To many people when they hear of Iowa auctions, they generally think of estate sales. Maybe a senior citizen has passed away and the family is liquidating the property. Or perhaps a farm auction where yet another farmer is forced to sell up and move into town. These do represent a large percentage of the [...]
In fact sales are up in the area thirty percent from October of last year. This years October houe sales were 675 as compared to 570 last year. But they were down from the 700 sales we saw last month in September. The prices averaged about 167,500$ which is up from last Oct average [...]
Last year a piece Iowa farmland for sale – near Orange City – sold for 13,950$ / acre. At the time (just last year mind you) those Iowa farmland prices were all many people could talk about for some time. It was an amazing amount of money! It was a record price for any Iowa [...]
The deadline to pay the second part of 2009-10 property taxes without a late penalty is Thursday. Polk County Treasurer Mary Maloney said she expects 20,000 customers to come through her office this month, so she encourages taxpayers to make payments online at www.IowaTaxAndTags.gov. Online payments can be made via credit card or electronic check, [...]
Wow – I just read about 5 hospital workers in the University of Iowa hospital system who happened to find a listening device hidden in their office. Apparently their boss had planted it while keeping the receiver in his office, so he could listen in on the private conversations of his staff. I just can’t help [...]
Not really a surprise that Iowa foreclosures were up in 2010. But I was surprised to see Cedar Rapids take as big a hit as it did. They were up 53% from the previous year. Compare that to Des Moines and West Des Moines which showed a 12.2% increase. The Quad Cities actually showed only [...]
According to an article in The Des Moines Register: Iowa’s fourth-quarter foreclosure rate rose to 2.92 percent from 2.79 percent a year earlier, a national report showed. But the rate of delinquent loans in Iowa has been dropping steadily, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in its quarterly national survey. Of 354,738 home loans in Iowa, [...]
Foreclosed houses in 2010 could surpass the 900k figure of 2009. Financial lenders are working their way through huge back-log of delinquent mortgage holders. Not all of those will necessarily end up foreclosed houses, but many probably will. So far this year over half a million foreclosed houses in the US. If that pace continues we will surpass the 900k foreclosed houses in 09
Automobile repossessions and the FTC
