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• High Anxiety Over the $8,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit
  
  High Anxiety Over the $8,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit September 16, 2009, Wall Street Journal Builders are so eager for an extension and expansion of the popular first-time home-buyer tax credit, they’re taking out ads. The National Association of...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: foreclosures foreclosure filings foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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• Screech from "Saved by the Bell" in Foreclosure
  
  The Associated Press is reporting that actor Dustin Diamond from televisions "Saved by the Bell" is selling T-shirts to help bail his home out of foreclosure. "Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts – at $15 or $20 (autographed) each – to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee." This is different from your typical foreclosur e because it doesnt involve a lender foreclosing on a defaulted loan; it involves a landowner foreclosing on a land contract, according to the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ed McMahon Fighting Foreclosure
  
  Ed McMahon, who for decades appeared as Johnny Carson’s sidekick on “The Tonight Show,” is the latest casualty of an ever-growing foreclosure crisis that is gripping the nation. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that McMahon was $644,000 in arrears on a $4.8 The Hollywood dream home has six bedrooms, five bathrooms and is located on a hilltop and is part of a gated community called “ The Summit ,” according to the Associated Press . million loan for a home in Beverly Hills, California. The 85-year old McMahon fell and broke his neck
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
  
  The Orange County Business Journal reported Monday that Wall Street analysts are now predicting possible liquidation or bankruptcy for the once high flying subprime lender. The Mortgage Bankers Association released a response Friday calling for federal regulators to “avoid an overreaction to an evolving marketplace or current economic conditions.” The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
  
  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel posted a similar article last month. In any case, legitimate foreclosure investors willneed to find ways to overcome the stigma associated with foreclosureinvesting because of the increased attention to this problem. An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. Wall Street Journal article today reports that many buyers are already doing that in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., As the Associated Press reported Tuesday morning, this latest report by the Case-Shiller index, which tracks prices of single-family homes in 10 metropolitan areas around When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal sagely advises that the answer is "For some people, yes. 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. 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 Price Index released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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