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2011’s foreclosures lowest in four years

RealtyTrac released its Year-End 2011 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today. It shows a total of 2,698,967 foreclosure filing actions – default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions – reported on 1,887,777 U.S. properties in 2011, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2012 2:34 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 0 Comments

SAR Monthly Statistics Released for December 2011

Property sales up 8.2 percent for full year 2011; prices stable For the full year 2011, property sales of members of the Sarasota Association of Realtors® jumped by 8.2 percent to 8,224, achieving the highest level since 2005. The surge in sales was Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:31 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 0 Comments

SAR Monthly Statistics Released for December 2010

Sales surge in December 2010 and prices remain stable The Sarasota real estate market saw a big surge in December sales, from 534 in November to 681 last month for a 27.8 percent increase. In addition, the median sales price for both single family homes Read More...
Posted Monday, January 17, 2011 11:55 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 2 Comments

Real Estate Evaluation Tips

Investing in the real estate market is an incredibly popular and at the moment potentially risky endeavor in the United States. It is often a very positive and profitable investment however and many people who are in the right market areas are quite frequently Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:48 PM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 0 Comments

FHA Loans To Get Costlier

It’s about to get more expensive to take out—and a bit harder to qualify for—a loan insured by the Federal Housing Administration . Faced with rising losses and falling reserves, the FHA is preparing a series of tweaks to its underwriting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:40 PM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 1 Comments

Mortgage Modification Assistance Helping Distressed Home Owners

Changing or amending one or several aspects of a mortgage agreement is called loan modification . Loan modification is normally used by mortgage companies to help mortgage holders but can be used to alter the terms of any loan or debt obligation. Over Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:25 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 1 Comments

Fraud Watch for Homeowners

MORTGAGE fraud continues to expand, in both the number of incidents and the methods that criminals use to strip equity from homeowners and lenders. Now a new online service offers free help to keep homeowners safe from an emerging form of fraud known Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:47 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 0 Comments

Housing to Bottom Out in March

Is the pain almost over? First American CoreLogic is predicting that its U.S. home-price index will bottom out in March. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based research firm said the index in August was down 10.1% from a year earlier. That represented a slowing Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:17 AM by Chaim Gleitmann CIPS | 0 Comments