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• Foreclosure Activity Up in 77 of Top 100 Metros
  
  RealtyTrac released its third-quarter metro foreclosure rankings today, showing that rising foreclosures are affecting many areas of the country. Saccacio said in a statement that foreclosure activity increased on a quarterly basis in 77 out of the nations 100 largest metro areas. “Although Although cities in just three states — California, Ohio and Florida — accounted for more than two-thirds of the top 25 metro foreclosure Company CEO James J. Still, there continue to be pockets of the country — most noticeably metro areas in the Carolinas, Virginia and Texas — that
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• U.S. Foreclosure Activity Surges in First Quarter
  
  foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2007 was up 35 percent from the first quarter of 2006, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The report documents a total of 437,498 foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions, during the quarter and a quarterly foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 264 households — the highest quarterly foreclosure U.S. Nevada reported the highest state foreclosure rate during the quarter, with one foreclosure filing for every 75
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
  
  New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month. That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Nevada took the top spot with one new foreclosure filing for every 362 households.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Metro Foreclosures: California Catch-up
  
  Foreclosure activity decreased in the majority of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas in the second quarter of 2006, including Indianapolis (down 32 percent from the previous quarter), Atlanta (down 37 percent), Dallas (down 12 percent) and Denver (down 18 percent). But those four cities still documented the four highest metro foreclosure rates among the top 100 cities, according to RealtyTrac’s just released Q2 U.S. Metropolitan Foreclosure Report . A few cities posted increasing foreclosure activity in the second quarter, including Stockton, Calif. (up
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Exceed 100K for Fifth Month
  
  foreclosure activity dropped 9 percent in December, backing down from a November foreclosure total that was the year’s highest. But the 109,652 new foreclosure filings during the month still represented a 35 percent increase from December 2005 and marked the fifth consecutive month with a foreclosure total above 100,000, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. U.S. Colorado, Nevada and Georgia posted the nation’s three highest state foreclosure rates despite decreasing foreclosure activity in all three states.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
  
  Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." They could have added a healthy foreclosure market as well. According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Such consumer confidence does not seem to jive with RealtyTracs May 2006 data either, where the Sunshine State was ranked as having the second highest number of foreclosures in the country (8,898) behind only Texas. Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
  
  The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. Thats a foreclosure rate households. Heres what our CEO, James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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