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Foreclosures Decrease Slightly in February

For the 12th Straight Month over 300,000 properties received a foreclosure filing in February;

RealtyTrac® released its February 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 308,524 U.S. properties during the month of February, a decrease of 2 percent from the previous month but still 6 percent [...]

US Foreclosure Rate and Mortgage Delinquency Rate Continues to Rise

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A report released by First American CoreLogic shows the foreclosure rate in the US increased in January to 3.19 percent, an increase of 60.3 percent from a year ago when the national foreclosure rate was 1.99 percent.

The national rate for seriously delinquent mortgage’s (mortgages that are 90+ days delinquent) increased in January as [...]

Mortgage Delinquencies Jump Over 10 Percent

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Deceleration in Rise of Mortgage Delinquencies Short Lived

Back in July, 2009 when speaking in North Carolina President Barack Obama announced “we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession“. My thoughts then were that was very optimistic and I didn’t agree (for whatever that is worth). Since then [...]

U.S. Foreclosure Activity Decreases 10 Percent in January

Overall Activity Up 15 Percent From January 2009, REOs Up 31 Percent From January 2009; More Than 300,000 Properties Receive Foreclosure Filings for 11th Straight Month

RealtyTrac® today released its January 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 315,716 U.S. properties during [...]

Las Vegas, Cape Coral, Merced Foreclosure Rates Highest Among Major Metro Areas in 2009

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Top 20 Cities Are From California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona; Utah, Illinois, Oregon, Idaho Cities Indicate Foreclosure Problem Is Spreading.

Today RealtyTrac® released its year-end 2009 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report which shows that cities in four Sun Belt states accounted for all top 20 foreclosure rates in 2009 among metro areas with a population [...]

November Foreclosure Rate in U.S. Up 77 Percent from a year ago

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The foreclosure rate in the U.S. for the month of November, 2009 was 3.09 percent, a 77.6 percent increase from November, 2008 when the rate was 1.74 percent according to a report by First American CoreLogic.

In addition, the report showed that the number of borrowers that are seriously delinquent on their

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FHA Waives Anti-Flipping Rule

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In an effort to “stabilize home values and improve conditions in communities where foreclosure activity is high” FHA just announced a temporary waiver of requirements of 24 CFR 203.37a(b)(2).  For those of you that don’t have your copy of the Code of Federal Regulations handy, this is referring to what is generally known [...]

Record number of foreclosures in 2009

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December’s foreclosure actions mark tenth straight month of over 300,000 notices and drive the 2009 total to over 3.9 Million notices on over 2.8 Million properties.

This morning RealtyTrac® released its year-end U.S. Foreclosure Market Reporttm for the year 2009.

The report shows a total of 3,957,643 foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and [...]

Foreclosures and Short Sales Dominated the U.S. Housing Market in 2009

It’s not surprising, that according to Zip Realty foreclosures and short sales dominated the U.S. housing market last year and were the driving force for the real estate roller coaster ride of 2009. 

Zip Realty broke down what they considered were the nine major real estate stories for 2009 and they are:

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Think that a Foreclosed Home is the Best Deal in Town? Think Again.

Ten signs that trouble might be just around the corner.

It’s easy pickings out there for many potential home buyers. Housing prices are at their lowest in more than a decade, inventories are high, analysts are predicting a new wave of foreclosures and the government is offering two substantial tax credits for which many home buyers [...]

Five Indicted in Foreclosure Rescue and Mortgage Fraud Scheme

Department of Justice Press Release

Scam Involved Lawyers, Mortgage Brokers, and More Than $14.6 Million in Loans

PHILADELPHIA—A 15-count indictment was filed today against five defendants charged in a $14.6 million mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in at least 35 fraudulent mortgage loans, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI Janice K. [...]

Number of consumers interested in investing in real estate doubles since March

Dennis Norman

Investors…Have you noticed more competition out there lately?  Particularly when trying to buy foreclosures? 

If so, it is probably not just your imagination.  According to a survey conducted by Move.Com, 25.3 percent of home buyers are looking for foreclosures and forty two percent of those buyers say their purchase is for investment.  So that [...]

Foreclosures in third quarter 2009 increase 23 percent from a year ago

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This morning RealtyTrac® released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Reporttmfor the third quarter of 2009, which shows that foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions) were reported on 937,840 properties in the third quarter which represents a 5 percent increase from the prior quarter and an increase of almost 23 percent from [...]

