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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. Foreclosure prevention may often fit with those agendas, but it’s rarely the driving force. Posted 12-20-2006 2:32 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
  
  California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A. This sheds light on some of the most recent foreclosure statistics published by RealtyTrac (see our latest report) , which show decreasing numbers of new filings in March and April, and May numbers up only slightly. Since unemployment rates are historically a good indicator of foreclosure rates, this bodes well for California homeowners, but less well for real estate investors, first-time home buyers and real estate Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University suggest that the number of foreclosures for the state will continue to dwindle for the foreseeable future.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  The way things are going nowadays you too have about as much a chance of correctly predicting whether the nation and the state of California are either headed towards, or are already in, a recession as any of the professionals who do it for a living. This week, by contrast, the San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that prognosticators working at +News+>+Business+--+Experts+forecast+sees+no+recession&expire=&urlID=27087637&fb=Y&url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080311-9999-1n11econ.html&partnerID=621">UCLA’s Anderson Forecast don’t see the nation — or
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Fed Rate Decision is Ongoing'
  
  When I was in business school at the University of Southern California we spoke of an “ongoing concern” meaning a business enterprise of supposedly infinite duration. Does it mean we may yet be facing a recession in the future (however mild or wild it may turn out to be)? Even the National Association of Realtors, which originally thought the nation’s housing market would turn around significantly by year-end The Federal Reserve is starting to sound like a broken record. Oops!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Sales fell by more than 20 percent in Arizona, Virginia, California, Maryland and the District of Columbia. 2.1 That suggests that prices may have to fall further for sales to pick up and the overall housing market to recover. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. As a result of the losses, Fannie is revising its forecast for home price declines from a 5 to 7 percent loss nationally for all of 2008, to a 7 to 9 percent loss for the year, with significant regional differences in the rate of home price declines. And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. And you see states passing laws, like Californias SB 1137, aimed at giving homeowners a better chance of getting a loan workout rather than a foreclosure. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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