4 Articles match "Phoenix","Properties","Standards"

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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  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 . percent), followed by Phoenix (-26.5 Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor’s. “There rdquo; According to Case-Shiller, the weakest market in the country is currently Las Vegas, followed closely by Miami and Phoenix. Taken altogether, these reports should be seen as good tidings for real estate investors as well as home buyers who are interested in mining the foreclosure marketplace for bargain properties. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. What does all this mean to anyone looking to the nation’s foreclosure market for a home purchase? It means that there has never been a better time in recent history to get off the fence and buy that primary residence or investment property you’ve been waiting for. When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little 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 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 Home
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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