8 Articles match "Associated","Houses","Standards"

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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. And Doug Duncan, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, told Bloomberg News that more than 100 other lenders will go out of business this year. Panic is spreading in the U.S. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors. But opponents
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median price of an existing home rose from $124,800 in 1998 to $201,100 as of January 2008. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. Still, on a yearly basis existing home sales were down almost 24 percent from February 2007, and the national median When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures. Yearning to retake the GOP-controlled White House next year, the Democrats are clamoring for the federal government to do something, anything, to contain the crisis. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Stop Home Foreclosure
  
  How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. You must also be able to close on the sale of your house within one to two months. (Note: Note: These percentages are not a hard-and-fast standard for all lenders but they are a starting point.) For example, Johnson    If you are currently in foreclosure, strongly consider selling your property as a backup plan. The object is to pay off all debt and expenses, walk away without a foreclosure or bankruptcy on your credit history and perhaps put a little cash
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. Usually you would look at the fees and charges associated with the HOPE program and think, well, yuck. If we tighten mortgage standards so that only those with great credit can buy homes we won’t have enough purchasers to clear the inventory of foreclosed properties now on-hand or Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller     We’re about to see something
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little 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. Now, in 2009, or will you 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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