10 Articles match "Blog","California","Foreclosures"

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• Foreclosures: the Coming California Crash?
  
  California foreclosure investors now have an opportunity to tap the knowledge of a 25-year real estate investing veteran who correctly predicted the last two major swings in the California real estate market and is on the verge of correctly predicting another. “Bruce Bruce Norris was dead right” about home prices in California doubling in the early 2000s after hitting bottom in 1997, said Michael Carney, Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Carney went on to say that he thinks Norris’ latest prediction, made in early 2006, that foreclosures will soar and home prices will plummet in the next few years is also likely to be correct.
  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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure. The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Not surprisingly, more than 115,568 properties entered some stage of foreclosure nationwide in October, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S. Debt! Last year, the average American receiving financial counseling earned $27,000 annually and had $38,500 of unsecured debt spread over eight credit cards, according the National Foundation for
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Lenders Asked to Clean Up Unhealthy Foreclosures
  
  Not only are foreclosures unhealthy for the economy, apparently they can be unhealthy for people as well. At least unhealthy enough that, in an unprecedented move, California State Commissioner of Financial Institutions, Michael A. Kelley, sent out an official notice last Tuesday requesting that all state licensees in the financial services industry clean up any stagnant water located around vacant properties — many of which are foreclosures. So far in 2007 four people have died from West Nile Virus — two in Kern County, one in San Joaquin County, and one in Colusa County — prompting Gov.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Stacking Up 2007 Metro Foreclosure Rates
  
  It was the usual suspects topping the 2007 MSA Foreclosure Rate Rankings released by RealtyTrac today. Detroit, Stockton and Las Vegas were the top three, each with more than 4 percent of total households in some stage of foreclosure during the year. Five other California metro areas joined Stockton in the top 20: Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 4, Sacramento at No. 5, Bakersfield at No.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
  
  At present, under the Tax Code a homeowner who loses a home to foreclosure has to pay income taxes on any portion of the mortgage debt the lender may decide to forgive. This can directly affect the homeowners’ ability, or desire for that matter, to proceed with such things as short sales and other types of workout situations that may offer them foreclosure relief, for instance. “…the Administration strongly believes this relief should be temporary to assist homeowners during the current mortgage market transition period and to avoid distorting consumer and lender decisions on new mortgage
  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. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S. quot;Although only about 2 percent of households nationwide will be in some stage of foreclosure According to the RealtyTrac U.S. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
  
  In yesterdays local NBC morning newscast, Bob Pisani, Wall Street correspondent for CNBC , called foreclosures the “hot potato of the political season.” RealtyTrac’s latest numbers released this morning show that the top five states with the highest number of foreclosure filings in July accounted for 55 percent of all foreclosure filings in the country. (see see related blog post below). No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Clash of Cultures at CAR Expo
  
  The opening session of what is billed as “Tech Tuesday” at the California Realtor Expo 2006 provided a somewhat unvarnished glimpse into how some Realtors are responding to real estate websites that are lifting the veil on home valuations and other previously hard-to-find real estate data. In the world of foreclosures , with transactions that tend to be more complex than the mainstream real estate market, a knowledgeable real estate professional could be even more valuable for potential buyers, investors and sellers. LONG BEACH, Calif. — In short, some Realtors take offense at
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 He asks a question toward the end of his post about why the Midwestseems to be getting hit unusually hard with foreclosures in spite ofthe fact that both coasts saw higher price spikes in home values and ahigher percentage of "exotic loans." Jonathans question reflects a popular p=568 568 ).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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