Homes to Drop $700 Billion Overall in Value in 2011
Nationwide, homes are expected to lose more than $681 billion in value during 2011, 35 percent less than the $1.1 trillion lost in 2010, according to analysis of the recent Zillow Real Estate Market...
View ArticleHome Prices Experience 4.6 Percent Year-Over-Year Drop in November
Home values in the United States were essentially unchanged in November, decreasing a marginal 0.1 percent from October, according to this month's Zillow Real Estate Market Reports. Annually, the...
View ArticleS&P/Case-Shiller Records Near Four Percent Home Price Drop Over 2011
Data through January 2012, released by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, showed annual declines of 3.9 percent and 3.8 percent for the 10- and 20-City Composites,...
View ArticleRelentless Mortgage Fraudsters Maintain Their Ways
Interthinx has released its annual Mortgage Fraud Risk Report, which highlights some of the most significant mortgage fraud trends based on analysis of loan applications processed in 2011 by the...
View ArticleNumber of Housing Markets Showing Improvement Exceeds the 100 Mark
The list of housing markets showing measurable improvement expanded slightly to include 101 metropolitan areas in April, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/First American...
View ArticleInterthinx Mortgage Fraud Risk Index Drops to Lowest Mark Since Second...
Interthinx has released its quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report covering data collected in the first quarter of 2012 which found that the national Mortgage Fraud Risk Index decreased by 4.3 percent...
View ArticleLexisNexis Fraud Report Shows Rise in Collusion Activity in the Mortgage...
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has issued its 14th Annual Mortgage Fraud Report that shows that while mortgage fraud rates among industry professionals were down in 2011, there is evidence of significant...
View ArticleLPS: Home Prices Have Risen 2.5 Percent in 2012
Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS) has announced that its LPS Applied Analytics division updated its home price index (LPS HPI) with residential sales concluded during April 2012. “Home prices have...
View ArticleEighty Housing Markets Show Improvement in August
A total of 80 metropolitan statistical areas across 32 states and the District of Columbia were listed as improving housing markets on the National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving...
View ArticleMortgage Fraud Remains High in Southeastern U.S. and NYC Metro Regions
Interthinx has released its quarterly Mortgage Fraud Risk Report covering data collected in the second quarter of 2012. According to the most recent analysis, overall risk resumed its upward climb...
View ArticleU.S. Home Prices See Largest Increase Since Q4 of 2005
U.S. house prices rose 1.8 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2012 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index...
View ArticleHome Prices Gain in Q3
Growth in metropolitan area median home prices increased in Q3, and more areas are showing gains, according to the latest quarterly report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The median...
View ArticleHome Prices Nationwide Show Strongest Year-Over-Year Gains in Seven Years
A growing number of metropolitan areas had higher median home prices in the fourth quarter, with the national price showing the strongest year-over-year increase in seven years, according to the latest...
View ArticleMetropolitan Median Home Prices Rise in Q1
Metropolitan area median home prices continued to rise in the first quarter, with the national gain showing the best year-over-year performance in over seven years, according to the latest quarterly...
View ArticleQ1 Delinquency Rate Drops 21 Percent Year-Over-Year
The national mortgage delinquency rate (the rate of borrowers 60 or more days past due) in Q1 2013 dropped 21 percent versus last year; and now stands at 4.56 percent. Since last quarter, the mortgage...
View ArticleQ2 Median Home Price Rises 12.2 Percent Year-Over-Year Nationwide
Median home prices continued to rise in the majority of metropolitan areas in the second quarter, with the national year-over-year price showing the strongest gain in seven-and-a-half years, according...
View ArticleMortgage Fraud Sees Four Percent Quarterly Rise
Interthinx has released its quarterly interactive Mortgage Fraud Risk Report, covering data collected in the second quarter of 2013. Overall, the national Mortgage Fraud Risk Index value is 104 this...
View ArticleMost Metros See Robust Year-Over-Year Price Gains
The majority of metropolitan areas in the third quarter experienced robust year-over-year price gains, with the national median price showing the strongest annual growth in nearly eight years,...
View ArticleKroll Reports Quarter-Over-Quarter Rise in Mortgage Fraud
Kroll Factual Data Inc. has announced a 10.41 percent average increase throughout the country of possible fraudulent activity in loan applications submitted to the company for review between the second...
View ArticleSmaller Metropolitan Area Increases Reported By NAR
Although strong year-over-year price growth continued in most metropolitan areas in the first quarter, increases were somewhat smaller, according to the latest quarterly report by the National...
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