29 Articles match "Houses","Housing","Washington"

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• Foreclosures Threaten U.S. House Prices
  
  A Look Ahead To the Great Resetting October 3, 2009, Washington Post Millions of adjustable-rate mortgages are going to reset in the coming years, possibly to higher interest rates, creating the prospect of a new round of foreclosures. About 10 percent...( read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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• Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse
  
  Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse The Washington Post The battered housing market appears to be on the mend, with sales climbing nationally and prices leveling off, even rising in some spots. But swelling unemployment and the related delinquencies...( read more
  Foreclosure Pulse - Thursday, July 30, 2009
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• Mortgage Reform Moves Ahead in Washington
  
  The changing tone in Washington can be seen with a 49-21 vote by the House Financial Services Committee on April 2 While huge banks may be too big to fail they're no longer too big to regulate.
  RealtyTrac Article Library - Thursday, April 30, 2009
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• Mortgage Reform Moves Ahead in Washington
  
  The changing tone in Washington can be seen with a 49-21 vote by the House Financial Services Committee on April 2 While huge banks may be too big to fail they're no longer too big to regulate.
  RealtyTrac Article Library - Thursday, April 30, 2009
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• Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms
  
  Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms Washington Post, September 9, 2009 The housing market faces the prospect of a new round of foreclosures as hundreds of thousands of risky home loans known as option adjustable-rate mortgages reset to significantly higher...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Trends foreclosures foreclosure wav
  Foreclosure Pulse - Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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• Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
  
  An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 At the top of the list were several states in the West and Northwest — Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
  
  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. The expectations of the California Realtors is less bleak than a new housing report, "Housing at the Tipping Point," released this month by Moody’s Economy.com that predicts sharp declines, some nearing 20 percent in many metropolitan areas of California, Arizona,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation. The projection of an accelerating subprime foreclosure rate is based on the expectation that house price appreciation will continue to slow. The study argues that subprime foreclosures will heavily impact the A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
  
  The article claims that "real estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have substantial damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C." And there are some real horror stories described by agents cited in the article: ferret droppings along the baseboards, walls pocked with holes, appliances and light fixtures ripped out, a trail of motor oil dripped on all the carpets throughout a house. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more and more homeowners forced out of their homes by foreclosure are turning to vandalism to lash out in some tangible way in a situation where they feel powerless.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
  
  time when politicians come out in droves to complain to the American public about pork-barrel spending and the massive red tape involved by increased Washington bureaucracy. Pollack, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank, told the Times that he thought the plan was “a reasonable project” during hard economic times that has historical precedent. Dodd is scheduled to hold a private meeting with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to discuss the state of the national economy and the deepening housing crisis. ForeclosurePulse.com will continue
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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