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Foreclosure Activity Edges Higher in January By Alex Veiga, Associated Press, Feb 16, 2012 Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out foreclosure-abuse claims. Foreclosures...
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Foreclosures Made Up 31 Pct. of Home Sales in 2Q By Derek Kravitz, Associated Press, Aug. 25, 2011 Foreclosures made up roughly one-third of all home sales this spring. While that's a smaller share of sales from the previous quarter, it's six times the percentage of foreclosures in a healthy...
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RealtyTrac reports: Foreclosure Homes Account for 31 Percent of All U.S. Sales in Q2 2011 The U.S. Foreclosure Sales Report™ showed that sales of homes that were in some stage of foreclosure or bank owned accounted for 31 percent of all U.S. residential sales in the second quarter of 2011, down...
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RealtyTrac's Sharga Says Housing Market Hasn't Bottomed June 21, 2011, Bloomberg Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, discusses the outlook for the US housing market. Sharga speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." Banks Will Be Sued If Foreclosure...
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RealtyTrac: Sales of Foreclosed Homes 'Astronomically High' in Q1 May 26, 2011, Associated Press Sales of bank-owned homes constituted a slightly larger percentage of all sales in the first quarter versus the end of last year, according to market researcher RealtyTrac. Also see: CNN Money , Bloomberg...
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Foreclosure Filings Hit 3-year Low, Report Shows April 14, 2011, Reuters U.S. foreclosure filings fell in the first quarter to the lowest level since early 2008 amid an ongoing backlog following last year's halt in activity, according to a RealtyTrac report on Thursday. Default notices, scheduled...
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Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Rose 2.1% in February March 28, 2011, Bloomberg A gain in the number of Americans signing contracts to buy previously owned homes in February failed to make up for the ground lost a month earlier, a sign the U.S. housing market has yet to join the economic recovery...
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Foreclosure Filings Plunge in November December 16, 2010, Reuters Foreclosure filings plunged in November from the month before as mortgage companies being scrutinized for court processing errors halted activity, according to a RealtyTrac report on Thursday. Homeowners received 262,339 notices of default...
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A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area November 30, 2010, Wall Street Journal The S&P/Case-Shiller national home price index, which is released on a quarterly basis, posted a 2% decline from the previous quarter and are 1.5% below year-earlier levels. On a monthly basis, 18 cities notched declines...
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REOs Fall Amid 'Robo-Signing' Stall November 11, 2010, Inman News After hitting a record high in September, bank repossessions fell 9 percent in October -- likely the result of foreclosure freezes by some major lenders, according to a report by foreclosure data site RealtyTrac. Total foreclosure...