Tag Archives: Foreclosure Rates

US Homeowners Rise Above Water on Mortgages

The negative equity numbers also don’t say anything about whether or not the loans coming out from underwater are delinquent. While the overall delinquency rate dropped dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 7.09 percent of all loans, according … Continue reading

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Real Estate Market Turning Around In Many Denver Neighborhoods

DENVER (CBS4) – A few years ago Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood was listed as having one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Things have changed dramatically since then. The far Northeast Denver neighborhood has gone through some … Continue reading

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Will Fed’s Mortgage Buying Juice the Housing Recovery?

Home prices are stabilizing, and new construction is bouncing back, but apparently the U.S. Federal Reserve isn’t buying a bullish housing recovery.  Its announcement Thursday that it would buy up to $40 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities every month, with … Continue reading

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Why Aren’t Candidates Talking More About Housing?

There has been plenty of political talk about the economy this week, but precious few words about one of the biggest drags on the economy: housing.  Despite recent signs that the housing market is improving, it is far from healthy. … Continue reading

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New Crop of Foreclosures Is Coming

While fewer Americans are falling behind on their mortgage payments, the huge backlog of already delinquent mortgages is finally making its way through the banking system to foreclosure. Total foreclosure activity rose in the first half of this year from … Continue reading

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Some US metros ‘in the clear’ of housing crisis

David Zalubowski / AP Denver recorded a 7.2 percent asking-price increase year-over-year in June, according to the website’s own pricing metrics. Nearly 30 cities have been designated “in the clear” of the housing downtown, according to a report today by Trulia, … Continue reading

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Foreclosure Activity Returns in Majority of US Markets

Big jumps in foreclosure activity in cities like Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, New York and Raleigh pushed the national numbers higher in the first three months of this year, according to a new report from RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure sales and data … Continue reading

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Housing: Bottom, Reversal or Just Noisy Numbers

The spring housing numbers aren’t coming in along expectations. That can’t be, right? Unemployment has been easing, mortgage delinquencies falling, and affordability is off the charts. That means housing should be bouncing back with verve and vigor this Spring, except … Continue reading

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More churches face foreclosure with debts that fall beyond banks’ graces

A congregation losing its house of worship, once a rare event, is now common in Colorado — part of a national trend of record foreclosures on churches. The real-estate information company CoStar Group looked at five years of distressed church … Continue reading

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CoreLogic: Foreclosure rates dip in metro Denver

. Mark Harden New Media Editor – Denver Business Journal Email  | Facebook  | Twitter  | Broadway 17th blog The foreclosure rate for the Denver metro area was 1.66 percent of home mortgages in October, down from the 1.85 percent rate of the … Continue reading

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