13 Articles match "Homes","September","US"

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• Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fell Less Than Forecast
  
  Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fell Less Than Forecast September 29, 2009, Bloomberg News Home values in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas declined less than forecast in the year ended in July, a sign the housing slump that led to the worst recession in seven...( read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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• New-Home Sales Increased 0.7% to 429,000 Rate in August
  
  New-Home Sales Increased 0.7% to 429,000 Rate in August September 25, 2009, Bloomberg News Sales of new U.S. homes climbed in August to the highest level in almost a year as builders cut prices at a record pace to compete with the foreclosures that are...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Trends first-time homebuyer foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, September 25, 2009
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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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• Major Banks Still Grappling With Foreclosures
  
  Whitney Predicts 25% Home Price Plunge Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009 U.S. home prices–which have already tumbled nearly a third from the 2006 peak–could plunge by another 25% as high unemployment levels continue, according...( Too Gloomy? read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, September 11, 2009
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• Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says
  
  Housing Crash to Resume on 7 Million Foreclosures, Amherst Says September 24, 2009, Bloomberg The crash in U.S. home prices will probably resume because about 7 million properties that are likely to be seized by lenders have yet to hit the market, Amherst...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Trends foreclosures foreclosure filings foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Thursday, September 24, 2009
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• Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
  
  RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. The report also shows a national foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 U.S. Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New Illinois Housing Law Draws 2nd Suit
  
  The suits — filed by eight consumers and the real estate community — seek to halt the implementation of Illinois House Bill 4050, which took effect September 1. "It's a discriminatory law," said Julie Santos, a Chicago Realtor and co-chair of the Coalition to Rescind HB 4050, a group formed from several community organizations who are collecting signatures in an attempt to repeal the law. "If Under the law, if a borrower’s FICO credit score is 620 or less, a borrower must get financial counseling sessions from a U.S. Two law suits have been filed against a controversial Illinois law that mandates financial counseling for certain consumers obtaining mortgages or refinancing loans in 10 ZIP code areas in Chicago.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Can Financially-Troubled Homeowners Prevent Foreclosure?
  
  For the 112,210 Americans who entered the foreclosure pipeline in September, the answer is simple: Talk to your lender at the first sign of trouble. Lenders want to keep troubled borrowers in their homes and out of foreclosure. Even the U.S. When you miss several mortgage payments and your lender sends you a notice of default, where do you turn for relief? Call immediately and ask to speak with the “loss mitigation” specialist.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
  
  It’s not just average Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure these days. Even rich and famous athletes who earned millions of dollars during their careers can be subjected to the emotional highs and lows of losing a home. Two recent cases in point: record-setting baseball player Jose Canseco , and former NBA star Latrell Sprewell . Canseco, who first came to prominence as a right fielder with the Oakland Athletics back in the 1980s, has decided to walk away Canseco owed Washington Mutual more than $2.5 million on the 7,300 square foot mansion with four bedrooms
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Still, the bottom line is no matter how you divide up the data, you can expect foreclosure levels to increase over the next few years as the various forms of adjustable mortgages utilized to fund purchases of more home than most people could afford ratchet up their interest rates. In fact a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal Finance poll revealed that 38 percent of adults have used a “creative or payment option mortgage” in a home purchase in 2006, a 5 percent increase from 2005. The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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