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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing payments. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. "I Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
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- 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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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest level since early 2004, according to the National Association of Realtors . Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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For Some, Mortgage Meltdown Means Opportunity
Although the trend started late in 2005, it accelerated to 1.2 As the market for risky mortgages collapses, dragging home values and stock prices down with it, many real estate investors and home buyers are seeing opportunities emerging on the horizon. With fewer loans, fewer sales and fewer options available to struggling subprime borrowers, the future looks bleak for subprime lenders and their battered customers. Cracks are appearing in the foundation of the housing market as shock waves — triggered by concern over a surge in bad subprime mortgages — jolted the stock market this week, sending the Dow Jones industrial average downward by more than 243 points, amid fears that a mortgage meltdown in the subprime lending sector could have broader economic implications.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
Foreclosure filings jumped 42 percent nationwide in 2006, accelerating a trend that began in 2005 as home sales started to cool. properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according to RealtyTrac research . It’s true that foreclosures could have a negative impact on the housing market if they continue to increase at this rate.” Read the full report . Posted 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). That report showed a 24 percent drop in home sales both year-to-date and year-over-year through May 2006. Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with it being a second home community, people from out of state With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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March Goes Out Like a Lamb
Even with the drop, over 100,000 new properties entered some stage of foreclosure in March, and the foreclosure rate still represented a 63% increase over March 2005. Will Spring sales keep foreclosure rates from creeping up? rsharga Posted 04-18-2006 6:37 PM by Rick Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends A glimmer of hope or the calm before the storm? Whichever way you choose to view it, the good news is that the national foreclosure rate dropped by 13% in March,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Greed and Deceit Get Their Comeuppance in Any Cycle
It’s a recurring theme in the real estate industry; mostly visible in the financial sector, although one would have to be a fool to believe it didn’t take place in every aspect of the real estate transaction. Although these two events took place during different real estate cycles and economies, comeuppance was similarly swift for both. Greed and deceit. And let’s not forget all the news stories out there about mortgage and foreclosure scams these days.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Make Food, Not Foreclosures
Similar to other parts of the nation’s Rust Belt, the county’s real estate market — particularly Detroit — is suffering. Contributing to the downfall are high unemployment, low home sales volume and deflating home prices. Urban Farming has been doing this around the country since it was founded in 2005. A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that Wayne County, Mich.,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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