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Connecticut Foreclosure Crisis Appears to Be Worsening

BankUnited Fails in Year's Biggest Bust Wall Street Journal Federal regulators seized Florida's BankUnited FSB on Thursday, the biggest bank failure this year, one that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. estimates will cost its weakened insurance...

Published Fri, May 22 2009 10:00 AM by Octavion

Filed under: Bank-Owned/REOs, foreclosures, foreclosure deals

Treasury Plan to Deal With Toxic Assets Banks on Private Cash

Treasury Plan to Deal With Toxic Assets Banks on Private Cash Wall Street Journal Noting that the U.S. financial system "is still working against economic recovery," the Treasury Department Monday revealed details of its plan to address toxic...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 9:48 AM by Octavion

Filed under: Bank-Owned/REOs, Fannie Mae, Recession, housing, FDIC

Bernanke Outlines Steps to Avoid Future Crises

Bernanke Outlines Steps to Avoid Future Crises Wall Street Journal U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday outlined steps he thinks would help avert future financial crises, saying the time for such a longer-term discussion has come even...

Published Tue, Mar 10 2009 8:53 AM by Octavion

Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, foreclosures, foreclosure filings, FDIC, foreclosure deals

The Case for Walking Away, Short Sales v. Foreclosure

Housing Crisis Upside: Bargains for Everyone ABC News January 12, 2009 Real estate watchers have been saying it for months now: It's a buyer's market and it's only getting better. "It really is almost a national situation where we can...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 9:31 AM by Octavion

Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac, Walk Away, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Short Sale

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

When the British rock band The Clash penned their only number-one single “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” in 1981 for their album Combat Rock, they never imaged the song would have serious implications for the 2009 U.S. housing market. Today...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2008 11:27 AM by Octavion

Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Foreclosure Trends, foreclosures, Underwater, RealtyTrac, cash-strapped homeowners, Walk Away

Foreclosure Flood Cresting?

Could a flood of foreclosures that began to swell last year be close to cresting? That could be a first-blush interpretation of the numbers in the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The chart below shows how the annual rate of increase...

Published Fri, Sep 12 2008 2:00 AM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Foreclosure Trends, Real Estate Trends

July Foreclosure Report

U.S. foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28...

Published Thu, Aug 14 2008 2:00 AM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Foreclosure Trends

Is Eight Enough?

The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart). While there have been monthly fluctuations up and down during...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 2:00 AM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Foreclosure Trends, Real Estate Trends

May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent

Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 9:09 AM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs

Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?

U.S. foreclosure activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The 3 percent decrease may lead some to speculate that...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 1:59 AM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Bank-Owned/REOs, Foreclosure Trends, Real Estate Trends

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Connecticut Foreclosure Crisis Appears to Be Worsening

Treasury Plan to Deal With Toxic Assets Banks on Private Cash

Bernanke Outlines Steps to Avoid Future Crises

The Case for Walking Away, Short Sales v. Foreclosure

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Foreclosure Flood Cresting?

July Foreclosure Report

Is Eight Enough?

May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent

Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?