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• Digital Real Estate Data Means "OPEN HOUSE" 24/7
  
  The Internet is rapidly and radically transforming the way people buy and sell homes. An avalanche of information now available on the World Wide Web is shifting the balance of power in the real estate industry and giving homebuyers and sellers more control over the deal than ever before — and changing the nature of real estate forever. The Internet — and a new wave of technologically savvy Web-based real estate firms like RealtyTrac — is leveling the playing field Ten years ago, only a fraction of homebuyers and sellers used the Internet. Today,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
  
  How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. Almost anyone can qualify to buy a home owned by the U.S. HUD now has become the owner of the real estate. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... Department of Housing
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The 7 Lost Secrets of Foreclosure Investing
  
  Rapid and sweeping changes in the real estate market are altering the way investors and agents buy and sell properties — especially foreclosures. Increasingly, real estate investors are relying on the Internet to locate, track and ultimately buy and sell real estate. But real estate investing, like sailing a ship in the open sea, is a science of proved principles and methods. Indeed, navigating the uncharted waters of the foreclosure process can be a perilous journey. Therefore, RealtyTrac has compiled The 7 Lost Secrets
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, could not be more clear: He suggests that the government should develop a federal program to buy out mortgages from lenders, just as it did during the Depression — to “refinance only owner-occupied residences. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
  
  A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. The assessors office appraised the land for tax valuation at 1.3 Any RealtyTrac subscribers who attended this auction took advantage of a good bargain-buying opportunity. Posted 04-05-2006 2:17 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions , Foreclosure Trend Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. 28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FHA Program Linked to High Colorado Foreclosure Rate
  
  Nearly 6,000 FHA loans have wound up in foreclosure in Colorado in the past two years, and during that time the program allowed more than 25 percent of FHA buyers to use gifts as down payments.” The article recounts several stories of homeowners who paid just a few hundred dollars to buy their home, using a loophole in the program to obtain the 3 percent required down payment from the sellers — by way of a nonprofit agency. The purchase price of the home was raised to cover the “gift” shelled out by the seller, and appraisals were fudged to allow the buyer to take out a loan that covered
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Stop Home Foreclosure
  
  The "as is” appraised value and the sale price should be least 70 percent to 80 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the home. The house can then be sold for a minimum of $126,000 (which is 70 percent of the appraised value), although selling the house for $180,000 would be more favorable. It involves comparing your house to houses with the following characteristics: Similar square footage, number of bedrooms/bathrooms Similar features How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. Johnson    If you
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  What do you think? Posted 09-29-2008 1:50 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  We need to put an end to fly-by-night mortgage brokers peddling loans to unqualified applicants based on inflated appraisals.'” Bush and other GOP leaders have rejected Democratic calls for a federal bailout in response to the housing crisis. “It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford,” said Bush last week, announcing a new package of measures aimed at alleviating the impact of the subprime crisis on homeowners. “The With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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