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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. Meanwhile, the Mortgage Bankers Association, in its quarterly snapshot of the mortgage market released today, reported that the percentage of payments that were 30 or more days past due for one-to-four unit residential properties was 4.84 Top 10 Foreclosure Total Ranked by the U.S. foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . Sales fell by more than 20 percent in Arizona, Virginia, California, Maryland and the District of Columbia. 2.1 Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most In August 2006, Steven Krystofiak, President of the Mortgage Brokers Association for Responsible Lending , testified before the Federal Reserve and said his group compared the income figures for 100 stated-income loans against borrower tax returns. Ninety percent of the stated-income loan applications showed earnings that were exaggerated by at least 5 percent. Sixty percent of the stated amounts were exaggerated
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. And you see states passing laws, like Californias SB 1137, aimed at giving homeowners a better chance of getting a loan workout rather than a foreclosure. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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