11 Articles match "Foreclose","Houses","Inventory"

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• Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
  
  Lenders use auction companies because they move inventory quickly. 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. 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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• How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
  
  By definition a short sale is literally the sale of a home for less money than is currently owed the lender on the outstanding mortgage being foreclosed on. Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct a short sale, the foreclosing lender has to agree to it, essentially agreeing to accept less money than it is owed on the loan secured by the house. A short sale is not a vehicle normally seen during Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so great as to generate real concern for the oncoming hurricane season this year. The potential for damage to other homes and personal property, along with the hazardous danger of bodily harm involved, may give support to the idea being promoted in many cities, counties and states around the country to hold lenders liable for maintaining the foreclosed properties in their REO inventory until they are sold. The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: South Carolina
  
  am referring to the investors who over-extended themselves with speculation, the second home buyers who bought more than they could afford, and the buyers who were talked into adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) loans so they could buy more home than they could afford. A lot of foreclosures here in South Carolina are also manufactured houses. There seem to be more high-end homes being foreclosed on too. We are seeing more and more foreclosures come onto the market at this time here in South Carolina. There is an immense amount of short sale activity going on.
  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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• 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. At the national
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market. in March, spurred by investors taking advantage of low prices on foreclosed properties." On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Is Eight Enough?
  
  Foreclosure Market Report released by RealtyTrac today. And while this upward trend in foreclosure activity is driven largely by a few populous states with volatile housing markets, there's no doubt the pain is spilling over into many other areas across the country. “Forty-eight The Colorado Division of Housing set up a foreclosure hotline to help people facing foreclosure. The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have passed measures that would allow the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in special mortgages for those facing foreclosure. Real estate values will not rise until the inventory of unsold homes is reduced. Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller     With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation’s fourth-largest banking
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. If we tighten mortgage standards so that only those with great credit can buy homes we won’t have enough purchasers to clear the inventory of foreclosed properties now on-hand or to stabilize home prices.” Saccacio explains that “we have to enable purchasers with less-than-perfect credit to buy homes. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller    
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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