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FHA loans almost 50 percent of loans in Denvery

Government-insured FHA loans accounted for 47.5 percent the financing for all of the homes closed in the Denver area in June, reports  San Diego-based DataQuick.

To get a perspective on this, I turned to Peter Lansing, president of Universal Lending, and a sponsor of InsideRealEstateNews.com.

Universal Lending probably does more FHA-insured loans than any other lender in [...]

May-to-June foreclosures not encouraging

When crunching numbers, I’m always a bit wary of putting too much weight on consecutive month data when it comes to real estate.

That is because there can be huge seasonal reasons why home sales, for example, might pop in March from February, or fizzle in September from August, for example.

But any data can serve a [...]

Foreclosures down, not out

It may be the bottom of the Denver-area housing market, but it is too early to say that the foreclosure crisis is over.

There were 10,726 foreclosure filings in the metro Denver area in the first half of the year, a 10.5 percent decline from the 11,992  the first six months of 2008.

“That is still a [...]