12 Articles match "August","Increase"

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• New-Home Sales Increased 0.7% to 429,000 Rate in August
  
  New-Home Sales Increased 0.7% to 429,000 Rate in August September 25, 2009, Bloomberg News Sales of new U.S. homes climbed in August to the highest level in almost a year as builders cut prices at a record pace to compete with the foreclosures that are...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Trends first-time homebuyer foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, September 25, 2009
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• No relief from foreclosure heat in August
  
  Despite a month-over-month and year-over-year decrease in bank repossessions (REOs) in August, total foreclosure activity in August remained close to the record high set in July thanks to increasing defaults and scheduled foreclosure auctions, according...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Trends foreclosure rates foreclosure statistic
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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• Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
  
  Depending on the city, if those costs increase any more than they already have, the end result could very well be seen on the RealtyTrac website. Foreclosure Market Report for August 2006 , the city also had the third highest number of foreclosures in California with a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 745 households — 1.35 Moreover, the state ranked 11 th nationally in total number of foreclosures for August Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Don't Back Down in September
  
  RealtyTrac’s monthly foreclosure report shows 112,210 properties entering some stage of foreclosure during September, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August but an increase of more than 63 percent from September 2005. September’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 households was the third highest monthly foreclosure rate year to date, behind only the foreclosure rates reported in August and February. Foreclosure activity in September didn’t back down much from the jump reported in the previous month, RealtyTrac reported today. Colorado,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest level since early 2004, according to the National Association of Realtors . Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  percent back in August 2007 down to 2 percent last month, the Fed has decided to go back to the wait-and-see stance Chairman Ben Bernanke established when he first took over the reins of the agency back in August 2006. This move by the Fed is recognition of the fact that further increases in oil prices threaten the economy by pushing up prices in goods and services, according to the New York Times . The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Stands Fast on Rate; Little Solace for Homeowners
  
  It wasn’t long after Ben Bernanke took over the reins of the Federal Reserve from Alan Greenspan that he put a halt to the 17 consecutive upward adjustments in the federal funds rate (FFR) — the short-term interest rate banks charge each other — back in August 2006. Perhaps the rate increase won’t be as much as it might have been otherwise due to the Fed’s latest position on the economy. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep its hands-off stance, leaving the FFR at 5.25 percent.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Room Enough for a Catnap
  
  Local residents got their first glimpse of the cat family — two adults and three kittens — on August 27. A quick comparison of two zip codes in the Lake Elsinore area — 92530 and 92532 — shows a 17 percent increase in foreclosure filings in July from the previous month in both zips, while there was a 200 percent and a 138 percent increase in foreclosure filings respectively from July 2007. In this lackluster real estate market potential homebuyers have been sitting on the fence, observing from the sidelines as the number of foreclosures keeps going up and home prices keep plummeting.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Since August 2006 there has not been one month where we have seen overall price increases, as measured by the two Composites,” said David M. Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• No Place Like Home
  
  Edmiston provided an eye-opening example of how a monthly mortgage payment on a $200,000 so-called nontraditional loan taken out in August 2004 could increase from about $600 to more than $1500 when it resets three years later. As state Rep. Tom Borroughs noted this week at a housing conference here, Kansas is not on the cutting edge of innovative legislation.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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