11 Articles match "2005","Homes","Mortgage Payment"

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• Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
  
  Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast for anyone interested Reaching a double-digit peak above 14 percent before dropping back to 9 percent over the past six months, the rate of price appreciation is still more than double the norm (4 percent) for the nation over time.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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• Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
  
  It’s not just average Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure these days. Even rich and famous athletes who earned millions of dollars during their careers can be subjected to the emotional highs and lows of losing a home. Two recent cases in point: record-setting baseball player Jose Canseco , and former NBA star Latrell Sprewell . Canseco, who first came to prominence as a right fielder with the Oakland Athletics back in the 1980s, has decided to walk away Canseco owed Washington Mutual more than $2.5 million on the 7,300 square foot mansion with four bedrooms
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• Fed Stands Fast on Rate; Little Solace for Homeowners
  
  Although this bodes well for consumer loans, home equity lines of credit, and credit cards, it does little to alleviate the long-term effects starting to be felt by homeowners who signed on to very risky adjustable-rate subprime mortgages during 2005 and 2006. The interest rates on more than $1 trillion in these “exotic” mortgages are due to reset to higher rates in both 2007 and 2008. It wasn’t long after Ben Bernanke took over the reins of the Federal Reserve from Alan Greenspan that he put a halt to the 17 consecutive upward adjustments in the federal funds rate (FFR) — the short-term interest rate banks charge each other — back in August 2006.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
  
  In fact we have only reported foreclosures through October and the national total has already topped 1 million with two months left to report — way ahead of the 885,000 foreclosures reported for all of 2005. And the projections are that there will be much more foreclosure activity in 2007 and 2008, especially as the effects of an estimated $1 trillion in “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages start being felt. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time we take to reflect on our lives and what we can do to make the world a better place in which to live. Volunteers go out and serve meals
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
  
  The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (better known as Freddie Mac) has just released the results of its 23rd Annual Adjustable-Rate Mortgage survey of prime loans. Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door;
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages — with an emphasis on those originated between 2004 and 2005 — Cagan said, “We have to figure out who has equity and who doesn’t. In all, the
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• Dealing With the Affordability Quandry
  
  In addition to real estate investors and agents, the RealtyTrac website can be a great help to first-time homebuyers looking for a way to get into a home at a price that is more affordable, even in areas where prices seem out of reach for most people. First-Time Buyer Housing Affordability Index (FTB-HAI) , it is a wake-up call for first timers in that it measures the percentage of first-time buyers who can legitimately afford to purchase a median-priced home in California. Affordability is the key here. Especially in light of the new consumer index just announced by the California
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. View full March report. Posted 04-15-2008 2:00 AM
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• OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
  
  million American families with 2/28 and 3/27 mortgages are scheduled to reset by the end of 2008), Reich relied on a number of sources to support his point, including foreclosure numbers from RealtyTrac. Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives
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