanfare. In fact, few people will realize that it’s even happenin
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- Monday, August 31, 2009
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10 Signs to the Bottom of the Housing Market
The bottom of each real estate market in America won't occur with much fanfare. In fact, few people will realize that it’s even happenin
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Monday, August 31, 2009
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From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering lender’s attempt to survive the subprime mortgage mess — which reportedly almost forced the firm into filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this week. Now with Countrywide’s stock weak and its value depressed, it is being widely reported that Bank of America is paying $4 billion in stock to buy out the company — in which it already had a 16 percent stake in convertible preferred stock after the bailout. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns hedge funds proves that the depth of America’s foreclosure fiasco is far from over. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month. Two Bear
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Federal Lifeline DOA for Most People
As Myers points out in her story, the new housing bill signed by President Bush earlier in the week will help a fraction of the families facing foreclosure. As for dad, in his sound bite he said they can’t lose the house and be on the street with two kids. They would not be the first people in America stuck in that situation. After listening to NBC Senior Correspondent Lisa Myers’ story on The Today Show last week, I am more convinced than ever that, as the old saying goes, people want their cake and to eat it too! In my personal opinion*, that’s not going
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years. Speaking at the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
Trenton, NJ — Opening Bid: $83,700 MIDWEST REGION SEMIFINAL With bank-owned houses cheaper than a used car in Detroit, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio, why not buy the whole block? Don’t miss next weeks tip off, when RealtyTrac announces America’s “Elite Eight” — a fast break list of the most expensive foreclosures in the nation. Posted 03-23-2007 4:38 PM by Octavio Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
percent in hopes of curtailing the housing crisis befalling this country, while still keeping a careful eye on inflationary concerns. So were lending institutions like Bank of America , which immediately lowered its prime rate. In a statement released Tuesday , the FOMC justified making the move (the first rate decrease in years after 17 consecutive upward rate “adjustments” under Alan Greenspan’s leadership, followed by more than a year Television reporters — their crystal balls in tow — were talking about it like it was a done deal before it was even announced. Analysts were
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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It Used to Be a Day Job
But is the American public ready to feel sorry for all those guys who stand on the local street corner day after day, waiting to get picked up by building contractors or homeowners for a day’s work around the house? That, in my estimation, is what America is all abou The far-reaching implications of the nation’s foreclosure crisis continue to snowball a little more every day. In its latest evolution, what started out as the lending industry selling undesirable loans to undeserving/unqualified borrowers who are now going into foreclosure by the thousands, has now filtered down to
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
Called “Project Lifeline,” it has the backing of Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Faith Schwartz, Executive Director of the Hope Now Alliance, a foreclosure prevention coalition of the public and private sectors. The Administration has encouraged six of the nation’s largest lenders — Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial Corp., Just a few short months ago President Bush stood in front of the press and swore that it was not the federal government’s job to bail out either lenders who made bad loans or speculative homebuyers who purchased more home than they could rightly afford utilizing the so-called “exotic” or “liar loans” popularized over the past few years.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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