6 Articles match "Auctions","New York","Real Estate"

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• Beginner investors wise to avoid auctions
  
  A recent New York Times article about foreclosure auctions reminded me why none of the experienced foreclosure investors Ive talked to recommend foreclosure auctions for people just getting started in real estate investing: "Yet while there is a tantalizing possibility of getting a deal, people who are intimately familiar with foreclosure auctions in New York — lawyers, mortgage bankers, brokers and former auction regulars — advise steering clear of them. Success is not impossible, but to even set foot in the ring you must put in hours of due diligence and overcome myriad obstacles,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
  
  The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). The latest victim of its own success is New Century Financial Inc. As a result, the lender’s stock on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol = NEW) plummeted almost 70 percent. The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began feeling the effects of those resets during the second half of 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Hold Onto Your Hat and Hat Rack
  
  The New York Times recently reported in two related stories that in some instances, homeowners who have already lost their homes to foreclosure are now faced with suffering the greatest embarrassment of all — having their personal items auctioned off. The law requires the town to store the items for a minimum of 15 days before it can auction off the personal property if no one should claim it. There’s a warm wind swirling around this country right now, and it may just blow the hat off of your head…and take along with it everything else you own as well.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states: 619 percent in Arizona; 597 percent in New York; 557 percent in California; and 464 percent in Florida. View full March report. Posted 04-15-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure "Megatrends"
  
  questioned Jack McCabe, a real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Searching for Stimulus II? In a presidential year, Uncle Sam and politicians nationwide are rushing to unveil new and bolder schemes to unravel the foreclosure crisis. As federal, state and local government weighs in of the rising foreclosure mess, look for new plans to halt the foreclosure train wreck. Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
  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. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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