9 Articles match "Georgia","Properties","Report"

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• First Quarter Foreclosure Stats
  
  The report documents 323,102 properties nationwide entering some stageof foreclosure in the first quarter, a 38 percent increase from theprevious quarter and a 72 percent year-over-year increase from thefirst quarter of 2005. Georgia, Colorado and Indiana reported the most foreclosure activity in the first quarter. RealtyTrac released foreclosure numbers for the first quarter of 2006 yesterday, and they show the nations foreclosures moving higher forthe fourth consecutive quarter, despite a decrease in March. The nation’s quarterly foreclosure rate of onenew foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
  
  As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and second
  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, Nevada,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• I'll Take Sour Cream and Chives
  
  The five: California, Florida (the hanging chad capital of the western world), Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. Just an FYI: in the upcoming 2008 presidential election, California will have 55 electoral votes, Florida 27, Michigan 17, Ohio 20 and Georgia 15. Edwards had to deflect some controversy last week as it was revealed that the former North Carolina senator reportedly has invested $16 million in a hedge fund involving subprime lenders that are presently foreclosing No butter for me. Personally, I like my hot baked potato covered with sour cream and chives.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
  
  Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. Foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors According to data from the RealtyTrac database, homebuyers and investors realized average savings over the past seven months of more than 40 percent on foreclosure purchases in Ohio and
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Filings Soar 90 Percent
  
  foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, reported RealtyTrac . Certainly not every community nationwide is seeing an increase in foreclosures, but foreclosed properties are becoming more commonplace and adding to the downward pressure on home prices in many areas.” Meanwhile, the Mortgage Bankers Association, in its quarterly snapshot A growing number of American homeowners across the country are getting foreclosure notices, according to new data released this week by RealtyTrac. U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Extreme' Dream Gone Bust
  
  ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition came to the rescue, demolishing the Harper’s old run down home with a faulty septic tank and replacing it with a 5,300 square-foot, two-story dream home in Lake City, Georgia. When the show first aired back on February 20, 2005, the home was the largest ever built in a week by the show. A published report by the Associated Press says that in addition to building the home with $450,000 worth of donated labor and materials, the partners and employees at Beazer also contributed $250,000 for the family, including scholarships for the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  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. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling or refinancing during pre-foreclosure." Georgia reported the nations highest foreclosure rate for the second month, with one new foreclosure for every 329 households.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
  
  According to published reports, more than 2 million Chapter 7 bankruptcies were filed that year (an all-time high) right before the new bankruptcy law went into effect. Gerdano, who expects consumer bankruptcies for 2008 to top 1 million, according to a Reuters report. As Bloomberg.com recently reported, the likelihood of Gerdano’s prediction coming to fruition is more than a possibility given that more The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache. In this, the legal sense for the abbreviation, we’re talking about
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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