6 Articles match "Homes","Properties","Realty"

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• How to finance your foreclosure purchase? How about your IRA?
  
  If youre looking for creative ways to finance an investment in a foreclosure property, you may not need to look much further than your retirement account. A good article ran today in Lew Sichelmans Realty Q & A column in MarketWatch. Titled " Buying Investment Property Through Your IRA ," the article offers a wealth of information on how to use funds already in your IRA to invest in different types of properties. Among other things, Lew covers some of the tax strategies, limitations and regulations governing these types of purchases. While the article doesnt discuss
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Las Vegas
  
  Shari Springer Springer Realty The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported May 6 that 1,794 single-family homes were sold in April, a 21.4 percent jump over the 1,478 homes sold in March. Properties owned by banks and other lenders are accounting for more than half of all the homes sold each month. The sales are 29.9 percent higher than April 2007.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. Still, nearly a quarter According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Cape Coral, Fla.
  
  Your comments, questions and feedback are welcome. Gloria Tate Raso Realty, Inc. I work with buyers in my area; new jargon and issues are making buying a home more difficult than ever before. The opportunity to own a home at affordable prices has never been greater, but getting to the closing table is so much more difficult. Many of the best deals in Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of guest blog posts from members of the RealtyTrac Agent Network . The agents will be sharing their insights about what is happening on the ground in their local housing
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Can Financially-Troubled Homeowners Prevent Foreclosure?
  
  Lenders want to keep troubled borrowers in their homes and out of foreclosure. For lenders, foreclosures are costly — often entailing heavy payouts for legal fees, realty brokerage commissions, repairs, property taxes, maintenance and carrying costs. Today, more than ever, homeowners behind on their mortgage payments have many options to help them keep their families in their homes. When you miss several mortgage payments and your lender sends you a notice of default, where do you turn for relief? For the 112,210 Americans who entered the foreclosure pipeline
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective, SW Florida
  
  Eventually those who were unable to make obligations to their monthly payments had to surrender those properties back to the banks and now the banks need to unload them. Move forward two years and that is where we are today, when a young professional who might only make “starter pay” can now move to our area and buy a three bedroom, two bath home under $90,000 they can make since of their payment. I was talking with a group of teachers the other day and for the first time in a few years I didn't hear them say "We can't afford to take this position in Southwest Florida".
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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