12 Articles match "Homes","June","Real Estate"

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• Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
  
  Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast for Reaching a double-digit peak above 14 percent before dropping back to 9 percent over the past six months, the rate of price appreciation is still more than double the norm (4 percent) for the nation over time.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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• More Trouble for Ed McMahon
  
  The loan is secured by the star’s Beverly Hills home, which went into foreclosure back in June for $644,000 owed on a $4.8 In interviews with Al Roker on “The Today Show” and Larry King Live on CNN back in June, McMahon admitted that poor money management, bad investments and two divorces led to the financial dilemma he and his wife Pamela now face. McMahon’s Beverly Hills home remains on the market at $4.6 Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Ed McMahon, former sidekick to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” and corporate spokesman for the American Family Publisher’s sweepstakes.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. 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 It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  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 Home Price Indices showing annual declines. and its June measurement (50.4) Adding Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  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. With all these distressed homeowners getting into financial trouble, combined with layoffs from the auto industry, it’s understandable that the state government may want to do something to promote homeownership and to educate its citizens about the details of what owning a home really means from a practical
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie Mae Toughens Foreclosure Guidelines
  
  And one of the most dramatic changes that will relieve some the tension in those big shoulders has to do with former homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure. Effective June 1, 2008, Fannie will require a potential borrower’s credit history to be free from any foreclosure activity for five years before it will consider buying a mortgage taken out by that borrower. There are only three exceptions to this It was bound to happen. With government officials at the local, state and federal levels clamoring to clamp down on the nation’s financial institutions and other loan originators,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  But opponents say the law is cutting down on the legitimate loans available to residents of the 10 zip codes and thereby will lower house values by reducing the number of potential buyers who can qualify for a loan, creating a glut of unsold inventory. The bill requires certain “high risk” mortgage applicants to receive credit counseling before taking out a home loan, and only applies to state-chartered loan originators, not federally chartered loan originators, according to the Chicago Association of Realtors. One such law is Illinois Senate Bill 2349 , which passed back in June
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Mid-Year Report: Nation Not Over the Hump Yet
  
  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. 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. We’re now mid-way through 2008 and the signs aren’t there yet to say for certain that we’re over the hump and on the way out of recession. But a recession it is nonetheless.
  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 Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981 created a new way to own and invest in real estate: Equity sharing. 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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