Category Archives: Foreclosure

Trulia says more foreclosures coming. Do you know how to sell a 203K home?

Real estate research and marketing firm Trulia said employment figures improved slightly at the end of 2011, making it possible for more borrowers to pay their mortgages next year.  While Trulia says this trend could reduce 2012 delinquencies, the company … Continue reading

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REO Properties Are Moving Faster

Homebuyer demand appears to be intensifying, especially among lower-priced REO properties, according to the Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey released Tuesday. Time-on-market for move-in ready REO was just 10.1 weeks in November, the lowest in 15 months, according to … Continue reading

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BofA Develops Rental Program

Bank of America is looking at a new program to rent a home back to the borrower after foreclosure.  ”There are programs that we are quite interested in,” said Ron Sturzenegger, who leads the bank’s legacy asset servicing division. “We … Continue reading

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Las Vegas No Longer Top Foreclosure City, Hello Stockton Calif.

Las Vegas is no longer the top foreclosure city in the country. A new Nevada law that went into effect in October caused many mortgage servicers to pause the foreclosure process, knocking Vegas off the spot it held for 22 … Continue reading

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Foreclosure Timeline Lengthened 140 Days Over Last Year

Mortgages backing homes that were foreclosed on in September had been delinquent for an average of 624 days, according to Lender Processing Services (LPS). That’s up from 484 days in September of last year, just before the processing issues surfaced. … Continue reading

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Years of Foreclosures Ahead

The housing market faces several more years with 800,000 to 1 million new foreclosed properties per year, according to Rick Sharga, an executive vice president with Carrington Mortgage Services.  Sharga recently left RealtyTrac, where he helped build a network that … Continue reading

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Barclays Expects a ‘Triple-Dip’ in Home Prices

The analysts at Barclays Capital say a “triple-dip” in home prices will likely materialize by early next year. The term “triple-dip” emerged in a Clear Capital report a couple of weeks ago, and Barclays says its analysis corroborates the idea. … Continue reading

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Shadow Inventory Holding Back Recovery

Although the drop in default rates shows promise, the amount of shadow inventory still creates a dark loom over the future of housing prices, according to latest results from Standard & Poor’s U.S. Residential Performance Index.  The shadow inventory of … Continue reading

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Banks Holding Property Will Hurt Sales

All told, the nation’s biggest banks own more than 872,000 homes as a result of the groundswell in foreclosures, almost twice as many as when the financial crisis began in 2007, according to RealtyTrac, a real estate data provider.  In … Continue reading

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OUCH! Home Prices Have Officially Double-Dipped!!

The national home price index from Clear Capital has officially entered double-dip territory.  The company says data through the end of April has pushed its reading of national home prices 0.7 percent below the prior low recorded in March 2009, … Continue reading

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