16 Articles match "Colorado","Foreclosures","Real Estate"

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• FHA Program Linked to High Colorado Foreclosure Rate
  
  An illuminating article in the Denver Post connects the dots between Colorado’s high foreclosure rate and an FHA program gone awry: “Created to extend the dream of homeownership to first-time buyers, the so-called FHA gift program instead has led to rampant foreclosures. Nearly 6,000 FHA loans have wound up in foreclosure in Colorado in the past two years, and during that time the program allowed more than 25 percent of FHA buyers to use gifts as down payments.” The article recounts several stories of homeowners who paid just a few hundred dollars to buy their home, using
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Laws
  
  Foreclosure State Laws By RealtyTrac Foreclosure laws and timelines vary from state to state. Knowing the process in your state will help you adopt a more effective investing strategy and avoid procedural pitfalls. State Foreclosure Laws Quickly locate and review the foreclosure law specific to your state � or any state you�re considering investing in. Select A State Alabama
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
  
  Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. Several of the states with the 10 lowest appreciation rates also posted foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in the third quarter, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest. But the 109,652 new foreclosure filings during the month still represented a 35 percent increase from December 2005 and marked the fifth consecutive month with a foreclosure total above 100,000, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. U.S. Colorado, Nevada and Georgia posted the nation’s three highest state foreclosure rates despite decreasing foreclosure activity in all three states.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Don't Back Down in September
  
  Foreclosure activity in September didn’t back down much from the jump reported in the previous month, RealtyTrac reported today. RealtyTrac’s monthly foreclosure report shows 112,210 properties entering some stage of foreclosure during September, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August but an increase of more than 63 percent from September 2005. September’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 households Colorado, Nevada and Michigan posted the highest state foreclosure rates, and California reported the most foreclosure activity of any state in terms of sheer numbers.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
  
  Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• CO Gives Owners More Time to Fix Foreclosure
  
  gives Colorado homeowners who enter foreclosure more time to “cure” the loan in foreclosure before the public foreclosure sale. In the past, Colorado homeowners had 45 to 60 days from the commencement of foreclosure proceedings — initiated by what is called a notice of election and demand — to cure the loan by making all past-due payments along with late charges and other costs. This redemption period A state law that took effect Jan. 1
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. Thats a foreclosure rate households. Heres what our CEO, James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Fort Collins, Colorado. They could have added a healthy foreclosure market as well. According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). Like Fort Collins, most of them have homes somewhere in the foreclosure pipeline, proving that foreclosures are present even in highly desirable locales. Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ."
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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