13 Articles match "December","Foreclosures","Real Estate"

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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest. But the 109,652 new foreclosure filings during the month still represented a 35 percent increase from December 2005 and marked the fifth consecutive month with a foreclosure total above 100,000, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. U.S. Colorado, Nevada and Georgia posted the nation’s three highest state foreclosure rates despite decreasing foreclosure activity in all three states.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
  
  Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Celebrity Foreclosures
  
  Rich people, it turns out, are just as vulnerable as poor folks to foreclosure. New York Post celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil today reported that Veronica Hearst, the widow and third wife of Randolph “Randy” A. Hearst, is fighting foreclosure proceedings on her 5.1 acre oceanfront estate in Manalapan, just The couple paid for $29.9 million for the estate, located on South Ocean Blvd.,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  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 foreclosure activity on Main Street. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. filed for bankruptcy on Feb 7, sounding the alarm and Panic is spreading in the U.S. 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,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
  
  The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
  
  million empty houses were listed for sale during October, November and December, according to the Census Bureau . For real estate investors and home buyers, weakness in January construction means that builders will slash prices and offer incentives to motivate buyers into writing offers. Foreclosures surge upward The biggest news in residential real estate, however, seems to be foreclosures. The 130,511 new foreclosure filings Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
  
  Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    One pre-foreclosure expert says a new federal law will change everything, and short sales and short payoff sales will become the new trend in the marketplace. All agree on one thing: The pre-foreclosure market is a highly specialized area of the foreclosure business that is not for amateurs. “Most Another claims that developing a series of “systems” in your business is the key to success. A third warns that accurate data and timely information
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
  
  Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This Based on his latest property surveys (conducted December 2006), the Director of Research and Analytics for First American CoreLogic concluded in his latest report titled, “Mortgage Payment Reset:
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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