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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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• 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. Texas foreclosure activity increased 4 percent, helping the state reclaim the top spot from California U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
  
  It’s a recurring theme in the real estate industry; mostly visible in the financial sector, although one would have to be a fool to believe it didn’t take place in every aspect of the real estate transaction. Although these two events took place during different real estate cycles and economies, comeuppance was similarly swift for both. Greed and deceit. And let’s not forget all the news stories out there about mortgage and foreclosure scams these days.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” 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 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange,
  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
  
  Lucier, a Tampa Bay real estate investor and author of The Pre-Foreclosure Property Investor’s Kit . “That’s On December 18, Congress passed new legislation to eliminate taxes on mortgage debt. He uses the Internet, scripts, form letters, call sheets, check lists, direct mail campaigns, objection handling techniques and other “systems” that help him locate, track, negotiate, purchase and sell pre-foreclosures. 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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