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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Exclusive Interview with Dave Webb of Hudson & Marshall
  
  In April, Foreclosure News Report will spotlight the fast-growing foreclosure auction market and cover other hot foreclosure issues. Read Webb’s exclusive interview below: Is now a good time for investors to buy bank-owned foreclosures at auction? “Bank-owned foreclosure auctions are a great way for buyers to find exceptional values on homes because lenders are anxious to unload these properties. Now homes that sold for $30,000 As foreclosures continue to mushroom, lenders are increasingly turning to the auction block to sell foreclosure properties. One of the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S. Still, nearly properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. quot;Although only about 2 percent of households nationwide will be in some stage of foreclosure this year, these properties contribute to already
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
  
  It’s not just average Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure these days. Even rich and famous athletes who earned millions of dollars during their careers can be subjected to the emotional highs and lows of losing a home. Two recent cases in point: record-setting baseball player Jose Canseco , and former NBA star Latrell Sprewell . Canseco, who first came to prominence as a right fielder with the Oakland Athletics back in the 1980s, has decided to walk away Canseco owed Washington Mutual more than $2.5 million on the 7,300 square foot mansion with four bedrooms
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
  
  The Fed’s July 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey , which covered 52 domestic banks and 21 U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks, found that 75 percent of those banks had tightened lending standards for prime loans since the previous survey, in April. About 45 percent of loan officers from domestic banks said they expected their banks to tighten lending standards on prime home loans in the second half of they year, and about 65 percent said they expected standards on nontraditional The results of a new survey released today by the Federal Reserve confirms what many people looking to buy or refinance already know — it’s hard to get approved for a loan.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  Given today’s economic climate, however, there exists a connection between foreclosures and hurricanes that poses a potentially even greater threat to the health and safety of U.S. 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 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Jackson Takes a Final Bow at HUD
  
  After that, Alphonso Jackson will probably be looking for something a little less in the public eye…at least for a while. Jackson gave notice on Monday of his intention to step down as secretary of the U.S. One of the biggest projects Jackson was working on with HUD was the modernization of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), an agency that insures home loans for approved lenders against borrower default. He gave himself a couple of weeks to clean out his desk, clear out of his office and say his final goodbyes to his staff. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showing annual declines. Adding more insult to injury, the Commerce Department came out with its May report of new residential home sales on Wednesday, revealing a 2.5 came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for at least the immediate future.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
  
  This sheds light on some of the most recent foreclosure statistics published by RealtyTrac (see our latest report) , which show decreasing numbers of new filings in March and April, and May numbers up only slightly. Since unemployment rates are historically a good indicator of foreclosure rates, this bodes well for California homeowners, but less well for real estate investors, first-time home buyers and real estate professionals who may be waiting for the long-anticipated flood of foreclosure inventory. California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  LaTourette (R-Ohio) — who chaired a meeting of the U.S. The state went from the seventh highest total of foreclosures in the nation in April to the fourth highest total in June. Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise, the number of single-family permits are declining, the rate of home price appreciation is below the national average, and the state’s median home price declined in Q1, although home sales were up 6 percent for the quarter One news report on the outcome of the meeting has witnesses placing blame squarely on easy It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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