8 Articles match "April","Foreclose","May"

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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so great as to generate real concern for the oncoming hurricane season this year. In April, the U.S. The potential for damage to other homes and personal property, along with the hazardous danger of bodily harm involved, may give support The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation was granted in the form
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  Dispatches from Detroit indicate that free-market forces may be the catalyst. in March, spurred by investors taking advantage of low prices on foreclosed properties." That in turn allows lenders to start unloading foreclosure inventory, easing a heavy burden that has been weighing down the citys housing market. Different forces may be at work in Philadelphia, helping that citys foreclosure rate remain relatively low. While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
  
  Locate foreclosure properties Although essentially similar in process, for a homeowner to stop foreclosure in Houston the state laws may be slightly different for another city. By definition a short sale is literally the sale of a home for less money than is currently owed the lender on the outstanding mortgage being foreclosed on. Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
  
  The 3 percent decrease may lead some to speculate that the upward trend in foreclosure activity may be nearing an end, but as RealtyTrac CEO James J. In fact, the RealtyTrac report has shown month-to-month decreases in previous months, even during the dramatic run-up in foreclosure activity that has occurred over the past year and a half: in February 2008, November 2007, September 2007, June 2007, April 2007, and February 2007. U.S. foreclosure activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . There were 176,137 foreclosure filings in May, up 19 percent from April. Certainly not every community nationwide is seeing an increase in foreclosures, but foreclosed properties are becoming more commonplace and adding to the downward pressure on home prices A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  Good news, there may be ways to stop foreclosure. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County (a region with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation) last August calling for the creation of partnerships between community organizations and state governments as a way to stop the bleeding from an overbearing volume of foreclosure activity. In April of 2007 national civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Council of La Raza, and the Center for Responsible Lending called
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing lender. The lender also has to agree to the DIL arrangement, which may involve clearing out other liens secured by the property. But that may be better than the alternative — a costly and lengthy process that will quite likely end with the bank repossessing the property anyway. For the third month in a row U.S. foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year ago, according to the March RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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