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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  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 Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing Slump Prelude to Recession, Study Says
  
  The nation’s housing slump, crippled by falling prices and rising inventories of unsold homes, is the worst in a generation and still hasn’t run its full course, according to Harvard University’s annual housing report. rdquo; The study, the “ State of the Nation's Housing 2008 ,” noted that housing starts, new home sales and existing home sales are at all-time lows since after World War II, while home price declines and foreclosure filings are the worst on record. Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies painted a bleak picture of the current housing downturn, claiming that “the nation is in the throes of a housing downturn that is shaping up to be the worst in a generation.”
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Of course, that could change as interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages rise next year and beyond. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
  
  That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. The slowing sales and stagnant home prices have in turn contributed to a sharp rise in defaults and foreclosures . Quipping that most economists are lucky to be right once in their It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through a loan modification or re-financing, stay in their homes.” Its not the governments job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford.” Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
  
  These loan buyers are generally protected against borrower claims under a legal principle called the “holder-in-due-course” rule. According to The Language of Real Estate , “a holder-in-due-course enjoys a favored position with respect to the instrument because the maker cannot raise certain ‘personal defenses’ in refusing payment. Under the holder-in-due-course rule the borrower remains in debt when the mortgage is sold and re-sold and New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller     It’s fight time in New
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  home mortgages. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. They are profit-seeking "companies" in the sense of shareholders and being in business but they are also GSEs -- government-sponsored enterprises, companies started by the federal government and companies endowed Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  This shift in percentages shows that a higher proportion of properties that enter the forecosure process are ending up repossessed by lenders. Posted 08-14-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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