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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front in the mortgage responsibility debate. Interstate Commerce At first it may seem odd that mortgages are a federal matter since loans are secured by real estate and nothing is more local than dirt. But both real estate and mortgages have been considered within the stream of interstate commerce for decades. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage meltdown is the sense that folks who
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially
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- 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. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Priced to Foreclose
A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. homes are appreciating at the slowest quarterly rate since the firstquarter of 2004. The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year home
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
Doti, president of Chapman University, updated his 2006 economic forecast for the nation, he did have one question that could throw a monkey wrench into the equation, and he called it, THE BIG IF . That question is: “What IF housing prices plummet?” If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. For subscribers to RealtyTrac the answer to that question is worth considering.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: the Coming California Crash?
California foreclosure investors now have an opportunity to tap the knowledge of a 25-year real estate investing veteran who correctly predicted the last two major swings in the California real estate market and is on the verge of correctly predicting another. “Bruce Bruce Norris was dead right” about home prices in California doubling in the early 2000s after hitting bottom in 1997, said Michael Carney, Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Carney went on to say that he thinks Norris’ latest prediction, made in early 2006, that foreclosures will soar and home prices will plummet in the next few years is also likely to be correct.
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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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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern California’s cooling housing market as a somewhat cryptic slowing of demand for housing in 2006. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 Home sales and housing starts, the report estimates, will both drop (12 percent and 26 percent respectively) with home prices declining on a Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon, and as air currents are changing, pilots are starting to throttle back and slow things down a bit, and distressed homeowners are belted into their seats as they find themselves in for a more bumpy ride in the foreseeable future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. 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. FDIC) reports that job growth in Ohio was less than half the national average during 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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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
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. 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). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those two
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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