Category Archives: Foreclosures

Slay the Zombies

Posted on November 1, 2019 by grim

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

Posted on September 2, 2019 by grim

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

Posted on August 25, 2019 by grim

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?

Posted on July 15, 2019 by grim

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

Posted on April 30, 2019 by grim

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?

Posted on March 13, 2019 by grim

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?

Posted on January 9, 2019 by grim

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!

Posted on December 31, 2018 by grim

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

Posted on October 29, 2018 by grim

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?

Posted on September 27, 2018 by grim

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.

Posted on September 11, 2018 by grim

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?

Posted on August 24, 2018 by grim

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 →

Posted in Demographics, Economics, Employment, Foreclosures, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate | 50 Comments

Will we ever get through the backlog?

Posted on July 16, 2018 by grim

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?

Posted on July 11, 2018 by grim

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 →

Posted in Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate, Shore Real Estate | 78 Comments

Glimpse into the future: NJ coming for your house

Posted on June 16, 2018 by grim

What happens when NJ can’t afford to pay it’s own taxes anymore? Rampant (fraudulent?) mismanagement of assessments? Detroit offers a glimpse into what to come in NJ. From the Detroit News: Study: Bad assessments prompt 10K Detroit foreclosures One in … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, New Jersey Real Estate, Politics, Property Taxes | 104 Comments