8 Articles match "Homes","Houses","June"

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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  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 Home Price Index released today. 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 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County Wednesday. The state went from the seventh highest total of foreclosures in the nation in April to the fourth highest total in June. At the local level Cuyahoga County went from the county with the highest foreclosure rate in the state — one foreclosure filing for every 453 households in May — down to the seventh highest foreclosure rate in the state — one foreclosure filing for every 508 households — for June. It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. In June 2008 — the most recent monthly ranking available from RealtyTrac — the Great Lakes State ranked fifth nationally, reporting 12,025 properties with foreclosure filings, accounting for 5 percent of the nation’s total foreclosure filings for the month. Lights! Camera!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors. But opponents
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mid-Year Report: Nation Not Over the Hump Yet
  
  But real estate — housing prices to be precise — is the sign that forecasters at the A. In their June 2008 issue of the Economic & Business Review, the U.S. Forecast article for 2008-2009 is entitled, “The Recessionary Outlook: Housing Prices Will Determine Its Length and Intensity.” As it has in times past, real estate has led this nation into recession, and it will lead us out as well — when the signs are there for a recovery. We’re now mid-way through 2008 and the signs aren’t there yet to say for certain that we’re over
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mortgage Reform to Calm Foreclosure Storm
  
  In an attempt to address the recent downturn in the real estate market — evidenced by rising foreclosures and falling home prices and which many believe may threaten to undermine the overall economy — the House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that imposes more stringent regulatory oversight of the mortgage industry. The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. Called The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007, the bill ( H.R. 3915 ) claims to "amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future?
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  This shift in percentages shows that a higher proportion of properties that enter the forecosure process are ending up repossessed by lenders. Posted 08-14-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends Comments
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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