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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
In August 2006, Steven Krystofiak, President of the Mortgage Brokers Association for Responsible Lending , testified before the Federal Reserve and said his group compared the income figures for 100 stated-income loans against borrower tax returns. Ninety percent of the stated-income loan applications showed earnings that were exaggerated by at least 5 percent. Sixty percent of the stated amounts were exaggerated by more than 50 percent. “Stated income loans,” Krystofiak testified , “help no one. Just ask yourself: How many borrowers really knew what “recasting” means or
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
For option ARMs originated in 2006 and 2007 LoanPerformance says that 85 percent of all borrowers are paying no more than the minimum monthly payment (MMP), according to Fitch. With higher home values properties could be readily sold or refinanced with little risk. source of foreclosure listings and data. "With Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their construction loans, mortgage payments, property taxes, auto loans and credit cards at an alarmingly fast pace, according to industry analysts, economists and real estate brokers . Already, there’s a glut of McMansions in the $500,000 to $1 million range that have been foreclosed by lenders — and many more are falling into foreclosure, according to an analysis of RealtyTrac foreclosure
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
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; and Hybrid loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
More than 925,000 foreclosure filings were reported on more than 573,000 properties in the first half of 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Midyear 2007 U.S. The report marks the first time that RealtyTrac has included a count of unique property addresses in some stage of foreclosure. But whether you count by total foreclosure filings or number of properties affected by foreclosure, foreclosure activity is up more than Foreclosure Market Report , released yesterday. The addition of this (property count) metric to our foreclosure report was spurred by a data request for unique
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and second quarters of the year, meaning there are less properties to invest in, thus making the search for properties that will pencil out as a "good deal" even Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Inch Higher in 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. 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. RealtyTrac just released state and national foreclosure statistics for the month of May .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." According to the latest data on the RealtyTrac website, Fort Collins has only 20 properties in the pre-foreclosure stage, but 226 properties are ready to go to auction and another 156 are bank owned (REO). As always, for investors interested in foreclosure property it’s a matter of doing your homework to get And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The severity of that impact, however, is open to discussion — depending, of course, on how you choose to massage the data to prove your point. Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. All those who bought or refinanced
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
According to the RealtyTrac Q2 2006 Foreclosure Market Report , the total number of foreclosures in Ohio actually declined by 30 percent from Q1 2006, although still up 85 percent from Q2 2005. Data supplied by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) FDIC) reports that job growth in Ohio was less than half the national average during Q1 2006. 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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Is Eight Enough?
The number of properties with some sort of foreclosure action against them (default notice, auction notice, bank repossession) has consistently risen for the past eight quarters (see chart). among the states in 2006, according to RealtyTrac. Some state officials initially took issue with the numbers, which engendered an important debate on how to accurately interpret and measure foreclosure While there have been monthly fluctuations up and down during this time period, the quarterly numbers consistently have been up quarter over quarter, and the most recent quarter was no exception, according to the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
And based on the latest available national economic data, indications for the remainder of 2006 through 2007 are consistent with RealtyTrac’s May 2006 U.S. The results of their latest analysis , released Wednesday, indicate that a number of factors are at work supporting the notion of a continued increase in the number of properties entering the foreclosure pipeline, although not skyrocketing to levels seen back in the early 1990s. Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
RealtyTrac was named to the Technology Fast 50 list for 2006 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP at an awards ceremony held Tuesday. Saccacio also thanked a hard working group of employees who are dedicated to servicing the needs of those customers to assure them of the most accurate and up-to-the-minute data possible, along with the most technologically advanced tools available to make researching and investing in foreclosure properties as seamless a process as possible. Based on five-year revenue growth of 4647 percent (2001-2005), RealtyTrac was ranked fourth .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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