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Bank repossession of homes passed 100,00 for the first time in September, according to industry research firm RealtyTrac. A record total of 102,134 bank repossessions were reported for the month. If...
Foreclosed home sales were 24% of all transactions in the second quarter of 2010. The average price of a foreclosed home that was sold was 26% below comparable homes not in foreclosure. These data...
Home foreclosures remained high again in August, as might have been expected given recent news on home prices and housing sales. According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure actions were reported on 338,836...
Real estate sales have just plunged by a nearly unimaginable amount. According to the the National Association of Realtors, existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include...
Looking back to early 2010, this is about the time of year many economists and real estate experts believed that the housing market would recover. GDP growth in the third quarter, they reasoned,...
Housing is making a recovery–a tiny one. Some home prices in the weakest markets have begun to improve. In California, 20 of the 26 markets tracked by real estate research firm Zillow had price...
RealtyTrac, a leading real estate research firm, reports that foreclosures in 75% of metro areas rose in the first half, another sign that the housing market never recovered from the tough it hit 18...
The number of foreclosures in the US hit 1.65 million in the first half. That is an increase of 8% from the same period last year, and a 5% decrease from  the previous six months, according to...