5 Articles match "Houses","Los Angeles","Sales"

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• California Home Sales and Prices Inch Up
  
  California Home Sales and Prices Inch Up October 16, 2009, Los Angeles Times California's housing market showed more signs of recovery in September, as the median sales price rose nearly 1 percent from August, to $251,000, a real estate research firm...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: foreclosure rates defaults foreclosur
  Foreclosure Pulse - Friday, October 16, 2009
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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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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  14, 2007 for $18,356, followed by a Notice of Trustees Sale being recorded on March 19, 2008. At the time of sale Richardson allegedly owed her lender, Washington Mutual, more than $578,000 thanks to the 100 percent financing used to purchase the home and the additional fees and costs incurred by foreclosure. The home’s former owner also claims that she kicked in $15,000 towards Richardson's closing costs, according to the Los Angeles Times . Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 Wall Street was happy to hear that existing home sales were up nearly 3 percent between January and February. 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 Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  percent decline and Los Angeles with a 26.2 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. Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Posted 09-30-2008 11:27 Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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