07.09.2008 Southwest Florida Foreclosures Rising Along With Frustration
Michael Braga,
All told, foreclosure filings in the three-county area hit 2,240 in June, a 3.7 percent increase from the 2,161 the previous month and up 164 percent from the 848 filed in June 2007, said RealtyTrac.
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07.09.2008 Utah Foreclosures Up 141 Percent
Jasen Lee, Deseret News Staff Writer
The number of Utah homeowners who received a foreclosure filing in June jumped nearly 141 percent, compared with the same month last year, according to RealtyTrac.
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07.09.2008 Florida Foreclosures Up 92 Percent
Paul Owers, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Staff Writer
Foreclosure activity is the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing.
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07.09.2008 Six Months, 343,000 Lost Homes
Les Christie, CNNMoney.com Staff Writer
RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed properties, reported that lenders repossessed 71,563 homes in June. A year ago, just 26,369 homes were taken back.
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07.09.2008 Foreclosure Filings up Nearly 70 Percent in Wash.
Elizabeth Rhodes, Seattle Times Business Reporter
Washington state foreclosure filings were up 69 percent last month compared with the previous June and up almost 10 percent from May, according to RealtyTrac.
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07.09.2008 Cape Coral-Fort Myers Tops Fla. Foreclosures
NBC 2 Fort Myers
The Cape Coral-Fort Myers foreclosure rate in June led the state and ranked fourth in the country, according to RealtyTrac, a California firm that monitors foreclosure actions.
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07.09.2008 Broward Foreclosures Up 68 Percent, Dade 4 Percent
Monica Hatcher, Miami Herald Staff Writer
Foreclosures poured into South Florida's ailing housing market in June, as the mortgage crisis, exacerbated by tougher economic times, continued claiming overextended borrowers in the region.
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07.09.2008 U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surge 53 Percent in June
Alan Zibel, AP Business Writer via ABC News
The number of homeowners stung by the rout in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with June a year ago, according to RealtyTrac.
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07.09.2008 Foreclosures Rose 53 Percent in June, Bank Seizures Triple
Dan Levy, Bloomberg Staff Writer
Foreclosure activity is the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s, said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing.
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07.08.2008 Famous, But Fighting Foreclosure: Celebs Feel Housing Crunch
Christy Lemire, Associated Press Staff Writer
Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing for RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosures, says that people of any income level can get in trouble by buying overvalued homes they can't afford.
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06.26.2008 Foreclosure Fishing? Read This First
Mary Ellen Podmolik, Chicago Tribune Contributing Writer
In May, foreclosure filings, which include default notices, auction sales notices and bank repossessions, totaled 9,670 in Illinois, according to RealtyTrac, a real estate web site.
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06.22.2008 Couple Blame Only Themselves For Loss
Peter Y. Hong, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer via Journalgazette.net
Allen County foreclosure filings increased about 7 percent in May from the same month a year ago, according to data this month from Irvine-Calif.-based RealtyTrac.
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06.19.2008 Silver Lining
Carol Tice, Entrepreneur Magazine
To find business niches that will grow during the down cycle, we turned to two real estate experts: Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, and Rick Sharga, vice president of marketing at RealtyTrac.
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06.18.2008 Housing Crisis Likely To Last All Summer
The Associated Press
Foreclosures are unlikely to peak until sometime this fall, as more loans made to borrowers with poor credit records reset at higher levels, said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s vice president of marketing.
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06.17.2008 Smart Ways To Profit From Foreclosures
Matt Woolsey, Forbes Staff Writer
With 700,000 bank-owned homes on the market, and another one million in some state of foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac, you might be tempted to add a distressed property to your portfolio.
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06.16.2008 Foreclosures Continue to Spike in Illinois, Nation
Anna Marie Kukec, Daily Herald Staff Writer
Foreclosures in Illinois spiked again in May to about 42 percent compared to a year ago, according to data expected to be released today by RealtyTrac.
