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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages. number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. Saccacio, chief executive officer at the country’s largest provider of foreclosure data and listings, RealtyTrac.com . “Instead, No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Famous lenders with once-fabulous finances are turning up in the headlines among the broke and busted.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... Of all the mortgage ideas developed during the past few years, none tops the option ARM for sheer awfulness. Miller Step right up folks. You say you want to buy a home but have no money.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
July Foreclosure Report
Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent. That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. This shift in percentages shows that a higher proportion U.S. foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes. Foreclosure filings jumped 42 percent nationwide in 2006, accelerating a trend that began in 2005 as home sales started to cool. Last year, 1,259,118 U.S. properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Inch Higher in May
RealtyTrac just released state and national foreclosure statistics for the month of May . The data show nationwide foreclosures inching up 2 percent from the previous month and 28 percent from May 2005. “Our May numbers echo the recent report by the Mortgage Bankers Association, which noted that delinquency and default activities were lower in the first quarter of 2006,” commented James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. “While While our report confirms that the number of properties entering foreclosure is still significantly higher than it was during the same period of 2005, we’ve now seen two months of decreasing foreclosure rates followed by May numbers that were essentially flat.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Short sales rising
Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. Today, approximately 10 percent of the listed properties are short sales. That indicates lenders are getting more eager to unload properties in foreclosure, even if it means selling them for less than is owed on the mortgage. Short sales occur when home prices fall and mortgage debt exceeds the value of the property.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Search: Lessons from Long Beach
A few days ago I spoke to a new RealtyTrac customer who was having trouble tracking down foreclosure property in Long Beach, Calif . havent had any success in pursuing properties." So we looked up some of the properties she was interested in, calledone of the property trustees and walked away with information that Ithink will be helpful both for her and for RealtyTrac. She said something like, "Is the information on your site accurate? I
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation was granted in the form of a foreclosure moratorium at the time. Given today’s economic climate, however, there exists a connection between foreclosures and hurricanes that poses a potentially even greater threat to the residents from Texas to Maine. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant foreclosed homes is so
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
LaTourette (R-Ohio) — who chaired a meeting of the U.S. The topic on the table: the high foreclosure rate in Cuyahoga County — one of the highest in the nation — and what can be done to ease the bleeding. The key focus of the discussion: creating partnerships between community organizations and local and state governments as a viable solution to the problem. It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. One example — Rep.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
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. percent rate of appreciation by the end of 2007, still above the national norm, and still a positive sign that the economy is holding its own. While 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,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A (Relatively) Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel
Foreclosure Market Report issued today, the total number of properties with foreclosure activity in April reached the highest level on a monthly basis since RealtyTrac began issuing the report in January 2005. properties during the month -- certainly a big number, although only a tiny fraction of the nation's 126 million total housing units. According to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure filings were reported on 243,353 U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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MBA Survey Confirms Q1 Foreclosure Surge
The first quarter MBA National Delinquency Survey released today largely supports the findings of the RealtyTrac Q1 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released at the end of April, which found overall foreclosure activity increased 23 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and 112 percent from the first quarter of 2007. That closely mirrored the trend in MBA’s foreclosure rate, which put the percentage of loans in the percent at the end of the first quarter, up 21 percent from the 2.04 percent reported in the fourth quarter of 2007 and up
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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