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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions. The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
  
  How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... Almost anyone can qualify to buy a home owned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (a HUD home) so long
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Million Dollar Homes in Foreclosure
  
  Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not just run-down homes in poor neighborhoods that are vulnerable to foreclosure. RealtyTrac’s national foreclosure database featured a number of million-dollar homes in some stage of foreclosure last month, including the homes pictured below. For home buyers at the more expensive end of the real estate market, these types of properties can represent good investment opportunities. (Note: U.S. foreclosures are up from last year as higher interest rates force more homeowners into default and softening housing prices give defaulted
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
  
  Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic in the press release announcing the numbers. "It quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but the numbers in the Pacific, East and West North Central Divisions may be good signs," said OFHEO Director James B. Lockhart in the release. Nationwide,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
  
  A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. 28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F. Kennedy’s grandfather sold at auction at a steep discount Tuesday for the price of $950,000. Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. The home had been fraudulently purchased by Jamie Edelkind who was sentenced for 5 years in jail.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. In a lot of the bubble markets — like Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Orange County and the Inland Empire in California — we are going to see an increase in the number of high-end foreclosures in relatively
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  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. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Flat in October
  
  The report showed a total of 224,451 foreclosure filings, including default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions for the month, still up 94 percent from October 2006. Saccacion noted that while overall foreclosure activity was basically flat, looking more closely at the numbers showed a more complex picture. “Default On the other hand, bank repossessions were up nearly 35 percent, evidence U.S. Foreclosure activity increased 2 percent in October, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Checklist for Buying a Bank-Owned REO Property - RealtyTrac
  
  With the number of bank-owned foreclosures rising nationwide, there has never been a better time to purchase real estate owned by banks. REO Buying Checklist: Inspect the Property, Do a Title Search, Negotiate Payments and Rates, Evaluate the Offer, and Financing and Credit. Investors and homebuyers can purchase a foreclosure property in the first phase of default — before a foreclosure auction takes place. CHECKLIST: For Buying a Bank-Owned REO Property Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Are you a real estate investor or homebuyer looking to purchase a bank-owned property?
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Mapping the Foreclosure Marketplace
  
  We just rolled out the next phase, featuring apowerful and flexible marketplace map for properties listed on RealtyTrac — including pre-foreclosures, auctions, bank-owned homes, for sale by owner homesand resale homes. Along with a road map, satellite view and birds-eye view ofthe subject property and neighborhood, this mapping application identifies andprovides a brief description of other properties in the area that are listed onRealtyTrac. This should be helpful for getting a sense of the local marketconditions — based on factors such as number of foreclosures and asking
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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