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12 Articles match "Foreclosures","Miami","Real Estate"
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National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes mortgage lending more transparent, something which will reduce foreclosure rates, cut lender losses and make mortgages more enticing to investors worldwide. “Across the country we carefully license real estate brokers, lawyers and doctors,” says James J. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
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 Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Miami Blogger Sparks $25 Million Lawsuit
A Miami real estate agent and blogger was sued last week by a real estate developer for $25 million, according to the Miami Herald . Developer Tibor Hollo filed a defamation lawsuit against Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga, who claimed in his popular blog — Miami Condo Investments — that Hollo went bankrupt in the 1980s and that one of his current South Florida developments could be headed for bankruptcy, according to Inman News. “My My opinion is that this development is doomed,” wrote Lechuga on Jan. 10, predicting
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the local economy has been steadily losing jobs in the automotive sector, Detroit reported the highest foreclosure rate of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the country for the third quarter of 2006 as well. After two straight quarters when Indianapolis, Atlanta and Dallas led the nation in foreclosure rate, Detroit took over the top spot on the RealtyTrac Q3 2006 U.S. Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report — followed by Ft. Lauderdale and Denver .
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- 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
percent) and Miami (-28.3 Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. On a monthly basis, from April to May the worse decliners were Miami (-3.6 ldquo;The overall real estate market continued to slide in May, with the 10-City and 20-City Composites declining 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 .
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- 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
ldquo;The steep downturn in residential real estate continues,” said David M. rdquo; According to Case-Shiller, the weakest market in the country is currently Las Vegas, followed closely by Miami and Phoenix. Taken altogether, these reports should be seen as good tidings for real estate investors as well as home buyers who are interested in mining the foreclosure marketplace for bargain properties. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for at least the immediate future. The biggest decliners were Las Vegas and Miami, with 26.8 Considered together, the Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller
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- 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. In the Northern Seattle area there currently very few REO properties, and in terms of real short sales, I have seen under 10 that are decent over the past month. 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. Out of those nine contracts, nine have been beat by better offers. I
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Cape Coral, Fla.
The agents will be sharing their insights about what is happening on the ground in their local housing market, particularly as it relates to foreclosures. In my most recent transaction I had a law firm, a title company for the law firm, and a title company on this coast for the title company in Miami. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Contact Gloria or post comments below. Posted Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of guest blog posts from members of the RealtyTrac Agent Network . Your comments, questions and feedback
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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