14 Articles match "Equity","Foreclose","Homes"

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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  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 Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade. At the Auction! Consumers eager to take advantage of the softening real estate market can now find significantly discounted real estate that has been foreclosed by lenders and is being auctioned to the highest bidder. Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Checklist for Buying a Bank-Owned REO Property - RealtyTrac
  
  Buying a bank-owned home in foreclosure isnt easy, and its hardly without risk. Bank-owned foreclosure homes are usually sold "as is," which means that the 15 percent discount you just saved on the purchase price can easily be eaten up by unforeseen expenses — such as repairs not immediately apparent in an exterior inspection. Many owners of homes that go into foreclosure have been struggling financially, which usually means that the house has not received needed repairs or general maintenance CHECKLIST: For Buying a Bank-Owned REO Property Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Are you a real estate investor or homebuyer looking to purchase a bank-owned property?
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• 8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
  
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• Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
  
  More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Finding financing for the foreclosure deal... While homebuyers are very happy to see home prices dropping, the credit crunch has put a clamp on foreclosure financing and many foreclosure lenders are scrutinizing each deal. Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties.
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  Most people in foreclosure today have zero equity in their homes,” said Thomas J. 20 and will provide a temporary, three-year change to the tax code to eliminate any taxes homeowners might face when banks renegotiate the terms of a home loan and forgive a portion of the outstanding mortgage debt. Sometimes, we do equity sharing deals, where we bring the defaulting homeowner current and then sell the property and split the profit with the owner 50/50,” added McManus. “Other 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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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. But for those with toxic loans, a high-cost mortgage with sane terms is better than foreclosure, bankruptcy and having your stuff sitting on the curb. Equity Sharing During the past few months there has been a huge debate in Washington regarding how to assist those with toxic loans, assuming they should get any assistance at all. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G.
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 He asks a question toward the end of his post about why the Midwestseems to be getting hit unusually hard with foreclosures in spite ofthe fact that both coasts saw higher price spikes in home values and ahigher percentage of "exotic loans." Thats a pretty reliable formula forhigh p=568 568 ).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
  
  The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off. The scammers dontcreate the foreclosure rates, but they swoop in at the time thatsomeone is in distress," said Elizabeth Renuart, a staff attorney withthe National Consumer Law Center in Boston and the author of "DreamsForeclosed: The Rampant Theft of Americans Homes ThroughEquity-Stripping Foreclosure Rescue Scams." An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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