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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal sagely advises that the answer is "For some people, yes. quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. 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
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Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. Overall,the foreclosure rate in the Los Angeles region has doubled sinceOctober, according to RealtyTrac Inc., At the same time, thesteep rise in housing prices over the last few years has created amassive amount of equity in many properties — a tempting target forswindlers. The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
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History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
formed in the 1930s to deal with foreclosures, the new agency would assist homeowners in refinancing their subprime mortgages — many of which are now resetting at much higher interest rates, resulting, in many cases, in foreclosures, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times . Still, the Wall Street Journal calls the plan a “political long shot.” At least one industry analyst, Alex J. It’s a presidential election year. A
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  • Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
    An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud. Overall,the foreclosure rate in the Los Angeles region has doubled sinceOctober, according to RealtyTrac Inc., At the same time, thesteep rise in housing prices over the last few years has created amassive amount of equity in many properties — a tempting target forswindlers. The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
    formed in the 1930s to deal with foreclosures, the new agency would assist homeowners in refinancing their subprime mortgages — many of which are now resetting at much higher interest rates, resulting, in many cases, in foreclosures, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times . Still, the Wall Street Journal calls the plan a “political long shot.” At least one industry analyst, Alex J. It’s a presidential election year. A
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
    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 from his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino, Calif. Neighbors reportedly call it “The Hotel” because it was the biggest house in the neighborhood. 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
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  • Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
    Wall Street Journal article today reports that many buyers are already doing that in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., Still, on a yearly basis existing home sales were down almost 24 percent from February 2007, and the national median sales price for all housing types for the month was down 8.2 percent), while Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tampa, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. 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 Wall
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  • As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
    percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal sagely advises that the answer is "For some people, yes. quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. 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
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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