5 Articles match "Dallas","Houses"

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• Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
  
  homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. Last year, the tumbling housing market claimed such large builders as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who preferred that the Committee not wait and raise the FFR at this meeting. The ongoing housing contraction, along with stressed financial markets and soft labor markets are key concerns for the Fed, as are tight credit conditions and rising energy costs. The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25 percent back
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
  
  That will worsen the already sharp housing downturn, with ripple effects on hiring and spending. billion, Dallas and Washington at $4 billion each, and Chicago at $3.9 Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. Conference of Mayors .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 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 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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