9 Articles match "California","Los Angeles"

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• California Home Sales and Prices Inch Up
  
  California Home Sales and Prices Inch Up October 16, 2009, Los Angeles Times California's housing market showed more signs of recovery in September, as the median sales price rose nearly 1 percent from August, to $251,000, a real estate research firm...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: foreclosure rates defaults foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, October 16, 2009
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• Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes
  
  Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes The Los Angeles Times The backlog of California homes in default, but not yet repossessed, keeps growing. At some point, many of these properties will be repossessed and put back on the market. Until then...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Thursday, August 13, 2009
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• Feared flood of foreclosures in California may be averted
  
  Feared flood of foreclosures in California may be averted Los Angeles Times Signs are emerging that a much-feared escalation of California home foreclosures may not happen, as banks respond to government pressure and scale back their repossessions of...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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• California Tops PMI's Risk Index
  
  Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Rounding out the top 10 with their scores were: Nassau-Suffolk, NY (601); Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (600); Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA (597); Boston-Quincy, MA (595); Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA (595); and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (592). Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Buyers Come Out in Droves For LA Auction
  
  But in the end they were all there for the same purpose — a chance to purchase real estate in Southern California — Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties in particular — at a “bargain” price. REDC) drew an estimated 1,800 potential homebuyers and investors to the Los Angeles Convention Center recently in the sort of frenzied buying environment not seen since the boom days of foreclosures of the early 1990s. Some were dressed for business. Others were dressed like they were out for a weekend at the mall.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
  
  An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. It is a crime thatconsumer advocates fear could become increasingly common — especiallyin Southern California, where many homeowners have stretched themselvesto their financial limits to afford the regions record high housingprices. "The Overall,the foreclosure rate in the The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
  
  We’ve seen a dramatic increase in this kind of fraud,” Dan Bales, the head of fraud investigations at Mercury Insurance, told the Los Angeles Times . “People Foreclosure arson has doubled in California from 7 homes last year to 14 homes so far in 2008, according to insurance officials. In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. Many insurance companies that WERE writing homeowner’s insurance policies pulled out of California altogether after that one. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 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. Depending on how far the lenders and government are willing to bend backwards for bad loans and irresponsible homebuyers, we could see a mitigating effect from all these efforts. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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