RealtyTrac member Susan Coake and her husband, Rob, got a great bargain for a home on a sprawling spread in Southern California's wine country after keeping track of the home using RealtyTrac's daily foreclosure property email alerts, which let them know when to pounce on the property and make...
RealtyTrac Senior Vice President Rick Sharga will be hosting a 30-minute FREE webinar at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) today, May 3, 2011, covering the basics of buying a foreclosure and doing a brief live walkthrough of the RealtyTrac subscription website. There will be a question-and-answer session with...
In Foreclosure Settlement Talks With Banks, Predictions of a Long Process March 30, 2011, New York Times Little was settled in the first round of foreclosure settlement talks. The nation’s top mortgage servicers met Wednesday in Washington with the attorneys general from five states as well as...
A Look at Case-Shiller, by Metro Area February 23, 2010, Wall Street Journal The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home-price index, a closely watched gauge of U.S. home prices, was mostly flat in December from a month earlier. The index declined 3.1% from a year earlier. On a month-to-month basis prices...
New Wave of Foreclosures by End of 2010 is Feared February16, 2010, Los Angeles Times About 4 million U.S. homeowners are 90 days or more delinquent on their loans or in foreclosure proceedings, Moody's Economy.com says. A federal loan modification program is helping a relative few. Experts fear...
A new survey conducted on behalf of RealtyTrac and Trulia by Harris Interactive was released today, and among other interesting tidbits, it shows that 65 percent of those surveyed said they expected a discount of at least 30 percent when purchasing a foreclosure property. That's actually a realistic...