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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. 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.” 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The 7 Lost Secrets of Foreclosure Investing
  
  Therefore, RealtyTrac has compiled The 7 Lost Secrets of Successful Foreclosure Investing : SECRET #1: Secure Financing — Step one is obtaining a lender's written pre-approval letter before beginning to shop for a house or condo. Being pre-qualified gives you bargaining power when it comes time to writing offers. SECRET #2: Plot a Course — Chart your course before you set sail. Rapid and sweeping changes in the real estate market are altering the way investors and agents buy and sell properties — especially foreclosures. Increasingly, real estate investors
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
  
  It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern California’s cooling housing market as a somewhat cryptic slowing of demand for housing in 2006. 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. One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I I think there were troubles to start with; that’s what
  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. Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. The reason, of course, is that the real money is not in real estate, its in seminars, books and tapes. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Truth About Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Avoiding Foreclosure, Chapter 7, Chapter 13 - RealtyTrac
  
  can stop the foreclosure, keep the house, and the lender cant do anything about it." Additionally, there are court costs to be paid, AND, of course, the homeowner must hire an attorney who is going to want to get paid too! Visit Foreclosure Center Visit our Foreclosure Center to read more detailed information about foreclosures. Home Value Analysis: Order Your FREE Report! Price: Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest level since early 2004, according to the National Association of Realtors . Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: South Carolina
  
  There is an immense amount of short sale activity going on. am referring to the investors who over-extended themselves with speculation, the second home buyers who bought more than they could afford, and the buyers who were talked into adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) loans so they could buy more home than they could afford. A lot of foreclosures here in South Carolina are also manufactured houses. Of course the condo market is what is really making our area look bad. We are seeing more and more foreclosures come onto the market at this time here in South Carolina. We are in an
  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. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  Share values have dropped more 90 percent, investors have lost more than $100 billion, and both companies were rescued by the federal government earlier this month, placed in a government conservatorship run by the newly created Federal Housing Finance Agency. 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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