11 Articles match "Equity","Houses","Inventory"

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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  Lenders use auction companies because they move inventory quickly. When banks take back foreclosed-upon homes, they sometimes hire auction houses to unload properties. Banks are increasingly selling foreclosed properties at auctions to reduce the growing inventory of REO properties. That scenario has become more common as 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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• Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
  
  Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. That question is: “What IF housing prices plummet?” If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners into foreclosure, providing new opportunities for real estate investors, speculators, real estate agents and anyone looking to buy a home from the foreclosure pipeline. Doti, president of Chapman University, updated his 2006 economic forecast for the nation, he did have one question that could throw a monkey wrench into the equation, and he called it, THE BIG IF .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bubble monitoring
  
  For instance, there are a plethora ofblogs such as The Housing Bubble and Northern New Jersey Real Estate Bubble that use the rising foreclosure numbers shown by RealtyTracs data tosupport their theory of a real estate bubble about to burst. One of the best reads among the bubble blog genre is BubbleMarkets Inventory Tracking , which regularly uses RealtyTrac data totrack how a " property flipper in trouble "has fallen into foreclosure on several investment properties. Its always fascinating to see the different ways people useRealtyTracs foreclosure data. Many ofthese bloggers
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Seattle, Wash.
  
  The money in this town has just shifted from buying retail to buying wholesale, and there are a lot of hungry wallets burning holes for positive equity investments. Because of the lack of “urban sprawl” in Seattle we do not have the inventory of foreclosure homes that the rest of the country has. Even then these homes are being purchased at 20 percent less then market value. So, if you want to Over the past three months, my clients and I have presented nine contracts to pre-foreclosure, REO and short sale sellers. Out of those nine contracts, nine have been beat
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. 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. Miller  
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
  
  Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years. Or to utilize principal
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next two years
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors. But opponents
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
  
  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. At the end of the day, it appears as if expectations that home prices will continue to go upward and build up more equity in 2007 is a gamble that is going to backfire on many of these short-term homeowners, resulting in opportunities for investors, real estate professionals and home buyers to purchase California homes at bargain prices.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
  
  Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Ways and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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