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Dennis Norman A report published by Lender Processing Services (LPS) analyzing homeowner’s performance on their mortgages as of June 2010 shows some encouraging news; there are signs that the foreclosure and mortgage delinquency rates are stabilizing, albeit at very elevated levels. Tweet This Post
Dennis Norman In a report just issued by Radarlogic there is some good news for the housing industry as in the report Michael Feder, President and CEO of Radar Logic, states “the evidence continues to support the view that housing has stabilized and is in the early stages of recovery.” However, the report also reminds [...] 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: Tweet This Post Unemployment Remains Main Cause of Delinquencies The second quarter of this year saw mortgage delinquencies reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association hit the highest level since they began keep track of the data almost 40 years ago back in 1972. Unfortunately that record didn’t stand long and was broken by the mortgage delinquency rate for third [...] Dennis Norman The percent of American home owners with mortgages in a negative equity position fell to 21 percent in the third quarter of this year, down from 23 percent in the second quarter, as home values stabilized in the short term and more underwater homeowners lost their homes to foreclosure, according to the third quarter [...] 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 [...] Dennis Norman 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 [...] Dennis Norman 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), [...] The report shows the percentage of performing mortgages for the 4th quarter of 2008 had dropped to 89.95% down from 93.33% at the end of the first quarter. By: Dennis Norman Dennis Norman 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 [...] 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 [...] By: Dennis Norman
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision issed a report on mortgage performance which showed an increase in delinquencies, foreclosures in process, and other actions leading to home forfeiture but offered a little ray of light with a drop in “newly initiated” foreclosures by 2.6% from the [...] By: Dennis Norman In part one of this story I gave some history of sources I have found for “good deals” in my 29 years as a real estate investor. I also talked about how as times changed those good sources went away. I left off with the S&L Crisis of the 80′ that resulted in [...] By: Dennis Norman As I jump around the interenet reading various blogs, news articles and the like about investing in real estate it amazes me how many people out there are looking for REO’s (a label banks and other lenders give the property they take back in foreclosure, Real Estate Owned) as if they are the [...] |
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