12 Articles match "Foreclosures","Homes","Texas"

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• U.S. Foreclosure Laws
  
  Foreclosure State Laws By RealtyTrac Foreclosure laws and timelines vary from state to state. Knowing the process in your state will help you adopt a more effective investing strategy and avoid procedural pitfalls. State Foreclosure Laws Quickly locate and review the foreclosure law specific to your state � or any state you�re considering investing in. Select A State Alabama
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
  
  Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and second
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two extremes,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money’s writers and editors selected from an initial pool of 745 “livable” cities with populations of more than 50,000 with good jobs, low crime, quality schools, plenty of open space, lots to do, AND rational home prices. They could have added a healthy foreclosure market as well. According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." And the winner is . . .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure. The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Not surprisingly, more than 115,568 properties entered some stage of foreclosure nationwide in October, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S. Debt! Last year, the average American receiving financial counseling earned $27,000 annually and had $38,500 of unsecured debt spread over eight credit cards, according the National Foundation for
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . There were 176,137 foreclosure filings in May, up 19 percent from April. U.S. James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation was granted in the form of a foreclosure moratorium at the time. Given today’s economic climate, however, there exists a connection between foreclosures and hurricanes that poses a potentially even greater threat to the health and safety residents from Texas to Maine. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area. Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. Foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors According to data from the RealtyTrac database, homebuyers and investors realized average savings over the past seven months of more than 40 percent on foreclosure purchases in Ohio and average savings of more than 30 percent on foreclosure purchases in Indiana , Tennessee , Georgia and Texas .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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