Foreclosures UP…Mortgage Delinquencies UP…No end in site

Dennis Norman

The foreclosure rate in the U.S. for the month of August, 2009 was 2.86 percent, a 73.3 percent increase from August, 2008 when the rate was 1.65 percent according to a report released yesterday by First American CoreLogic.

In addition, the report showed that the number of borrowers that are seriously delinquent on their [...]

Short Sales increase 45 percent in 2nd quarter; Foreclosures up by 23 percent

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Many investors see short-sales and foreclosures as opportunities to make money in this challenging real estate market.  If you are one of them, or agree, rest assured, there are plenty more “opportunities” coming.

According to a report just released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the number of short sales and foreclosures continue to increase.

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Has the real estate market hit bottom? Is it time to buy?

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By: Dennis Norman

Recent reports on the real estate market have been pretty encouraging and, in fact, many are suggesting the real estate market has hit bottom or is even beginning a recovery.  Some of the current stories I’ve seen are:

Stocks spike on recovery hopes- CNNMoney.Com - ”The report is basically telling us that the [...]

Foreclosures; No end in site

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By: Dennis Norman

Foreclosures have been providing a steady supply of homes to the investor market for a while now and it appears foreclosures will not slow down anytime soon.  There are many companies that track foreclosure activity as well as provide investors with information on foreclosures and while their take on things varies [...]

Foreclosures UP 32 percent in July from a year ago

By: Dennis Norman

There just seems to be no end in site for the sickening numbers of foreclosures we are seeing take place in the housing market.  While, from an investors standpoint, it seems like a “positive” in that foreclosures often present a good opportunity for an investor to purchase property at below-market prices however it’s really [...]

Where are the best investments in California and Florida?

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By: Dennis Norman

Today SmartZip, Inc. released it’s first release of the SmartZip Top 10 Markets™, a list of top-rated cities most likely to yield above-average investment returns over the next ten years.  The markets are hand-picked by SmartZip’s analysts in conjunction with local market experts. 

 

Presently SmartZip, which just launched its public Beta site in [...]

Foreclosures on the rise

By: Dennis Norman

According to a report issued by RealtyTrac(R), there were 1,905,723 foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions)  on 1,528,364 U.S. properties in the first six months of 2009, a 9% increase in total properties from the previous six months and a 15% increase in total properties from the first six months of [...]

New law gives tenants in foreclosed homes additional protection

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By: Dennis Norman

If you buy a foreclosed home that has an existing tenant in it you need to be sure you are aware of and comply with  provisions of the “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009″.  The act went into effect on May 20, 2009 and provides the following protections for the existing tenant:

For [...]

Foreclosures and Short-Sales on the rise

By: Dennis Norman

Today the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of the Thrift Supervision (OTS) released their mortgage metrics report for 1st quarter 2009.  

The report shows foreclosures continued to increase during the first quarter of this year.  However the report also shows a significant increase in short-sales which I discussed yesterday [...]

Foreclosure activity finally decreases 6% in May

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By: Dennis Norman

According to a report issued by RealtyTrac(R), foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions or REO’s) were reported on 321,480 U.S. properties for May.  This is a decrease of 6% from April but is still up nearly 18% from a year ago.

The states of Nevada, California and Florida continue [...]

Foreclosures continue at record rate; a new one every 13 seconds

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By: Dennis Norman

According to a report issued by the Center for Responsible lending, the number of homes that have had foreclosure proceedings begun on this year broke the 1 million mark this past weekend.  The Center for Responsible lending  website has a rather depressing “foreclosure meter” that shows, in real time (sort of), [...]

New Study Says Price Declines and Foreclosures Not as Severe as Indicated

By:  Dennis Norman

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As anxious as I am to finally see something positive come out about the housing market I am still very skeptical when I hear about reports like I referred to in the headline for this post.

Therefore, like an investigative reporter, I went searching for this report, find out who was behind it [...]

Foreclosures still on the rise…Investors be cautious

By: Dennis Norman

Today Bloomberg.com reported that, based upon data from RealtyTrac Inc., foreclosures in the US were up 81% last year with a total of 2.3 million foreclosures.  According to RealtyTrac Inc this is the largest number of foreclosures they have documented in the four years they have been tracking foreclosures. 

RealtyTrac Inc data indicates Nevada has the [...]