Florida, California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey were home to four out of ten distressed properties in the nation in January, an indication of how far east America's foreclosure nightmare has moved
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 20, 2013
While the rest of the nation's housing markets experience various levels of recovery, most markets in Florida seem to be relapsing to the heyday of the Foreclosure Era after a brief period of improvement.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Only half of many homes in America are listed for sale compared to the height of the housing boom in 2006 while median list prices are about the same as they were a year ago.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The current residential shadow inventory as of October 2012 fell to 2.3 million units, representing a supply of seven months. The October 2012 inventory level fell 12.3 percent from a year earlier, when the shadow inventory stood at 2.6 million units.
Continue reading...Monday, December 24, 2012
Inventories continued to fall to record lows in November and the age of the nation's listings inventory declined, but asking prices failed to rise as housing markets prepared for their annual wintertime hibernation.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Iinventories of foreclosures accumulated during the processing slowdown in the wake of the Robogate scandal are slowing shrinking, absorbed by demand so healthy that distress sales are actually rising faster on a national basis than full-priced homes.
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Completed foreclosures plunged 68 percent in September from a year ago yet the national foreclosure inventory hardly budged in 12 months, according to the latest CoreLogic report.
Continue reading...Sunday, October 7, 2012
Nominal house prices will continue to rise for the UFA 100, a broad based composite index of 100 US cities. Under current economic conditions commonly used house price indices will rise between 8.5 and 22 percent cumulatively over the next five years, but recovery will be slow for the larger metro areas in the Case-Shiller 10 city composite.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 4, 2012
The long-feared backlog of foreclosures that accumulated during the Robogate processing slowdown in 2010 and 2011 has declined further as the number of new foreclosures dwindled in August and completed foreclosures are being quickly absorbed in markets hungry for discount priced distress sales.
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Not all is going smoothly with the housing recovery as the summer ends. August data from Realtor.com shows that, though inventories are still falling, more and more markets are seeing prices go in the wrong direction, dropping below levels of a year ago.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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