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06.14.2008 Cook County, Ill., Foreclosures are Worse Than U.S. Avg.
David Roeder, Chicago Sun-Times Staff Writer
RealtyTrac Inc., a marketplace for foreclosed properties, said Cook County foreclosures rose 57 percent in May compared with the same month a year ago.
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06.13.2008 Kentucky Foreclosures Jump 46.1 Percent
Jim Jordan and Michael White, Herald-Leader Staff Writers
Kentucky homebuyers saw a 46.1 percent jump in foreclosures from April to May, but the state remained a low 38th in the latest rankings by RealtyTrac.
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06.12.2008 The Trouble with Florida Real Estate: Foreclosure Backlog
Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal Staff Writer
After California, Florida has the second highest number of foreclosure filings, according to data released Friday by RealtyTrac, a foreclosure listing company.
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06.12.2008 73,000 homes lost to foreclosure in May
Les Christie, CNNMoney.com Staff Writer
Foreclosure filings of all kinds were up 48 percent from May 2007, according to the latest release from RealtyTrac.
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06.12.2008 Housing Pain Spreads: Foreclosures Jump Nearly 50 Percent
Alan Zibel, AP Business Writer
The number of U.S. homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose further last month, with foreclosures up nearly 50% compared with a year earlier, RealtyTrac said.
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06.11.2008 Foreclosure Rates Higher Around U.S. Military Bases
Michael R. Crittenden, Wall Street Journal
Increased foreclosures around U.S. military bases shouldn’t be above the national average — but they are, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, (D., N.Y.), who chairs the Joint Economic Committee.
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06.11.2008 Flipping for Profit
Matt Woolsey, Forbes Staff Writer
Kirk Leipzig is turning foreclosed homes into cash. Leipzig has used his courthouse intelligence and a $49 monthly subscription to listing service RealtyTrac to buy four houses out of foreclosure.
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05.31.2008 Prospective Buyers on Board
Valerie Cotsalas, New York Times Staff Writer
In Nassau in April, there were 502 foreclosure filings, more than double the number in April 2007, according to RealtyTrac, an Internet-based firm that tracks foreclosures nationwide.
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05.29.2008 4 Reasons Housing Won't Recover Quickly
David Lee Smith, Motley Fool Staff Writer via MSNBC
RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosed properties, recently reported that foreclosure activity jumped 57 percent from its year-earlier pace.
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05.29.2008 110,000 Central Florida Property Owners Lag on Taxes
Mary Shanklin, Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
Orlando ranked 13th in the nation for foreclosures during the first quarter of the year, with 1.2 percent of households receiving a notice, according to RealtyTrac, a California-based research company.
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05.25.2008 Wealthy of Greenwich Not Immune from Foreclosure
Christine Haughney The New York Times Staff Writer
RealtyTrac data shows eight Greenwich homes receiving foreclosure filings last month in this town where the average single family home that sold this year went for $3.1 million.
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05.19.2008 Deadbeat Homeowners Hit The Road
Maurna Desmo, Forbes.com Staff Writer
In March, according to foreclosure database RealtyTrac, foreclosures rose 54 percent year-over-year, but bank repossessions surged at double that rate, 129 percent.
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05.17.2008 The Scars of Losing a Home
Robert J. Shiller, Contributing Writer, New York Times
Across the United States, there were 243,353 foreclosure filings in April alone, nearly three times the total in the same month just two years ago, according to RealtyTrac.
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05.15.2008 Housing Woes Lure Back Bold Buyers
Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor Staff Writer
RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosures, said the number of homes facing foreclosure rose 65 percent in April compared with a year ago.
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05.14.2008 Luxury Foreclosures
Kendra Marr, Washington Post Staff Writer
One in every 519 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in April, according to RealtyTrac, an online directory of foreclosed properties.
