13 Articles match "Equity","Homes","Negative"

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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 ldquo;These substantial home price declines bring positive and negative news,” said OFHEO Director James B. 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 OFHEO reports
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. and -29.3%, respectively, and all 20 cities are still in negative territory on a year-over-year basis." 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! When banks take back foreclosed-upon homes, they sometimes hire auction houses to unload properties. 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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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages — with an emphasis on those originated between 2004 and 2005 — Cagan said, “We have to figure out who has equity and who doesn’t. All those who bought or refinanced in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  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." Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
  
  Still, enough of the prime indicators are projected to turn and remain negative — or slightly positive at best — this year to conclude that the flow of California foreclosures will at least remain steady. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fighting Foreclosure: Seven Ways to Dodge Delinquency
  
  Paying off the reinstatement amount will cancel the foreclosure and enable the homeowner to continue to live in the home as if no default occurred. Borrowers may accomplish this by refinancing (with a family member cosigning perhaps) or by a friend or relative bailing out the borrower in exchange for equity or some other financial arrangement. If you have enough equity in the house to allow you to pay off the mortgage in full, The sharp rise in foreclosure activity in recent months does not paint a pretty picture for distressed borrowers: 437,000 foreclosure filings were reported in the first quarter of this year, according to RealtyTrac .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
  
  You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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