8 Articles match "Colorado","Repossessions"

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• Foreclosures Up Across the Board in November
  
  The report shows increases in all three phases of the foreclosure process — default, auction and bank repossession. Defaults and auctions each accounted for about 40 percent of the total, while bank repossessions accounted for about 20 percent of the total. With one new foreclosure filing for every 346 households Nevada moved past Colorado to claim the top state foreclosure rate. Foreclosures hit their highest level of the year so far in November, with 120,334 new foreclosure filings reported nationwide during the month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Up 7 Percent in March
  
  The March total — which includes default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005 and resulted in a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 775 U.S. Colorados foreclosure rate ranked second highest, followed by Californias foreclosure rate, which leapfrogged into third place thanks to a 36 percent jump in foreclosure activity. With 149,150 foreclosure filings reported nationwide in March, U.S. foreclosure activity was up 7 percent from the previous month and 47 percent
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report more than two years ago. Colorado and Georgia rounded out the top three state foreclosure rates, followed by Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, Texas and New Jersey. U.S. foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first quarter
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Take a Spring Break
  
  total of 147,708 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions, were reported during the month, a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 783 U.S. Colorado came in second with one foreclosure filing for every 314 households. Foreclosure activity dipped 1 percent in April after hitting a two-year high in March, but foreclosure filings were still up 62 percent from April 2006, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
  
  In Colorado , a homeowner was convicted for setting his home on fire to prevent the lender from repossessing the property. “We’ve In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money. But they usually end up with a criminal conviction instead of cash.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
  
  Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue that this chart shows that the bulk of the properties that were at risk for foreclosure have migrated through the process and are now being repossessed by the foreclosing lenders. On the other hand, some might argue that many properties are still at risk for falling into foreclosure,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia as other areas significantly affected by mortgage fraud. The report identifies the most common scam as “illegal property flipping.” These investors will forgo jumping through the legal loopholes to help distressed homeowners and just wait for the public auction, or until the property has been repossessed by the lender. The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Is Eight Enough?
  
  The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart). One example is Colorado, whose foreclosure rate ranked No. The Colorado Division of Housing set up a foreclosure hotline to help people facing foreclosure. While there have been monthly fluctuations up and down during this time period, the quarterly numbers consistently have been up quarter over quarter, and the most recent quarter was no exception, according to the U.S. Foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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