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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies
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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 behind
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
As has been the case for some time, the housing market continues to be a primary source of weakness in the real economy as well as in the financial markets,” Bernanke said. “However, Until the core problem with the housing and financial markets is solved, foreclosures will continue to be pervasive, offering opportunities for home buyers and investors to get into the market before it eventually turns around sometime in the next few years. In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
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 . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 percent In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
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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 behind
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Short sales rising
Short sales occur when home prices fall and mortgage debt exceeds the value of the property. If the lender agrees, homeowners can sell their depreciated home and settle their debt for a reduced sum. While short sales remain a small segment of the residential real estate market, the increase bears watching for investors, buyers and real estate agents. Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . million vacant homes await buyers In addition to weaker sales and declining prices, a record number of homes are sitting vacant awaiting buyers. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today. million units economists had predicted and the largest monthly increase since January 2006. To Total housing starts rose 9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 million units in February, higher than the 1.4
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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Recession Risk Rising
With foreclosures rising and home values plunging, Bush is considering a series of economic measures, but it isn’t clear what kind of package would pass Congress in an election year. Speculation is mounting that Bush could unveil a stimulus package for the economy in his annual State of the Union address which he is due to deliver on January 28. But according to the Wall Street Journal : Amid fears the economy could be slipping into a recession , President George W. Bush abandoned his usually sunny rhetoric last week and painted a darker picture of the economy’s condition.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with it being a second home With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., In May 2008, there were 272 new listings, down 1.5
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
The February monthly decrease is more likely a seasonal decrease helped along by a shorter-than-average month and the fact that Januarys numbers are often padded with some pent-up foreclosure activity from the holiday season. foreclosure activity was down 6 percent from January. The more important indicator is the year-over-year increase, which has been between February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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