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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
For example, the SEC could limit its investigation to mortgages that were foreclosed within the first 12 to 18 months after origination. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Avoiding, Stopping Foreclosures Information, Helpful Resources, Stop Home Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation. The center offers up proposed solutions to curb increasing foreclosures, including due diligence by lenders before a loan is approved to make sure the borrower is qualified to repay, regulation of predatory lending practices, and coordinated programs to help delinquent homeowners. A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
Between 2000 and 2006, defaults remained low because home prices were rising, interest rates were at historic lows and borrowers who fell behind on payments were able to simply refinance their mortgages — or sell their home for a profit. Pressuring mortgage lenders to helping at-risk borrowers refinance or restructure their adjustable-rate loans into low-interest, fixed-rate 30-year mortgages. A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. Wall Street analysts, main
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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BK' Doesn't Stand for Burger King
percent over 2006 to 822,590 filings (60.9 Once the foreclosing lender gets clearance from the bankruptcy judge on the case by dismissing the stay on the foreclosure, the lender can proceed with the process. Whether the net result is a short sale, a walk away or going through the whole foreclosure process, it seems like the foreclosure fires are likely to be fanned still higher, with more properties being available for home buyers and investors looking to find a bargain in many parts of the country for the foreseeable future. The only kind of whopper a person with this kind of ‘BK’ is going to get is a whopper of a headache.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Is Eight Enough?
among the states in 2006, according to RealtyTrac. The Colorado Division of Housing set up a foreclosure hotline to help people facing foreclosure. The bill also earmarks $4 billion in grants for local communities to buy up foreclosed properties that may be negatively affecting the communities. 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). While there have been monthly fluctuations up and down during this time period, the quarterly
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
For example, the SEC could limit its investigation to mortgages that were foreclosed within the first 12 to 18 months after origination. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
percent from their peak in July 2006. "There quot; And while modest appreciation could resume in late 2009, prices won't be back to their 2006 peak until at least 2016, possibly as late as 2020 in some markets, according to Shulman. (More And that intervention could just be damming up another coming flood of foreclosures or it could actually be having a lasting impact and helping folks stay in their homes for the long term. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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