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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Why is someone who invests in real estate a “speculator” while corporations that Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 Moreover, the intensification of financial market turmoil is likely to exert additional restraint on spending, partly by further reducing the ability of households and businesses to obtain credit.” rdquo; In fact, during that speech Bernanke made it clear that the housing market In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . Its too early too tell if the relatively meek January numbers mean more distressed homeowners are staving off foreclosure thanks to increasingly pro-active lenders and government intervention , or if they just represent the first few raindrops of what will prove
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). which just last month was boasting an increase in loan production for January 2007 over numbers reported for the same month a year earlier. More shakeout is likely yet to come from this story as subprime lenders fall into an abyss of their own making, leaving legitimate The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began feeling
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. Of those, 32 buyers are watching the market pretty closely and looking for that bargain of the year. The other folks are waiting for the market to decline further. Since January, I have seen builders giving away their product just to get out from under the declining market and stop the payments With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bernanke: Free Market Can Curb Foreclosures
Bernanke talked extensively about how he believes the Federal Reserve Board should respond to rising foreclosures — specifically in the subprime mortgage market. His conclusion came down in favor of the free market: "Credit market innovations have expanded opportunities for many households. Markets can overshoot, but, ultimately, market forces also work to rein in excesses. In remarks he made yesterday in Chicago, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. For some, the self-correcting pullback may seem too late and too severe.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Short sales rising
While short sales remain a small segment of the residential real estate market, the increase bears watching for investors, buyers and real estate agents. Short sales are a sign that rising foreclosures are beginning to put a strain on the market. Nationwide, a total of 130,511 new foreclosure filings were reported in January, a 19 percent increase from the previous month Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today. million units economists had predicted and the largest monthly increase since January 2006. Fears Total housing starts rose 9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 million units in February, higher than the 1.4
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Downpour Continues in May
Foreclosure Market Report released today. households received a foreclosure filing during the month, the highest monthly foreclosure rate since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005. It's apparent from the report that a high inventory of foreclosures will continue to saddle the real estate market. Foreclosure activity continued its upward climb in May, increasing on a year-over-year basis for the 29th consecutive month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The report showed one in every 483 U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. That suggests that prices may have to fall further for sales to pick up and the overall housing market to recover. Housing starts tumble sharply New residential construction fell sharply in January, plunging 14.3 For real estate investors and home buyers, Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those living in markets that experienced the largest gains during the boom years and are now freefalling deep into the elevator shaft. percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
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 tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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