12 Articles match "Houses","Michigan","Real Estate"

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• Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
  
  Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. Since January 2006 Michigan has ranked in RealtyTrac’s top 10 states with the greatest foreclosure activity in the nation, most of that time maintaining a position in the top five. Lights! Camera!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Burning Down the House
  
  For many real estate investors, the foreclosure market is smoking. Foreclosures nationwide are heating up, especially in once-supercharged real estate bubbles like Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. But in Michigan, where foreclosures are widespread and a hot market for real estate investors, people are burning down the homes to avoid foreclosure . . . literally! Last month, a Michigan homeowner in foreclosure was arrested for allegedly setting her three-year old Grand Rapids home on fire to collect the insurance money, according to the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Obtaining a Foreclosure List
  
  Information like list price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, property size, photos, and sometimes even high-tech mapping are included. Why Free Foreclosure Lists May Be Risky Finding a foreclosure list that homebuyers and real estate investors can depend on can be really challenging. Price: $0.00 Know how much your house is worth? Obtaining a Foreclosure List Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Obtaining an up-to-date foreclosure list thats reliable can now be done fast and easy with internet access. A
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
  
  Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of 2005, down from a 10.06 percent increase in the second quarter and down from a high of a 13.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Priced to Foreclose
  
  The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. Many of the states near thebottom of that list -- namely Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Texas and Georgia -- also appeared among the top 10 on RealtyTracs list of state foreclosure rates in the first quarter. A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
  
  percent reported in the first quarter of 2007. The trend lines are even closer when looking at the RealtyTrac first quarter foreclosure rate (0.515 percent of total housing units with a foreclosure filing during the quarter), which was up 21 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 — exactly the same percentage increase as the MBA foreclosure rate — and up 109 percent from the first quarter of 2007. Both the RealtyTrac and MBA reports identified Ohio and Michigan as states where foreclosure activity decreased in the first quarter. The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
  
  Add mounting mortgage payments to the credit card debt and a gloomier picture emerges for overextended borrowers — in part because so many homeowners are now trapped by payments that are about to soar, even as the real estate market slumps. Among the hardest-hit states were California, Florida, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  Under "normal" circumstances, wedprobably look at the Midwest rates and chalk them up tohigher-than-average unemployment rates (a very strong predictor offoreclosure rates) and lower-than-average house appreciation ratescoupled with weak housing demand. And it probably accounts in large part for whats happeningin states like Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 p=568
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
  
  Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff. Trenton, NJ — Opening Bid: $83,700 MIDWEST REGION SEMIFINAL With bank-owned houses cheaper than a used car in Detroit, Michigan and Columbus, Ohio, why not buy the whole block? SW, Albuquerque, NM — Opening Bid: This weekend, as the best college basketball players square off, RealtyTrac will tip off its Sweet 16 foreclosure list. EAST REGION SEMIFINAL The dollar goes a long way in Pittsburgh.
  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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