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7May/101

Where Home Equity is Evaporating the Quickest (Map)

Forbes has compiled a list of 11 real estate markets with home values which are still declining quickly. Here is how they determined these areas:

Using data from Moody's Economy.com and Equifax, we measured the percentage of home equity--or the amount invested in the home, plus or minus any price appreciation or depreciation--relative to the home's current value in the country's 200 largest metropolitan statistical areas. We ranked metros based on data from the first quarter of this year. We also included numbers from 2006 and 2008 for reference.

Here are the markets:

  1. Modesto, CA
  2. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
  3. Phoenix-Mesa-Glenda, AZ
  4. Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
  5. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
  6. Stockton, CA
  7. Merced, CA
  8. Reno-Sparks, NV
  9. Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA
  10. Anchorage, AK
  11. Bremerton-Silverdale, WA
27Apr/101

Top Ten Mortgage Fraud States (Map)

CNNMoney.com reports that the Mortgage Asset Research Institute (MARI) has released a report which shows incidents of fraud comitted by mortgage industry professionals had increased by 7% in 2009.

The jump in mortgage fraud is a troubling trend, given that it played a big role in setting the housing crisis in motion, with mortgage professionals doing things like listing false income claims for borrowers, and overstating a home's appraised value.

And the statistics may not capture the entire picture, according to Jennifer Butts of LexisNexis Mortgage Asset Research, since fraud isn't usually detected until a loan goes bad.

10 Top scam states

Rank State Fraud index for 2009
1 Florida 292
2 New York 217
3 California 159
4 Arizona 158
5 Michigan 136
6 Maryland 136
7 New Jersey 135
8 Georgia 124
9 Illinois 107
10 Virginia 103

10 Top Mortgage Fraud States [CNNMoney.com]

14Apr/100

The Evolution of the American Household (Infograph)

I'm not a regular reader of Women's Day (I swear!), but they have a really great infograph showing the evolution of the american household through they decades. Check it out:

Evolution of the American Household

12Apr/100

The Demographics of Social Media (infograph)

From flowtown.com:

Numerous social media sites have witnessed explosive growth of their user bases in the last several years, but it’s a known fact that the type of user a site attracts varies greatly. Have you ever wondered which sites attract the most educated of social media users, or those that pull in the highest income? Below we map the demographics of the world’s most popular social media sites.

Social Media Demographics

16Mar/100

Indications of the Real Estate Recovery [InfoMap]

For all of us visual learners, here is a beautiful map showing recent national real estate sales trends:

MNT-HOME-SALES-R6

Mint Map: Housing Sales [MintLife Blog]

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