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It's March, and as spring fills the air, realtors everywhere breathe a sigh of relief and prepare for a more hopeful market. Spring brings out both buyers and sellers, and the increased activity also tends to bring a little bouyancy to home prices. But while pundits everywhere herald the end of the real-estate crisis, some U.S. markets are wrestling with seriously grim foreclosure numbers.  For the savvy foreclosure investor, these markets represent a heavy concentration of great deals, highly motivated sellers and terrific profit opportunity.

Foreclosure News

A New York couple got an early Christmas present when an angry judge wiped out their half-a-million dollar mortgage. The judge's ruling eliminated both the $291,000 owed in principal and the $235,000 owed in interest and penalties. Calling the bank's behavior 'harsh, repugnant, shocking and...
It's the million dollar question, and it's a heated topic of conversation after years of turmoil in the nation's housing markets -- Will housing markets ever recover? The question is talked about and debated around water coolers, business offices and even corporate board rooms and seems to have a...
Santa Barbara, CA Dec 10, 2009 -- RealtyStore (http://www.realtystore.com) recorded 11,698 Notices of Default (NOD) in Illinois in November 2009; nearly double the 5,797 figure for November 2008. Such notices are posted when a homeowner is significantly behind on his mortgage payments and a...

Home Financing

  One of the key things that holds homebuyers and investors back in terms of jumping into foreclosure investing is the impression that you need a substantial initial commitment - that is, that you need to put down a large down payment. This is not always the case. There are several ways to get...

California Foreclosure

It's March, and as spring fills the air, realtors everywhere breathe a sigh of relief and prepare for a more hopeful market. Spring brings out both buyers and sellers, and the increased activity also tends to bring a little bouyancy to home prices. But while pundits everywhere herald the end of the...

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