9 Articles match "Appreciation","Foreclosures","Ohio"

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• Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
  
  Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. Several of the states with the 10 lowest appreciation rates also posted foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in the third quarter, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. For the second consecutive quarter Michigan’s home price appreciation declined on a year-over-year basis, dropping 0.4 Not coincidentally, Michigan documented the nation’s second highest foreclosure rate in January 2007, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. LaTourette (R-Ohio) — who chaired a meeting of the U.S. The topic on the table: the high foreclosure rate in Cuyahoga County — one of the highest in the nation — and what can be done to ease the bleeding. One example — Rep. Steven C.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Top 10 Metro Foreclosure Rates
  
  Here are the 10 metroareas with the highest foreclosure rates, along with the percentage ofhouseholds in foreclosure for each area: 1. Canton, Ohio -- 0.72% 10. whichhas low unemployment and strong home price appreciation, but it couldbe that rising interest rates combined with more risky financing aretaking a toll in that area. RealtyTrac today released its first ever U.S. Metropolitan ForeclosureMarket Repor t, which ranks the nations 100 largest metro areas byforeclosure rate in the first quarter of 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Priced to Foreclose
  
  A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. homes are appreciating at the slowest quarterly rate since the firstquarter of 2004. The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year home price appreciation.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure. The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Not surprisingly, more than 115,568 properties entered some stage of foreclosure nationwide in October, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S. Debt! Last year, the average American receiving financial counseling earned $27,000 annually and had $38,500 of unsecured debt spread over eight credit cards, according the National Foundation for
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area. Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. Foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors According to data from the RealtyTrac database, homebuyers and investors realized average savings over the past seven months of more than 40 percent on foreclosure purchases in Ohio and average savings of more than 30 percent on foreclosure purchases in Indiana , Tennessee , Georgia and Texas .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  He asks a question toward the end of his post about why the Midwestseems to be getting hit unusually hard with foreclosures in spite ofthe fact that both coasts saw higher price spikes in home values and ahigher percentage of "exotic loans." Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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