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05.13.2008 Foreclosure Filings Hit Record in April
Kenneth Musante, CNNMoney.com Staff Writer
U.S. foreclosure filings reached a record high in April, rising almost 65 percent over the previous year, according to RealtyTrac.
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05.13.2008 Foreclosures Spike Sharply in Broome
My-Ly Nguyen, Press & Sun Bulletin Staff Writer
Foreclosure filings in Broome County have grown dramatically since the second quarter of last year.
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05.13.2008 Foreclosures Climb 65 Percent as Loan Workouts Fall Short
Dan Levy, Bloomberg News Staff Writer
U.S. foreclosure filings climbed 65 percent and bank seizures more than doubled in April from a year earlier as mortgage industry efforts to modify loans fell short.
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05.13.2008 Florida Has 4th Worst Foreclosure Filing Rate
Shannon Behnken, Tampa Tribune Staff Writer
Florida's rate of foreclosure filings was the fourth worst among all states in April, and the Tampa Bay area's rate ranked 34th worst among metro areas, according to RealtyTrac.
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05.13.2008 Treasure Coast Saw Almost 1,800 Homes Enter Stage of Foreclosure Last Month
Nadia Vanderhoof, Treasure Coast Palm Staff Writer
The number of homes entering foreclosure on the Treasure Coast continued to increase in April, according to California-based RealtyTrac.
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05.13.2008 New York City Foreclosure Woes Surge
Lore Croghan, Daily News Business Writer
The number of city homeowners in danger of losing their place to foreclosure soared 28 percent last month from April 2007, according to real estate Web site RealtyTrac.
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05.13.2008 Home Foreclosures: Crisis Is Only Getting Deeper
Dianna Olick, CNBC Reporter
It’s another record in the real estate market, and it’s not a good one.
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05.11.2008 Foreclosures up 70 percent in Louisiana
Kelly W. Brown, New Orleans City Business
One in every 944 households in Louisiana received a foreclosure filing in the first three months of this year. That’s well below the U.S. rate of one in every 194 households, according to RealtyTrac.
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05.11.2008 Is Anyone Going to Save Us?
Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek Staff Writer
Foreclosure filings jumped 57 percent in the year that ended in March, RealtyTrac reports.
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04.29.2008 Foreclosures Double, and Home Prices Tumble
Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY Staff Writer
The number of homes entering foreclosure jumped more than 100 percent in the first three months of the year compared with the same quarter in 2007, RealtyTrac reported.
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04.29.2008 Foreclosure Numbers Double from 2007, California Yet to Hit Bottom
Alex Veiga, Associated Press Staff Writer via Wall Street Journal
Nationwide, 649,917 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in the first three months of the year, up 112 percent from 306,722 during the same period last year, RealtyTrac said.
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04.29.2008 Home Foreclosures And Banks: Here's A Real Disturbing Number
Diana Olick, CNBC Reporter
“Typically you’ll see about 20 percent of the foreclosure filings being bank-owned,” RealtyTrac’s Rick Sharga told me in an interview this morning.
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04.28.2008 Foreclosures Spike 112% - No End in Sight
Les Christie, CNNMoney.com Staff Writer
Foreclosure filings in the first three months of 2008 rose more than 112% over last year, according to RealtyTrac.
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04.28.2008 Foreclosures Jump for Seventh Straight Quarter
Lynn Adler, Reuters Staff Writer
Home foreclosure filings jumped 23 percent in the first quarter from the prior quarter, and more than doubled from a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac.
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04.26.2008 For Some, the Dream Slips Away
Julie Lynem, San Luis Obispo.com staff writer
Overall, foreclosure activity is up 20 percent in the county from March 2007, according to RealtyTrac, a firm that tracks real estate activity nationwide.
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04.24.2008 Pain of Foreclosures Spreads to the Affluent
Christine Haughney, New York Times Staff Writer
In Greenwich, foreclosure filings were made against 100 homes last year, according to RealtyTrac.
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