9 Articles match "Foreclosures","Houses","Las Vegas"

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• The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
  
  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more and more homeowners forced out of their homes by foreclosure are turning to vandalism to lash out in some tangible way in a situation where they feel powerless. Las Vegas is used as a backdrop for the story, not surprising given that the foreclosure rate in Las Vegas consistently ranks among the top 10 metro foreclosure rates, according to RealtyTrac. The article claims that "real estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have substantial damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C."
  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. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Local Market Perspective: Cleveland, Ohio
  
  Other locations — including Las Vegas, much of California and Florida — have two corrections to make. Your house could be the gem among very tired listings in its price range. Sell your current less expensive house and buy-up to a more expensive one. WATCH: Here in Cleveland, watch the market for the best deals! Some sellers are against the wall and will sell well under market value.
  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. 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. The notable exceptions included Detroit — a longtime posterchild for the foreclosure meltdown — and Philadelphia, along with a few other Pennsylvania metro areas.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Tops PMI's Risk Index
  
  Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Given that fact, it is no surprise that two out of those four metros also documented some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country for all of 2006. According to RealtyTrac’s year-end report for 2006 , Detroit led the nation’s Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the nation, scores increased for 34 out of the
  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. Seattle did not experience the “urban sprawl” boom seen in so many other cities plagued with foreclosure woes. 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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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  What does all this mean to anyone looking to the nation’s foreclosure market for a home purchase? It means that there has never been a better time in recent history to get off the fence and buy that primary residence or investment property you’ve been waiting for. the city with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate in February, according to RealtyTrac. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;Little positive news can be found when cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix report annual declines as large as -29.9% quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 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 Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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