International Property Investment » first time home buyers http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com Property Investment around the World - Buying Investment Properties Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:20:59 +0000 en hourly 1 admin admin International Property Investment Blog No No Four States Lead Foreclosure Crisis http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/four-states-lead-foreclosure-crisis http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/four-states-lead-foreclosure-crisis#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:43:35 +0000 pgrundy http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/?p=2408 California, Arizona, Florida, and Nevada continue to lead the U.S. in foreclosures, but California is showing preliminary signs of a turnaround.

The cities with the greatest number of foreclosures include Las Vegas NV, Merced, Calif., the Cape Coral-Fort Myers area in Florida, and the California metro areas of Stockton, Riverside, Modesto, Bakersfield and Vallejo-Fairfield. Phoenix AZ, Port St. Lucie FL, Greeley CO, and Boise City ID also had extremely high foreclosure rates.

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]]> http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/four-states-lead-foreclosure-crisis/feed 0 Latest Coldwell Banker Survey Suggests Denial is Alive and Well in the US Housing Market http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/latest-coldwell-banker-survey-suggests-denial-is-alive-and-well-in-the-us-housing-market http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/latest-coldwell-banker-survey-suggests-denial-is-alive-and-well-in-the-us-housing-market#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:31:29 +0000 admin coldwell banker survey awareness latest shown broker lack coldwell respondents banker survey survey today’s brokers gillespie coldwell respondents banker survey survey today’s brokers zillow http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/?p=595 Another example of the lack of awareness amongst the US general population is shown in the latest Coldwell Banker Broker survey

First-time home buyers are primarily concerned with affordability when choosing a new home, but their expectations may be too high relative to their current financial buying power, according to a recent Coldwell Banker® survey conducted among its brokers. While nearly half of the Coldwell Banker broker respondents reported that affordability was the No. 1 concern for this group, 81 percent said today’s first-time home buyers consider move-in conditions to be very important when searching for homes. In contrast, only 7 percent are looking to purchase “fixer-upper” homes that they could buy at a lower price and renovate themselves.

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