4 Articles match "Arizona","Auctions","Michigan"

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• Exclusive Interview with Dave Webb of Hudson & Marshall
  
  As foreclosures continue to mushroom, lenders are increasingly turning to the auction block to sell foreclosure properties. In April, Foreclosure News Report will spotlight the fast-growing foreclosure auction market and cover other hot foreclosure issues. One of the experts interviewed for the Foreclosure News Report story was Dave Webb, principal of Hudson & Marshall, a major auction firm in Dallas, Texas. Webb believes now is a good time to buy foreclosure properties. Read Webb’s exclusive interview below: Is now a good time for investors to buy bank-owned
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report more than two years ago. Colorado and Georgia rounded out the top three state foreclosure rates, followed by Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Texas and New Jersey. U.S. foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
  
  State trends The four states with the highest foreclosure rates in the RealtyTrac first quarter report — Nevada, California, Arizona and Florida — were also the four states identified in the MBA report as having the most severe foreclosure problems. Both the RealtyTrac and MBA reports identified Ohio and Michigan as states where foreclosure activity decreased in the first quarter. The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia as other areas significantly affected by mortgage fraud. The report identifies the most common scam as “illegal property flipping.” The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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