10 Articles match "Houses","July","Real Estate"

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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. U.S. Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent.
  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 Housing and Urban Development-approved counselor to make sure the would-be homeowner knows what he’s getting into. 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.
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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. Meanwhile, nervous lenders have responded by tightening their lending standards, making it more difficult and expensive for real estate investors and homeowners to borrow money, according to new survey conducted by the Federal Reserve in July. Wall Street analysts, main street investors, corporate executives and government bureaucrats all disagree on which mortgage company will be the next to trip and fall into bankruptcy.
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• MBA Numbers Mirror RealtyTrac Data:
  
  percent from July through September. Looking ahead to 2007, the mortgage association expects delinquencies and foreclosures to continue on the rise at a “modest increase” over the next several quarters “as the housing market bottoms.” Please feel free to comment on this article, or write an e-mail to us at: editor@foreclosurepulse.com . Posted 12-14-2006 9:22 AM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends , MB The number of delinquent mortgage payments and foreclosures jumped in recent months, according to a new survey released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association .
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• The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
  
  During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. During the housing boom, Wall Street began repackaging mortgage securities into instruments called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, and selling slices of these securities to investors at varying levels of risk. In July 2006, the ABX You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
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• Room Enough for a Catnap
  
  In this lackluster real estate market potential homebuyers have been sitting on the fence, observing from the sidelines as the number of foreclosures keeps going up and home prices keep plummeting. Representatives of animal control services noted that bobcats are not known to attack people, but this family probably came down the hill looking for food and this particular house — which has been vacant for at least six months — has a koi pond in the backyard. What are they waiting for? Hopefully the right time to pounce on a devastated market, timing the bottom of
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• Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
  
  The Fed’s July 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey , which covered 52 domestic banks and 21 U.S. But could the banks be overreacting with these tighter lending standards and thereby prolonging the housing slump? Or is this exactly what the market needs to ensure that home prices stay grounded in the reality of what homebuyers can truly afford? Posted 08-11-2008 3:47 PM by darenb Filed The results of a new survey released today by the Federal Reserve confirms what many people looking to buy or refinance already know — it’s hard to get approved for a loan.
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• A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
  
  While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market. That in turn allows lenders to start unloading foreclosure inventory, easing a heavy burden that has been weighing down the citys housing market. Different forces may be at work in Philadelphia, helping that citys foreclosure rate remain relatively low.
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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 their peak in July 2006. "There percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5
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• OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
  
  House of Representatives earlier this week, John M. Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S.
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