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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 . Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
  
  Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch. Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Citigroup came out with a press statement last week projecting that the company will suffer a 60 percent decline in third quarter income between 2006 and 2007. Countrywide. Citigroup.
  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. As the Associated Press reported Tuesday morning, this latest report by the Case-Shiller index, which tracks prices of single-family homes in 10 metropolitan areas around the country, suggests that prices have either been “growing more slowing or declining for 19 consecutive months.” When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  Schumer (D-NY) chaired the Joint Economic Committee in Washington, DC, on the topic, "Sheltering Neighborhoods from the Subprime Foreclosure Storm." Its suggestions: increase federal support for local foreclosure prevention programs; strengthen and reform the FHA; strengthen regulation of mortgage origination at the federal level; create a federal anti-predatory lending law that bans unfair and deceptive practices; establish borrowers ability to pay standards; and disclosure relating to alternative mortgage products must be enhanced. Denvers Foreclosure Task Force recently
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Clinton also wants the government to impose new disclosure requirements on mortgage brokers and curb their ability to dictate lending terms. “We need to act now with smart, practical solutions to strengthen our housing and mortgage markets,” Clinton told The Associated Press. “We Edwards also wants to ban certain fees, establish uniform broker licensing standards and start a national database for disciplinary infractions. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 Im from Washington state. Steve
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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