10 Articles match "Foreclosures","Maine","Number"

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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns hedge funds proves that the depth of America’s foreclosure fiasco is far from over. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. Ironically, the rapid expansion of risky subprime lending has linked the fortunes of Wall Street to the fortunes of Main Street. Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis
  
  Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis The Washington Post The country's growing unemployment is overtaking subprime mortgages as the main driver of foreclosures, according to bankers and economists, threatening to send even higher the number...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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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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• Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
  
  Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  Wall Street analysts, main street investors, corporate executives and government bureaucrats all disagree on which mortgage company will be the next to trip and fall into bankruptcy. Skyrocketing foreclosure filings on subprime loans, those made to borrowers with poor credit, have caused huge losses for Wall Street hedge funds and other buyers of securities backed by those mortgages. In the last A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. But they all agree on one
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.com , the nation’s largest source of foreclosure listings and data. “Wachovia 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. In effect, waiving Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller     With assets of more than
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? 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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