11 Articles match "February","Properties","Real Estate"

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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. Thats a foreclosure rate
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
  
  February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. The February monthly decrease is more likely a seasonal decrease helped along by a shorter-than-average month and the fact that Januarys numbers are often padded with some pent-up foreclosure activity from the holiday season. That premise is supported Foreclosure Market Report . So does the monthly decrease mean weve hit a ceiling of sorts for this cycle in terms of foreclosures?
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Don't Back Down in September
  
  RealtyTrac’s monthly foreclosure report shows 112,210 properties entering some stage of foreclosure during September, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August but an increase of more than 63 percent from September 2005. September’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 households was the third highest monthly foreclosure rate year to date, behind only the foreclosure rates reported in August and February. Foreclosure activity in September didn’t back down much from the jump reported in the previous month, RealtyTrac reported today. Colorado, Nevada
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Too Soon For a Comeback
  
  month supply in February). percent in February. According to the official statement of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), a monthly increase in prices was reported between January and February 2008 for seven out of the nine census divisions tracked by the agency. percent on a yearly basis from February 2008, and down 3.1 At present it does not appear that there is enough evidence yet to declare that a market comeback is in the offing. The bottom line is that no one can say anything with 100 percent certainty given the current state of our
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
  
  In fact, the RealtyTrac report has shown month-to-month decreases in previous months, even during the dramatic run-up in foreclosure activity that has occurred over the past year and a half: in February 2008, November 2007, September 2007, June 2007, April 2007, and February 2007. Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• America's Most Expensive Foreclosure?
  
  Mention the word “foreclosure” and most homebuyers and investors conjure up images of run-down and dilapidated properties located in undesirable neighborhoods. But now some of the most opulent estates are increasingly becoming available for savvy investors and homebuyers as a growing number of well-healed homeowners are defaulting on their mortgage payments and property taxes. If opulence and grandeur is Consider Veronica Hearst’s Manalapan mansion. The mansion was foreclosed on February 25th on the Palm Beach County courthouse steps.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Thriller — Pay Up or Beat It
  
  For the second time in less than a month, the real estate bubble has burst on a rich and famous homeowner’s palatial estate. Following closely on the heels of another trophy property recently sold on the auction block, Michael Jacksons Neverland Ranch is set to possibly suffer a similar fate. The sprawling Jackson estate — located at 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road — sits on 2,800 acres of rolling hills in California’s wine county north of On March 19, at 1:00 p.m., Michael Jacksons Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, Calif.,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Extreme' Dream Gone Bust
  
  ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition came to the rescue, demolishing the Harper’s old run down home with a faulty septic tank and replacing it with a 5,300 square-foot, two-story dream home in Lake City, Georgia. When the show first aired back on February 20, 2005, the home was the largest ever built in a week by the show. Still, for a potential homebuyer or investor looking for a newer property in a suburb of Atlanta, this is probably one of those properties that will go back to the bank as an REO. Three years ago Patricia and Milton Harper received a gift courtesy of reality television.
  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. As of February, the rate was one foreclosure forevery 1,223 households. At the same time, thesteep rise in housing prices over the last few years An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. The article goes on tomake the case that foreclosure fraud crime is on the rise.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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