6 Articles match "Properties","Real Estate","Realty"

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• How to finance your foreclosure purchase? How about your IRA?
  
  If youre looking for creative ways to finance an investment in a foreclosure property, you may not need to look much further than your retirement account. A good article ran today in Lew Sichelmans Realty Q & A column in MarketWatch. Titled " Buying Investment Property Through Your IRA ," the article offers a wealth of information on how to use funds already in your IRA to invest in different types of properties. Among other things, Lew covers some of the tax strategies, limitations and regulations governing these types of purchases. While the article doesnt discuss
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Las Vegas
  
  Shari Springer Springer Realty The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported May 6 that 1,794 single-family homes were sold in April, a 21.4 Properties owned by banks and other lenders are accounting for more than half of all the homes sold each month. The data is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and is subject to errors, omissions or revisions and is not warranted. percent jump over the 1,478 homes sold in March. The sales are 29.9
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
  
  Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. Still, nearly a quarter According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Can Financially-Troubled Homeowners Prevent Foreclosure?
  
  For lenders, foreclosures are costly — often entailing heavy payouts for legal fees, realty brokerage commissions, repairs, property taxes, maintenance and carrying costs. Remember, banks are in the money-lending business, not real estate. If you can’t reach your lender or they are making unreasonable financial demands from you, consider contacting a local community group. When you miss several mortgage payments and your lender sends you a notice of default, where do you turn for relief? For the 112,210 Americans who entered the foreclosure pipeline in September,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective: Cape Coral, Fla.
  
  Your comments, questions and feedback are welcome. Gloria Tate Raso Realty, Inc. I work with buyers in my area; new jargon and issues are making buying a home more difficult than ever before. Many of the best deals in our area are bank-owned properties. The homes sit for a very long time and the property continues to fall into disrepair. Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of guest blog posts from members of the RealtyTrac Agent Network . The agents will be sharing their insights about what is happening on the ground in their local housing market, particularly
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Local Market Perspective, SW Florida
  
  With real estate prices moving downward and more affordability coming back into our market it now makes since for young professionals to make the move from the cold and down to 85 degree weather in February. Eventually those who were unable to make obligations to their monthly payments had to surrender those properties back to the banks and now the banks need to unload them. I was talking with a group of teachers the other day and for the first time in a few years I didn't hear them say "We can't afford to take this position in Southwest Florida". This was
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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