11 Articles match "America","Properties"

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• America's Most Expensive Foreclosure?
  
  Mention the word “foreclosure” and most homebuyers and investors conjure up images of run-down and dilapidated properties located in undesirable neighborhoods. But now some of the most opulent estates are increasingly becoming available for savvy investors and homebuyers as a growing number of well-healed homeowners are defaulting on their mortgage payments and property taxes. The widow of one of America’s richest Consider Veronica Hearst’s Manalapan mansion. If opulence and grandeur is what you desire, then you might consider buying Hearst’s former Manalapan estate.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). As always, for investors interested in foreclosure property it’s a matter of doing your homework to get ideas And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
  
  Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Whether 40-year fixed-rate mortgages will help distressed homeowners who cant afford their monthly mortgage payment keep their property out of foreclosure -- its too early to tell. blessing by offering a means to lower Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  Saccacio also thanked a hard working group of employees who are dedicated to servicing the needs of those customers to assure them of the most accurate and up-to-the-minute data possible, along with the most technologically advanced tools available to make researching and investing in foreclosure properties as seamless a process as possible. This latest award comes on the heels of RealtyTrac’s selection in August as the 53rd fastest growing privately-held company in America by Inc. RealtyTrac was named to the Technology Fast 50 list for 2006 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP at an awards ceremony held Tuesday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  SW, Albuquerque, NM — Opening Bid: $83,892 SOUTH REGION SEMIFINAL With many homeowners singing the post-Katrina blues in Louisiana and Mississippi, buying a foreclosure property is a slam dunk for seasoned real estate investors. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• It Used to Be a Day Job
  
  But at the end of the day, is it something real estate investors need to concern themselves with when it comes to dealing with homeowners who are in the midst of financial crisis or the banks when buying an REO property? Maybe, if you’re still trying to flip property and utilize day laborers to help clean up an investment property. That, in my estimation, 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
  
  Speaking at the Independent Community Bankers of America Convention in Orlando, Bernanke noted that 1.5 Bernanke said he wants to institute measures that will reduce “preventable” foreclosures to stave off the erosion of property values and municipal tax bases in communities across the country. For now the inventory of foreclosed properties will grow for the foreseeable future, giving legitimate real estate investors, first-time homebuyers, and real estate professionals 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
  
  The Administration has encouraged six of the nation’s largest lenders — Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial Corp., Plus, the program is not available to borrowers who are within 30 days of the property’s foreclosure sale (in most states known as the Trustee’s Sale or Sheriff’s Sale and normally conducted on the local courthouse steps). Many homeowners who could not cure the default once it occurred, nor could sell their property 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their construction loans, mortgage payments, property taxes, auto loans and credit cards at an alarmingly fast pace, according to industry analysts, economists and real estate brokers . Brady confirmed McCabe’s statements, claiming that a growing number of high-end Hampton homes are falling into foreclosure — although the analysis of foreclosure data from RealtyTrac shows New York foreclosure
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  If a property was sold and the entire amount was not repaid, the borrower would be required to pay $500 a year until the debt was fully paid off. In effect, the pay-off system would resemble the concept approved over the summer for first-time home buyers, a system which provides a $7,500 tax credit up front that must be repaid when the property is sold." Stop fanning the fantasy of the “American Dream” of owning an outrageous Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan. Below are excerpts from
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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