9 Articles match "America","Sales"

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• America's Most Expensive Foreclosure?
  
  The widow of one of America’s richest publishing dynasties, Randolph Hearst , lost her battle to maintain the mansion under the crushing weight of an astounding $40 million in defaulting loans, according to the Palm Beach Post . Indeed, this sophisticate short sale has it all. 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
  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 ." That’s more than all the for sale by owner, resale and new homes listed on RealtyTrac in Fort Collins The rest of Money’s Top 10 list includes: 2) Naperville, Ill.; 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. Even though prices are up, home sales volume is down dramatically -- just ask the National Association of Realtors -- homeowners are not refinancing anywhere near the levels seen even just a year ago, and the number of new homes under construction is declining as is building permits. 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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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  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. 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 This weekend, as the best college basketball players square off, RealtyTrac will tip off its Sweet 16 foreclosure list. EAST REGION SEMIFINAL The dollar goes a long way in
  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). 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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• How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
  
  You could look at the Merrill sale and say, Aha! In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . One can see investors looking at delinquency and foreclosure rates, loan age and also geographic concentrations, down payment data, equity, income, credit ratings, sale terms and other factors. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller    Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie in the window?
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  In January, properties entering some stage of foreclosure in Las Vegas outnumbered the sales of new and existing homes for the first time, according to a comparison of RealtyTrac foreclosure data and sales data. Today, a third of the 300 homes are for sale and investors can now scoop up many of the vacant bank-owned properties for $450,000. In California’s 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  If a typical home has an average sale price of about $220,000 (many homes now facing foreclosure were financed several years ago with two loans, thus first loans are often significantly less than current market values), and if the average mortgage is $176,000 (80 percent of market values) then the total value of such mortgages would be $440 billion. Lenders accepting this money now would have to modify each current mortgage to a fixed rate established by Uncle Sam as well as a renewed 30-year term. "Borrowers in this scenario would be required to share future appreciation 50/50 with
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  For example you see Bank of America adopting a massive, systematic loan modification program. The estimates ranged from 25 to 40 percent from peak to trough, but all the economists thought prices could overshoot going down (as they did going up) and could be down as much as 55 percent in parts of Southern California.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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