Maryland may have overtaken Florida for the nation's highest foreclosure rate of any state in October, but Florida still led all states by far in bank repossessions (REOs) for the month, according to RealtyTrac's October 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released Thursday.
Read More »Distressed Homes Discount Averages 37 Percent in September
Distressed residential properties had a median sales price of 37 percent below the median sales price of non-distressed properties nationwide in September, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 Residential and Foreclosure Sales Report released Tuesday.
Read More »Percentage of Short, Distressed Sales Falls to Three-Year Low
Short sales and sales of distressed properties (those that are in foreclosure or bank-owned) accounted for 12.7 percent of all residential home sales in the U.S. in the third quarter, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 Residential Sales Report released today.
Read More »Report: REO Sales Account for More Than Half of All-Cash Transactions
The sales of REO properties, or those repossessed by lenders, accounted for more than half of all-cash sales in the U.S. in July, according to transaction data recently released by CoreLogic.
Read More »The Wolf Firm Adds Five Attorneys
The Wolf Firm, an Irvine, California-based financial services law firm, announced recently the addition of several new attorneys (alphabetically): Mark T. Domeyer, Robert J. Jackson, Scott J. Jackson, Parnaz Parto, and Sonia A. Plesset.
Read More »Five States Account for Nearly Half of Completed Foreclosures in Last 12 Months
Five states accounted for almost half of all completed foreclosures nationwide in the 12-month period ending in August 2014, according to CoreLogic's August National Foreclosure Report released on Thursday.
Read More »Report: Distressed Homes Sold at Less Than Half Price in Eight States in August
Eight states reported a median sales price for distressed homes at less than half the sales price of non-distressed homes in August, according to a report recently released by RealtyTrac.
Read More »Rosenberg & Associates Adds Two Attorneys
Maryland-based real estate law firm Rosenberg & Associates has added two new attorneys, Jullie Evasco and Jennifer Rochino.
Read More »Shuffling the Deck: Staying Ahead of the Housing Recovery
In the housing industry, the only constant is change. In an economy that is still on the road to housing recovery and an industry that is still in a period of consolidation after the biggest financial downturn since the Great Depression, the best in the business are nimble on their feet and adaptable to the set of circumstances that is presented.
Read More »Report: Distressed Property Valuations No Longer Driven By Foreclosures, REOs
Residential foreclosures and REO (bank-owned) properties no longer drive distressed property valuations, according to the FNC Appraisals Pipeline Report released earlier in the week.
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