11 Articles match "Foreclosures","Houses","Land"

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• How to Land a Foreclosure House
  
  How to Land a Foreclosure House September 28, 2009, Wall Street Journal Buying a foreclosure home often is appealing to house hunters trying to stretch their dollars. Tags: foreclosure deals foreclosure listings foreclosur But finding a good one can be a challenge. So, if you're considering the purchase...(
  Foreclosure Pulse - Monday, September 28, 2009
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• Glossary of Foreclosure and Real Estate Terminology - Realtytrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
  
  For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate. homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. But for many U.S. This week, Florida-based homebuilder Tousa Inc.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County Wednesday. The topic on the table: the high foreclosure rate in Cuyahoga County — one of the highest in the nation — and what can be done to ease the bleeding. One example — Rep. Steven C.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
  
  Whether the on-coming turbulence translates into more foreclosure activity at the national level is uncertain. percent as unemployment rises over the next several quarters and inflation continues its flight pattern above the nation’s comfort level “as the housing market continues to deteriorate.” Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a year-over-year basis as the The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Pauses to Pass the Popcorn Around
  
  The bond market — which called for the Fed to take a breather from making further adjustments — went unchanged for the day, and the real estate industry — which believes the market is in the midst of a major period of correction and headed for a soft landing — breathed a momentary sigh of relief. The problem is, in Tuesday’s press release the Fed noted the slowing growth rate of the national economy, directly commenting on “the gradual cooling of the housing market and the lagged effects of increases in interest rates and energy prices.” Alan Greenspan started directing this movie more than two years ago when he made the first of 17 consecutive edits (so-called “adjustments”) to interest rates, raising them 25 basis points each.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Seattle, Wash.
  
  Over the past three months, my clients and I have presented nine contracts to pre-foreclosure, REO and short sale sellers. The Seattle market is not what you see on the news, hear on the radio, or read in the paper in terms of the rest of the nation’s foreclosure woes. Here are some things to keep in mind when investing in the Seattle market: Land is an extremely limited resource in this city. Out of those nine contracts, nine have been beat by better offers. In the Northern Seattle area there currently very few REO properties, and in terms of real short sales, I have
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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