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I'm a Real estate agent with Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals in Logan Utah.

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Cache Valley Utah Real Estate on 2009-11-25
Alan Barker - Logan - Real Estate Agent - Biznik on 2009-11-23
Underwater Borrowers with Good Credit are Likely to walk out from Underwater Mortgage on 2009-11-23
- The Experian report looked at 24 million U.S. credit records and found that borrowers with the highest credit ratings are 50 percent likelier to strategically default than lower-rated homeowners. The defaultees often have no adverse credit history, going from a record of perfect payments to no mortgage payments at all.
One in 7 U.S. mortgages foreclosing or delinquent | Reuters on 2009-11-23
- A record one in seven U.S.
  mortgages were in foreclosure or at least one payment past due
  in the third quarter
- U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans
  that entered the foreclosure process also jumped to records
  from July to September, the Mortgage Bankers Association said
  on Thursday.
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- - Rising job losses were behind the increasingly bleak
    portrait of the housing market in a trend that will continue
    into next year, the group said in data that adds to recent
    evidence of a still-struggling housing market.
  - record foreclosures will add to the growing supply of
    unsold homes, sapping the housing market as it attempts to
    recover from the worst slump since the Great Depression.
  - The MBA said the percentage of loans in foreclosure rose to
    1.42 percent
  - "Foreclosures remain the biggest hurdle to the housing
    recovery," said Michelle Meyer, economist at Barclays Capital
    in New York.
  - "Foreclosures will be worse in the first part of 2010 and
    we do not see a peak in foreclosures until the middle of next
    year."
  - conservative, prime fixed-rate loans often sold to
    homebuyers with the highest credit ratings continued to
    represent the largest share of foreclosures started and were
    the biggest driver of the increase in foreclosures
  - In fact, 33 percent of foreclosures started in the third
    quarter were on prime fixed-rate loans and those loans were 44
    percent of the quarterly increase in foreclosures, Brinkmann
    said.
US Q3 foreclosures, delinquencies hit new records - Foreclosure community blog resource powered by RealtyTrac on 2009-11-23
- U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process jumped in the third quarter, with both reaching record highs, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday.
- percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started rose to 1.42 percent in the third quarter,
15-Year Rate Hits Record Low on 2009-11-23
- The average rate for 15-year mortgages reached a new bottom this week, dipping from 4.40 percent to 4.32 percent—the lowest level since Freddie Mac began tracking rates in 1991.
  
  Rates for 30-year mortgages approached the all-time low of 4.78 percent again last week, falling to 4.83 percent from an average of 4.91 percent a week ago.
Homes for Sale Huntsville Utah on 2009-11-19
Hyrum Utah Real Esate - Find Real Estate for Sale in Hyrum UT on 2009-11-19
Fannie: 'Recovery is here' | Real Estate and Technology News Inman News on 2009-11-19
- The deepest and longest recession since the Great Depression appears to be over, Fannie Mae economists say, projecting sales of new and existing homes will jump 11 percent next year and that national home prices will stabilize, remaining essentially flat.
- "It appears that the economic recovery is here," Fannie Mae economists Doug Duncan and Orawin Velz said in a report summarizing their economic and mortgage forecasts, although they expect it will be weak compared to previous recoveries from deep recessions.
  Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a 3.5 percent annualized pace in the third quarter, following five declines in the prior six quarters, they noted, but growth is likely to moderate in the final three months of the year before strengthening in late 2010.
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- - Their housing forecast projects that housing starts will surge by 35 percent next year, from a recent historic low of 462,000 projected starts in 2009 to 624,000 next year.
    Fannie Mae expects national home prices will stabilize next year, with the median resale home price remaining essentially unchanged at $170,800. That's a 0.2 percent decline from 2009 and a 22 percent decline from 2007
6,500 Reasons to Upgrade Before Spring on 2009-11-18

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