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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

A Recovering Market without Govt Intervention

Free-market purists have to love the lead in The Washington Post story Friday about the real estate market in Prince William County, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C.

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Published Mon, Oct 20 2008 12:15 PM by darenb

Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures, Foreclosure Auctions, Foreclosure Trends, Real Estate Trends

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

FDIC Selling Off Detroit Inventory

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is having no trouble keeping busy these days. In fact the agency’s head just announced this week that it has adjusted its estimate of how many of the nation’s banks are seriously in trouble of going out of business this year upward from 90 in Q1 2008 to 117 now.

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Published Tue, Sep 2 2008 8:45 AM by joelc

Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions

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

‘Extreme’ Dream Gone Bust

Three years ago Patricia and Milton Harper received a gift courtesy of reality television. ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition came to the rescue, demolishing the Harper’s old run down home with a faulty septic tank and replacing it with a 5,300 square-foot, two-story dream home in Lake City, Georgia.

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Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 3:30 PM by joelc

Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions, Foreclosure Trends, Real Estate 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

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