All Posts Tagged With: "RealtyTrac"
Foreclosures Rise In Most Metro Areas
Foreclosures continue to plague American cities. The latest data from RealtyTrac shows that shows 154 of the 206 U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of 200,000 or more posted year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity even while foreclosure activity decreased in nine of the 10 metros with the highest foreclosure rates.
Four states — Florida, California, Nevada and [...]
Foreclosure Trends Show Little Love In 2010
Foreclosure filings dropped 7 percent in June when compared with a year ago, but that’s good news only in a relative sense. Once again, foreclosure filings topped 300,000 in a single month. According to RealtyTrac June was the 16th month in a row we’ve seen such a high level of foreclosure activity.
Other results from RealtyTrac [...]
Quarterly Foreclosures Down 33% From 2009
Foreclosure activity in the first quarter was down 33% when compared with a year ago but huge discounts remain with pre-foreclosure (14.77%), foreclosure (26.7%) and lender-owned properties (34.04%), according to RealtyTrac.
The RealtyTrac numbers — which are used by HUD as part of its monthly housing scorecard — show that savvy buyers are purchasing large [...]
Foreclosures Level Out, Still Top 300,000 Per Month
It’s one of those good news/bad news deals. RealtyTrac reports that for the month of May foreclosure filings rose less than 1 percent when compared with the same period last year. The bad news: Foreclosure filings were sent to 322,920 properties.
“The numbers in May continued and confirmed the trends we noticed in April: overall foreclosure [...]
Foreclosure Buying & Mortgage Walk Aways More Acceptable, Says New Poll
A new poll from RealtyTrac and Trulia.com shows that a growing number of home buyers are considering the purchase of a foreclosed home — and are willing to talk away from the one they’ve got.
At this time 78 percent of U.S. adults believe there are downsides to buying foreclosed properties compared to 85 percent in [...]
Foreclosures Show First Annual Decline Since ‘05
For the first time since 2005 foreclosure levels have declined on an annual basis. The latest figures for April show that foreclosure activity — default notices, bank repossessions and foreclosure auctions — dropped 9 percent when compared with March, according to RealtyTrac. More importantly, the 333,837 foreclosure filings in April were down 2 percent from [...]
13May2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
January 2010 Foreclosures Grow, Says RealtyTrac
More than 315,000 foreclosure notices went out in January, according to RealtyTrac, the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties. This figure is up 15 percent from January 2009.
“Foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 315,716 U.S. properties during the month,” according to the company.
RealtyTrac also reports that [...]
2009 Metro Foreclosures Show Spreading Problems
The nation’s metro-area foreclosures continue to be concentrated in California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona — but homeowner losses are spreading to other cities as well. On the good side, a number of metro areas show declining foreclosure rates.
Figures for 2009 by RealtyTrac, the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, show that of the 20 metro [...]
Foreclosure Filings Near 4 Million In 2009, Worst Since Depression
With the worst results in recent history, year-end figures from RealtyTrac.com show that 3,957,643 foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 2,824,674 U.S. properties in 2009. The 2009 total is 21 percent higher than 2008, itself a record year.
The bloated foreclosure numbers are in large measure a [...]
RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Filings Ebb For 4th Month
The latest report from RealtyTrac.com tells us that 306,627 U.S. properties received foreclosure notices in November. This is the fourth month in a row that the total has declined. The November total is “nearly 8 percent from the previous month but still up 18 percent from November 2008. The report also shows one in every [...]
10Dec2009 | Peter G. Miller | 1 comment | Continued
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