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• Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
  
  The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
  
  After two straight quarters when Indianapolis, Atlanta and Dallas led the nation in foreclosure rate, Detroit took over the top spot on the RealtyTrac Q3 2006 U.S. This trend corresponds to what RealtyTrac is seeing in the national real estate market where sales volume is slowing down — heading negative in many areas of the country — price appreciation has slowed to either single-digit rates or even negative rates in a few instances, and interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages are starting to reset to higher levels. Detroit Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- October 2006
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for at least the immediate future. Consumers' assessment of present-day conditions continues to grow more negative and suggests the economy remains stuck in low gear. According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showing annual declines.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
  
  Last year, 1,259,118 U.S. It’s true that foreclosures could have a negative impact on the housing market if they continue to increase at this rate.” Read the full report . Posted 01-29-2007 4:17 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
  
  And based on the latest available national economic data, indications for the remainder of 2006 through 2007 are consistent with RealtyTrac’s May 2006 U.S. The key factor of concern to real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and agents looking to get into the foreclosure business is interest rates. Esmael Adibi, executive director of the Anderson Center, the people who are going to be hurt the most by these adjustments, and Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year. Foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• ARM'd and Dangerous?
  
  Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. In a worst-case scenario, this could have adevastating effect on the housing markets, driving down housing pricesand creating a "negative equity" spiral of sorts, and leading tothe kind of massive increases in foreclosures that some of the gloomand doom types have been predicting. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages — with an emphasis on those originated between
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
  
  Consult with a real estate attorney or an experienced real estate broker because reinstatement laws vary from state to state. Option #3: Forbearance One of the most overlooked foreclosure options a borrower has is forbearance. You won’t save the house, but you do avoid the trauma of foreclosure and reduce the negative impact on your credit. Option #7: Bankruptcy Filing bankruptcy is not a permanent cure for foreclosure, but it can temporarily halt the foreclosure process. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  Late last week Nobel prize winning economist Robert Engle told attendees of a business seminar at the University of Albany that the U.S. According to the Chapman Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment, while responses to the survey were negative when it came to the current and future economic conditions (to the lowest level seen since the survey began in Q3 2002), consumers did answer positively to their future spending plans for big ticket items (although the uptick was only 5 points for Q1 2008 after a 16-point decline for Q4 2007). Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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