Entries Tagged as 'foreclosure_activity'

Unraveling 2007 Foreclosure Numbers

More than 2.2 million foreclosure filings on nearly 1.3 million properties. A 75 percent increase in foreclosure activity from 2006. Those are the headlines from RealtyTrac’s 2007 year-end foreclosure report.

But there’s more to the story.
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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure

The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report, which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.”…(read more)

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5 States = 55% of July Foreclosure Pie

California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia together accounted for 55 percent of all U.S. foreclosure filings in July, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. The foreclosure filings tracked in the report are default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions….(read more)

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