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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. Earlier in the year, there was a lot of discussion about a “soft landing” for the residential real estate market. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
  
  percent as unemployment rises over the next several quarters and inflation continues its flight pattern above the nation’s comfort level “as the housing market continues to deteriorate.” Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a year-over-year basis as the economy heads for a soft landing. The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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• Fed Pauses to Pass the Popcorn Around
  
  The bond market — which called for the Fed to take a breather from making further adjustments — went unchanged for the day, and the real estate industry — which believes the market is in the midst of a major period of correction and headed for a soft landing — breathed a momentary sigh of relief. The problem is, in Tuesday’s press release the Fed noted the slowing growth rate of the national economy, directly commenting on “the gradual cooling of the housing market and the lagged effects of increases in interest rates and energy prices.” Alan Greenspan started directing this movie more than two years ago when he made the first of 17 consecutive edits (so-called “adjustments”) to interest rates, raising them 25 basis points each.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Seattle, Wash.
  
  Here are some things to keep in mind when investing in the Seattle market: Land is an extremely limited resource in this city. 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 Nova Ukariha Shank or Over the past three months, my clients and I have presented nine contracts to pre-foreclosure, REO and short sale sellers. Out of those
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. Economists believe there are four basic sources of wealth: land, labor, capital and entrepreneurial ability. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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