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• 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
  
  housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 Housing starts are expected to remain down in many parts of the The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
  
  Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. In California, for example, 27 percent of all mortgages were so-called “option ARMs,” where the buyer pays 1 percent interest and the underpaid amount gets added to the loan’s principal. “Our And with increased inventory levels and longer marketing times around the country, the prospect of distressed homeowners being able to bail themselves Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  Lenders use auction companies because they move inventory quickly. When banks take back foreclosed-upon homes, they sometimes hire auction houses to unload properties. Banks are increasingly selling foreclosed properties at auctions to reduce the growing inventory of REO properties. All properties are sold "as is" and prospective Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
  
  homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. Last year, the tumbling housing market claimed such large builders as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area. Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. Foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors According to data from the RealtyTrac database, homebuyers and investors realized average savings over the past seven months of more than 40 percent on foreclosure purchases in Ohio and average savings of more than 30 percent on foreclosure purchases in Indiana , Tennessee , Georgia and Texas .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Cape Coral, Fla.
  
  The agents will be sharing their insights about what is happening on the ground in their local housing market, particularly as it relates to foreclosures. Your comments, questions and feedback are welcome. Gloria Tate Raso Realty, Inc. I work with buyers in my area; new jargon and issues are making buying a home more difficult than ever before. The buyer pays a $185.00 Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of guest blog posts from members of the RealtyTrac Agent Network . It is great to see prices drop.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: South Carolina
  
  We are in an area — known as the Grand Strand — that is a tourist town, popular with second home buyers and investors. am referring to the investors who over-extended themselves with speculation, the second home buyers who bought more than they could afford, and the buyers who were talked into adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) loans so they could buy more home than they could afford. A lot of foreclosures here in South Carolina are also manufactured houses. We are seeing more and more foreclosures come onto the market at this time here in South Carolina. There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Seattle, Wash.
  
  Because of the lack of “urban sprawl” in Seattle we do not have the inventory of foreclosure homes that the rest of the country has. say this all the time to my buyers, at auction there is a huge crowd competing over six to 10 properties. It makes a transaction so much less of a nightmare, and in a few years you will have built yourself a great real estate portfolio in one of the best cities in the United States. Contact Over the past three months, my clients and I have presented nine contracts to pre-foreclosure, REO and short sale sellers. Out of those nine contracts,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. 27, as Freddie Mac, one of the largest buyers of mortgages, tightened its lending standards and said it would no longer buy high-risk home mortgages that it deems to be highly vulnerable to foreclosure. Panic is spreading in the U.S. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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