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Category Archives: Foreclosures
Delinquencies at 20 year low
From CoreLogic: The States Leading in Nationwide Delinquency Rate Drops The overall delinquency rate was 3.8% nationwide in September, down from 4.4% a year earlier and the lowest for the month of September in more than 20 years, according to the latest … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, National Real Estate, Risky Lending
67 Comments
Slay the Zombies
From HousingWire: ATTOM: Zombie foreclosures are ticking down The amount of vacant homes in the U.S. continues to sit at a lull, slowly ticking down, according to a new data set from ATTOM Data Solutions. In the fourth quarter of 2019, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
95 Comments
Millennials – Still no home for you
From Curbed: Sorry, millennials: A recession won’t help you buy a house The 2008 financial crisis brought the global economy to its knees and sent American home prices into freefall. For anyone who managed to hang on to their job, savings, … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Foreclosures, National Real Estate
84 Comments
Insanity
From HousingWire: Appraisals may soon not be required on certain home sales of $400,000 and under Certain home sales of $400,000 and under may soon not need an appraisal, as federal regulators are close to approving a proposal to increase … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Housing Bubble, Mortgages, National Real Estate
44 Comments
Most stable market in…forever?
From CNBC: Housing-market distress is at its lowest in at least 20 years — can it hold? In the aftermath of the housing crisis, lenders and regulators clamped down hard to make sure we’d never have another bubble like the … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Foreclosures, National Real Estate
98 Comments
Faster foreclosures come to NJ
From the Star Ledger: Murphy hopes these new laws will put an end to N.J.’s dubious distinction as the nation’s leader in home foreclosures Gov. Phil Murphy signed a package of measures into law Monday that aim to prevent New Jersey from … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate, Politics
149 Comments
Crisis officially over?
From Inman: Delinquency rates fall to pre-housing crisis levels: CoreLogic The number of homeowners failing to make mortgage payments has dipped to levels unseen since before the 2008 housing crisis. Nationwide, only 4.1 percent of homeowners were delinquent on their mortgage in December, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Mortgages, National Real Estate, Risky Lending
61 Comments
Don’t believe the hype?
From MarketWatch: Why the housing and mortgage crisis is far from over With major data providers reporting that mortgage delinquencies continue to decline, Wall Street and the pundits are more convinced than ever that the mortgage crisis is dead and … Continue reading
Posted in Foreclosures, National Real Estate, NYC
64 Comments
Predictions 2019!
This is becoming a tradition around here, so here we go again! You know how this works, break out the crystal balls and prognosticate. Ground Rules Predictions provided should either be for June 30th, 2019 or December 31st, 2019, please … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Foreclosures
94 Comments
The “fix” is easy
The fix is to allow lenders to foreclose without requiring approval of the judiciary, everything else is a gimmick and give-away, like this from NJ101.5: HOW CAN WE FIX SOUTH JERSEY’S TROUBLING FORECLOSURE MESS? A new report finds the foreclosure … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, South Jersey Real Estate
64 Comments
Foreclosure problem, or borrowing problem?
From MarketWatch: A decade after the housing crisis, foreclosures still haunt homeowners Maria Landi, a 75-year-old retired insurance specialist, and her husband John, had been making payments on their East Brunswick, New Jersey home for 40 years when Wells Fargo … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate
98 Comments
We’re #1! In flipped properties.
From NJ101.5: Home flipping down, but not in New Jersey Home “flipping” — buying and selling a dwelling quickly after renovations for a profit — is slowing in most parts of the country. But flipping activity in New Jersey is … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate
64 Comments
Plenty of room to run?
From CNBC: The housing recovery isn’t over, it just feels like it is A slew of negative housing numbers for July are piling up on top of a slew of negative housing numbers from the last several months. Sales of … Continue reading
Will we ever get through the backlog?
From NJ101.5: NJ still the worst state for foreclosures As we move further away from last decade’s housing crisis, its lingering impacts on the real estate market are dwindling. But the Garden State still can’t escape its role as the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate
100 Comments
What’s going on in Brick?
From the Shorebeat blog: Brick Has a Major Foreclosure Problem on Its Hands Brick Township’s foreclosure rate is nearly double the state average and five times as high as the national average, leading Brick officials to contract with a firm … Continue reading