11 Articles match "Bargain","Homes","Research"

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• Foreclosure Bargains on the Beach
  
  Thus, foreclosure bargains can be had even on the coasts. What it comes down to in order to successfully purchase beachfront property is identifying good potential markets to invest in, and doing some legwork and research to analyze what it is going to take in order to put together a deal with the homeowner or lender involved in the foreclosure. Recently, RealtyTrac published its own list of potential beachfront investment communities ripe for the purchase of vacation homes on the home page of Yahoo! No one denies for a moment that some of this country’s most expensive real estate lies along its coastlines — Pacific and Atlantic.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The 7 Lost Secrets of Foreclosure Investing
  
  Being pre-qualified gives you bargaining power when it comes time to writing offers. SECRET #2: Plot a Course — Chart your course before you set sail. Your team should include people you trust, including bankers, lawyers, real estate agents, appraisers, title companies, contractors and master craftsmen (painters, carpenters, roofers, electricians and plumbers). SECRET #4: Research Your Area — Once you have assembled the crew that will join you on your real estate journey, begin researching your target market. Rapid and sweeping changes in the real estate market are altering the way investors and agents buy and sell properties — especially foreclosures.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Consumers Hit the Skids
  
  Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., state where home sales volume and home prices have been deflated while job layoffs continue to mount. This will strongly effect the state’s real estate sector, leaving a window of opportunity open for investors to come in and buy up local real estate at bargain prices compared to the overly inflated prices of the past few years. Posted 06-04-2008 3:00 PM by Analysts at the A. are reporting consumer confidence among Californians at the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
  
  Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This Based on his latest property surveys (conducted December 2006), the Director of Research and Analytics for First American CoreLogic concluded in his latest report titled, “Mortgage Payment Reset: The
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
  
  Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. Even with interest rates remaining at or near historically low levels — thanks to the Federal Reserve — Esmael Adibi, director of the Anderson Center, is concerned about the resetting of Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., And for investors and prospective home buyers shopping for foreclosure bargains on RealtyTrac it means the buyers market should continue at least through the end of 2008. Posted 06-29-2007 7:00 AM by joelc Filed under: Real Estate Trend The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. had hoped it would.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showing annual declines. In the group’s monthly release, Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said, "This month's Consumer Confidence Index is the fifth lowest reading ever. Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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