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• Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
  
  and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . Carney was speaking at the research council’s most recent quarterly luncheon, where foreclosures were the topic of the day. That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• California Consumers Hit the Skids
  
  Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., The report cites concerns about the housing market, gasoline prices, the job market and the volatility of the stock market as key to the negativity among consumers about present and future economic conditions. state where home sales volume and home prices have been deflated while job layoffs continue to mount. Analysts at the A. are reporting consumer confidence among Californians at the lowest level recorded since it began tracking the economic indicator back in 2002.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  If California’s economic indicators stay at their present course, 2007 should be a very good year for investing and purchasing foreclosure properties at bargain prices. At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Bargains on the Beach
  
  What it comes down to in order to successfully purchase beachfront property is identifying good potential markets to invest in, and doing some legwork and research to analyze what it is going to take in order to put together a deal with the homeowner or lender involved in the foreclosure. Recently, RealtyTrac published its own list of potential beachfront investment communities ripe for the purchase of vacation homes on the home page of Yahoo! The list was further analyzed, taking into account the present number of foreclosures found at each location until the original
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  Saccacio credited the company’s continued success to a loyal customer base of real estate investors, home buyers and real estate professionals who continue to see the value of the information and research tools RealtyTrac provides to successfully take advantage of foreclosure opportunities where they present themselves. Saccacio also thanked a hard working group of employees who are dedicated to servicing the needs of those customers to assure them of the most accurate and up-to-the-minute data possible, along with the most technologically advanced tools available to make
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
  
  Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University suggest that the number of foreclosures for the state will continue to dwindle for the foreseeable future. None of the factors that contributed to the last great rush in the state’s foreclosure pipeline back in the early 1990s is present this time around. Since unemployment rates are historically a good indicator of foreclosure rates, this California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A. This sheds light on some of the most recent foreclosure statistics published by RealtyTrac (see our latest
  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. In the group’s monthly release, Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said, "This month's Consumer Confidence Index is the fifth lowest reading ever. Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  think subprime loans have made it possible for a lot of low-income households to buy a home for the first time. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. And how are their pocketbooks feeling these days with higher fuel prices and higher food prices, on top of concerns about whether they can continue to afford to stay in their home and whether they will have a job to go to tomorrow. Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves. The way things are going nowadays you too have about as much a chance of correctly predicting
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• Gentle Ben Says the "R" Word...Finally!
  
  Our present situation is starting to look more and more like the recession of the early 1990s, but for the high interest rates. Although home sales are starting to see some recovery, most experts are predicting that home prices have a while to go before they hit rock bottom. After all, by the time you do your research, find the property that’s right for you, and actually close escrow, who knows? Gentle Ben Bernanke has been careful not to ruffle any feathers on Capitol Hill since assuming his role as the chief caretaker of the U.S. economy. But during his first
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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