7 Articles match "Bank Owned","January","Properties"

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• Short sales rising
  
  Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. Today, approximately 10 percent of the listed properties are short sales. That indicates lenders are getting more eager to unload properties in foreclosure, even if it means selling them for less than is owed on the mortgage. Short Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. A
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
  
  The February monthly decrease is more likely a seasonal decrease helped along by a shorter-than-average month and the fact that Januarys numbers are often padded with some pent-up foreclosure activity from the holiday season. foreclosure activity was down 6 percent from January. The more important indicator is the year-over-year increase, which has been between February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. Still, According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
  
  My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Since January, I have seen builders giving away their product just to get out from under the declining market and stop the payments on their construction loans. The property was worth $550,000 in 2005, but today sold for $308,000. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., real estate market is still declining.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
  
  The total number of properties with foreclosure filings in the RealtyTrac April report was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. housing market for several months and even years to come. Posted 06-05-2008 4:19 PM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  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 on their construction loans, mortgage payments, property taxes, auto loans and credit cards at an alarmingly fast pace, according to industry analysts, economists and real estate brokers . trolls the upper-end of the foreclosure train wreck, searching for million-dollar bank-owned listings. “The 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
  
  Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue that this chart shows that the bulk of the properties that were at risk for foreclosure have migrated through the process and are now being repossessed by the foreclosing lenders. On the other hand, some might argue that many properties are still at risk for falling into foreclosure,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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