Posts with tag CoreLogic

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- U.S. home prices soared 12.1 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since February 2006, as more buyers competed for fewer homes. Real estate data provider CoreLogic says prices rose in April from the previous April in 48 states. Prices also rose 3.2 percent in April... Continue Reading »

The number of foreclosed homes held steady in April, while there were fewer properties sitting in the pipeline, fresh signs the housing recovery is on track, data from CoreLogic showed on Wednesday. There were 52,000 foreclosures completed last month, the same amount as in March, but down about 16 percent from 62,000 in... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- A survey shows U.S. home prices rose 10.5 percent in March compared with a year ago, the biggest gain since March 2006. CoreLogic, a real estate data provider, said Tuesday that annual home prices have now increased for 13 straight months. Prices are rising in part because more... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber U.S. home prices jumped in January, a sign the housing market is gaining momentum as it nears the spring selling season. Home prices rose 9.7 percent in January from a year ago, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic. That's up from an 8.3 percent increase in December and the biggest... Continue Reading »

The worst of the housing downturn appears to be behind us, and while real estate markets around the country are improving, some states are still experiencing a struggle with taming foreclosures. According to RealtyTrac, the number of foreclosed properties stood at 1.8 million last year, down 2.7% from 2011 and 36% from... Continue Reading »

The number of homes in the "shadow inventory," once considered a serious threat to a real estate recovery, continues to drop as the housing market absorbs foreclosures, analytics firm CoreLogic said in a report it released today. The shadow inventory refers to the pent-up supply of homes that are either in foreclosure or... Continue Reading »

By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON -- A measure of U.S. home prices jumped 5 percent in September compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase since July 2006. The gain reported by CoreLogic offered more evidence of a sustainable housing recovery. The real estate data provider also said Tuesday that... Continue Reading »

By AOL Real Estate and The Associated Press Flooding from Hurricane Sandy's storm surge may cause $90 billion in damage to nearly 300,000 properties in the superstorm's path, says the analytics firm CoreLogic. Eight of the most populous metros in the Northeast are projected to bear the brunt of flooding from Hurricane... Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON -- U.S. sales of previously occupied homes fell in September after hitting a two-year high in August, in part because there were fewer homes available for sale. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales of existing homes in the U.S. dipped 1.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of... Continue Reading »

Mortgage lenders will soon have access to new details about a prospective borrower's past -- such as past rental applications, inquiries to pay-day lenders, and missed child support payments -- that will be factored in to a new credit score. Real estate and mortgage data aggregator CoreLogic says it's signed an... Continue Reading »

LOS ANGELES -- Most of the nation's largest metropolitan areas are seeing a sharp drop in foreclosure activity as banks take longer to move against homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments. In the first half of this year, 84 percent of metropolitan areas with a population of at least 200,000 saw their... Continue Reading »

After a two year lull in response to the subprime mortgage crisis, lending fraud is back with a vengeance. A new report by research firm CoreLogic shows that mortgage fraud rose 17 percent last year. In comparison, fraud dropped a total of 57 percent in the two years following its peak in 2006. While the increase may seem... Continue Reading »

Lenders lost about $310 million in the last two years unnecessarily because of short sale fraud in one out of 53 short sale transactions, according to CoreLogic. That's not a big surprise when you consider that short sales are up 700 percent compared to just two years ago. Over half of all short sales (55.8 percent)... Continue Reading »

Not many Americans are feeling it yet, but we may be in the midst of a housing recovery. National home prices increased in May by 2.9 percent, as compared to May 2009, according to real estate information firm CoreLogic, making it the fourth straight month they have done so. But don't celebrate just yet; many experts... Continue Reading »

The headlines are full of the great news about new home sales. And some of them are warranted. New sales of single-family houses soared 14.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000 units. The April gain followed a 29.8 percent surge in March, the biggest monthly increase in 47 years, according to the... Continue Reading »