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 as policy makers address the worst crisis since the...
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 find you at least one good deal almost everywhere...
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, many struggling homeowners, drowning under the strain...
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 in all three foreclosure actions tracked in...
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 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults...
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 this time period, the quarterly numbers consistently...
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 in the press release announcing the numbers. "It...
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 the upward trend in foreclosure activity may be nearing...
Foreclosure activity continued its upward climb in May, increasing on a year-over-year basis for the 29th consecutive month, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The report showed one in every 483 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing during the month, the...
The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the...