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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 investor properties lost to foreclosure will continue to flood the market, driving down all home values. 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. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
The ability to afford a bigger mortgage also meant the ability to buy a bigger and better house. With higher home values properties could be readily sold or refinanced with little risk. With real roulette when gamblers lose the house wins. As to lender share prices and dividends, how attractive Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
Lucier, a Tampa Bay real estate investor and author of The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit . “That’s They deeded the property over to me. Then, after five days, I hired a local agent, listed the property, flipped it and made $31,400.” McManus said the borrower got out of a painful situation, Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer One pre-foreclosure expert says a new federal law will change everything, and short sales and short payoff sales will become the new trend in the marketplace.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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For Sale - REO Houses and Bank-Owned Properties - RealtyTrac
REO House and Properties For Sale Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, New Construction, Resale, and Home Auctions! Your No.1 Source for REO Property Information If youre looking for Bank-Owned REO Properties, RealtyTrac has the answer for you. Locate your perfect REO
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. million empty houses were listed Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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First-Time Buyers Get Help with CA Foreclosure Purchase
First-time homebuyers in California are getting help in purchasing their piece of the American Dream thanks to a public-private partnership and $200 million in bond funds allocated to the California Housing Finance Agency (CalFHA). Gov. The catch is buyers have to be willing to buy their dream home in one of the designated areas approved by CalFHA — such as Alameda, Contra Costa and Riverside counties — and the foreclosure property must be specifically set aside for the program and owned by one of the participating lenders — including Wells Fargo, HomeEq, CitiMortgage
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Poll: Buyers to Remain on the Fence
If the results of the latest Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance poll are any indication, prospective home buyers will be keeping their wallets closed and remain on the fence at least until the latest economic downturn blows over. A majority of those polled for the survey expressed pessimism over the nation’s housing contraction (as the Federal Reserve calls it) enough to not consider buying a home anytime soon. And that could be years down the road. Other survey results included: • A quarter of the 769 homeowners included in the random sample of 1,002 adults surveyed
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Illinois Housing Law Draws 2nd Suit
The suits — filed by eight consumers and the real estate community — seek to halt the implementation of Illinois House Bill 4050, which took effect September 1. "It's a discriminatory law," said Julie Santos, a Chicago Realtor and co-chair of the Coalition to Rescind HB 4050, a group formed from several community organizations who are collecting signatures in an attempt to repeal the law. "If quot; The mortgage counseling law is generating a rising chorus of critics — from homeowners, lenders, realtors, investors, consumer rights advocates, title companies and others
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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.
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- 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 Still, owners of million-dollar properties, generally speaking, will normally have more cushion to work with in cutting prices and staying out of 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Betting Everything on the House: 3 Risky Loans to Avoid
Falling prices, sluggish sales and risky loans that let borrowers pile up debt faster than they can pay it off could put more homeowners out of their houses this year than at any other time this decade. The danger with ARMs is that the risk of readjusting upward is often too great to justify the minimal savings — especially if a borrower plans to hold onto the property for at least a couple years. Yet many homeowners — particularly in California, Florida and Colorado — are still purchasing or refinancing their mortgages with “exotic” loans that may keep their monthly payments low now, but when these gimmicky loans “reset” upward borrowers could lose their homes if they haven’t planned for an increased monthly mortgage payment.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How to Receive a Free Mortgage Loan Quote at RealtyTrac
How to Receive a Free Mortgage Loan Quote Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Home financing is... a monumental decision that should not be taken lightly. Receive a Free Home Financing Quote But with all the options for mortgage loans available today, and with so
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Local Market Perspective, Seattle, Wash.
Here are some things to keep in mind when considering a distressed property purchase: Foreclosures are the most problem prone and strenuous type for real estate purchase. You never get a perfect house. You must be willing to put in the time and money to create your perfect house. You get price per-square-foot. You must have capital to purchase a distressed property.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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