13 Articles match "Foreclosures","Los Angeles","Properties"

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• Buyers Come Out in Droves For LA Auction
  
  But in the end they were all there for the same purpose — a chance to purchase real estate in Southern California — Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties in particular — at a “bargain” price. REDC) drew an estimated 1,800 potential homebuyers and investors to the Los Angeles Convention Center recently in the sort of frenzied buying environment not seen since the boom days of foreclosures of the early 1990s. Some were dressed for business. Others were dressed like they were out for a weekend at the mall.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
  
  An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. 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. The article goes on tomake the case It is a crime thatconsumer advocates fear could become increasingly common — especiallyin Southern California, where many homeowners have stretched themselvesto their financial limits to afford the regions record high housingprices. "The
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• Foreclosure Crisis Sparks Surge in Arson
  
  Facing foreclosure, some homeowners are setting fire to their homes for the insurance money. Consider the following: In South Carolina , a homeowner was charged with burning her home on the eve of foreclosure. In Massachusetts , there’s a growing concern that foreclosure arson is becoming a problem around the state as more and more properties are abandoned. In desperate times people resort to desperate measures. But they usually end up with a criminal conviction instead of cash.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  percent), Los Angeles (-24.5 Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. With home prices continuing to decline, both on a monthly and yearly basis, it stands to reason that distressed homeowners are not out of the woods yet if they need to sell their homes to escape foreclosure. Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
  
  The Tigers have given local fans a chance to momentarily forget about another dubious distinction: that they reside in a city with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation . Detroit’s Wayne County reported 4,190 properties entering foreclosure in September, the second most only behind Chicago’s Cook County (whose fans didn’t have any team to cheer in the playoffs this year). The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
  
  It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. Back in 1994 something called “The Northridge Earthquake” (misnamed as it was) shook Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. This does not bode well for worried homeowners who are sitting on the cusp of foreclosure. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures. But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one Long Beach, Calif ., Laura Richardson has lost, via foreclosure, the 1,600 square-foot, two-story Sacramento home with three bedrooms and 1.5 politician. Multiple media outlets are reporting that U.S. Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
  
  It’s not just average Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure these days. Two recent cases in point: record-setting baseball player Jose Canseco , and former NBA star Latrell Sprewell . Canseco, who first came to prominence as a right fielder with the Oakland Athletics back in the 1980s, has decided to walk away from his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino, Calif. The property has since gone back to the lender as an REO. Even rich and famous athletes who earned millions of dollars during their careers can be subjected to the emotional highs and lows of losing a home.
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• Room Enough for a Catnap
  
  In this lackluster real estate market potential homebuyers have been sitting on the fence, observing from the sidelines as the number of foreclosures keeps going up and home prices keep plummeting. Well, for one family it was the right time, an attractive property, and so they came off the fence and pounced at the opportunity of occupying a foreclosed property — quite literally, given that it’s a family of bobcats. What are they waiting for? Hopefully the right time to pounce on a devastated market, timing the bottom of the market before the turnaround begins.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
  
  Remarking on the Fed’s rescue of AIG, the Los Angeles Times commented this morning that it seems to be an “abrupt about-face” in position considering that the Fed did not bail out Lehman Brothers as it filed for bankruptcy protection (after having bailed out Bear Stearns earlier this year). But it can’t be very settling for the nation’s homeowners either, as many more continue to face foreclosure in the coming months until a bottom of the market is clearly defined. Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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