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Foreclosure News Roundup

Slow news week so far with existing home sales and new home starts data coming out later in the week.  In the mean time, check out what we’re reading this week. Q&A: Purchasing foreclosures Baltimore Sun (blog) When it’s a foreclosure the questions … Continue reading

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New home sales rise for second month in a row

If you look around the web you’ll see headlines calling April’s 2nd subsequent month of gains in new U.S. single-family home sales a surprise.  However, here at HMF we’re not all that surprised.  Though a lot of emphasis in 1st … Continue reading

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Housing has worst quarter since 2008

If you’ve been following the blog for the last few months it will come as no surprise that the housing market just registered the worst quarter since 2008 in the 1st quarter of 2011. According to the latest housing market … Continue reading

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February Housing Price Data

The S&P Case Shiller price index was released for February and is a very positive report for foreclosure investors.  Home prices fell in all but one of the metro markets surveyed and are at their lowest point since April 2009. Foreclosure … Continue reading

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Cash Paying Vultures

Bloomberg has written our favorite headline of the year: Cash-Paying Vultures Pick Bones of U.S. Housing Market as Mortgage Dry Up If there weren’t vultures out there, you’d have a city of dead carcasses,” Robert Theocles, an independent consultant for … Continue reading

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February Home Sales Dismal

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) came out with their monthly existing home sales report for February today and its not good.  After an uptick in sales in January put the annual sales rate at 5.36M, February came in at … Continue reading

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The housing market sucks

The housing market sucks – this seems to be the general consensus.  More people today are under water on their homes.  House prices keep declining.  Signs of an economic recovery are mixed at best.  Why would anyone in their right mind invest … Continue reading

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