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Don't Dump Investors
After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. The Census Bureau says that at the end of 2007 there were 128 million housing units in the U.S. Imagine the cost of housing if we discouraged real estate investment. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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 just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. 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?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct a short sale, the foreclosing lender has to agree to it, essentially agreeing to accept less money than it is owed on the loan secured by the house. A short sale is not a vehicle normally seen during a seller’s market when multiple offers are lining up at the door competing with each other for the house. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . Housing starts are expected
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
And with increased inventory levels and longer marketing times around the country, the prospect of distressed homeowners being able to bail themselves out is statistically against them. “If If you all of a sudden have inventory to sell and the length of time to sell goes up, people with problems are not going to have the ability to move the asset quickly,” Saccacio said. “Sometimes Please Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
But for many U.S. homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. Last year, the tumbling housing market claimed such large builders as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S. 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 million properties in one month can have a significant impact on a housing market that is registering about 5 million existing home sales for the entire year . "Although 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
Given today’s economic climate, however, there exists a connection between foreclosures and hurricanes that poses a potentially even greater threat to the health and safety of U.S. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so great as to generate real concern for the oncoming hurricane season this year. In April, The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
Panic is spreading in the U.S. Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure activity on Main Street. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: South Carolina
am referring to the investors who over-extended themselves with speculation, the second home buyers who bought more than they could afford, and the buyers who were talked into adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) loans so they could buy more home than they could afford. A lot of foreclosures here in South Carolina are also manufactured houses. We have a 22-month inventory (it is going down slightly) of active listings on the market right now, but we are hoping that will be dropping since summer is here now. We are seeing more and more foreclosures come onto the market at this time here in South Carolina.
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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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. With this second straight quarterly expansion in the U.S. One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. The Census Bureau says that at the end of 2007 there were 128 million housing units in the U.S. Imagine the cost of housing if we discouraged real estate investment. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity.
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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