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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. Still, Doti, along with his colleague Essie Adibi, director of the Anderson Center, are diligently standing by their 2007 forecast made last December that real GDP will pickup for the second quarter of 2007 (2.1 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . At the same time, Nevada sales plunged 36 percent, while Florida posted a decline of 31 percent. Sales Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. filed for bankruptcy on Feb 7, sounding the alarm and bringing the total failure of subprime lenders to 20 since December, according to Bloomberg News . Panic is spreading in the U.S. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
  
  For all of today’s lenders who threw caution to the wind looking to cash in from the real estate frenzy of the past six years, the price they’re paying is bankruptcy, corporate dissolution or sale, or at least eliminating their subprime divisions. In all, an estimated 3,200 employees lost their jobs when it was announced. New Century is just the latest of many lenders in the subprime market that are now either filing for reorganization under Chapter 11 or trying to sell their subprime operations and laying off employees — like at Option One Mortgage . Greed and deceit.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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