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• Miami Blogger Sparks $25 Million Lawsuit
  
  A Miami real estate agent and blogger was sued last week by a real estate developer for $25 million, according to the Miami Herald . Developer Tibor Hollo filed a defamation lawsuit against Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga, who claimed in his popular blog — Miami Condo Investments — that Hollo went bankrupt in the 1980s and that one of his current South Florida developments could be headed for bankruptcy, according to Inman News. “My My opinion is that this development is doomed,” wrote Lechuga on Jan. 10, predicting on the blog that at least
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• $15.75 million pre-foreclosure purchase of Don Johnson's home
  
  A last-minute pre-foreclosure sale last week allowed actor Don Johnsonof televisions "Miami Vice," to avoid foreclosure on his Aspen, Colo.,estate, estate, according to an article in the Aspen Daily News . "Don Johnson may have saved his Woody Creek ranch frombeing sold Wednesday at a foreclosure auction, but it was because thecelebrity unloaded his 17-acre property Monday for $15.75 million,according to records at the Pitkin County Clerk & Recorders Office. "An attorney for Johnson said Friday that a portion of the sale proceedswent toward paying off the alleged default to New York-based lenderD.E.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  ldquo;These substantial home price declines bring positive and negative news,” said OFHEO Director James B. To prospective home buyers who have been shut out of homeownership because of affordability constraints, these declines may be welcome news, as are continued low mortgage rates.” rdquo; According to Case-Shiller, the weakest market in the country is currently Las Vegas, followed closely by Miami and Phoenix. Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7
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• Local Market Perspective: Seattle, Wash.
  
  The Seattle market is not what you see on the news, hear on the radio, or read in the paper in terms of the rest of the nation’s foreclosure woes. It makes a transaction so much less of a nightmare, and in a few years you will have built yourself a great real estate portfolio in one of the best cities in the United States. Contact Nova Ukariha Shank or post comments below. Posted 05-27-2008 8:40 AM by NovaS Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  Las Vegas and Miami had the greatest price drops (both down 19.3 To add insult to injury The Conference Board released the news that its monthly Consumer Confidence Index revealed a lack of consumer confidence about the nation’s present situation and future prospects for economic recovery. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  said there will be more troubles for upscale flippers, high-end prime borrowers, developers and lenders. “Upscale foreclosures are a growing trend,” said McCabe, pointing to the overflow of some 30,000 unsold beachfront Miami condominiums. “The In a lot of the bubble markets — like Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Orange County and the Inland Empire in California — we are going to see an increase in the number of high-end foreclosures in relatively wealthy communities. 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;Little positive news can be found when cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix report annual declines as large as -29.9% quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) 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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