5 Articles match "Bank","Texas","Top"

• The Best from RealtyTrac

  MORE

• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report more than two years ago. Colorado and Georgia rounded out the top three state foreclosure rates, followed by Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Texas and New Jersey. U.S. foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). That’s more than all the for sale by owner, resale and new homes listed on RealtyTrac in Fort Collins The rest of Money’s And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• RealtyTrac VP Speaking at USFN Seminar
  
  If you’re attending the annual 2008 USFN National Default Servicing Seminar in Texas this week, you can catch RealtyTrac Vice President of Marketing Rick Sharga speaking on the latest foreclosure legislation at a 9 a.m. rdquo; “The housing slump — accompanied by a surge in foreclosures — in the midst of a presidential election year has pushed foreclosure prevention legislation to the top of many politicians’ priority lists,” Sharga said in a statement . “The panel discussion titled “In the News: Current Issues Affecting the Default Servicing Industry.”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. The property ends up in foreclosure with the bank eating the loss. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE
• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  foreclosure rate has moved higher, and it’s the second straight month new foreclosures have topped 100,000. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling or refinancing during pre-foreclosure." Georgia reported the nations highest foreclosure rate for the second month, with one new foreclosure for every 329 households. RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
  READ MORE