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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The result is that fees and commissions earned during the past few years have been virtually untouched, even as substantial numbers of lenders, investors and borrowers have failed. 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
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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. In a lot of the bubble markets — like Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Orange County and the Inland Empire in California — we are going to see an increase in the number of high-end foreclosures in relatively
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
At first glance, the numbers that Dr. Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This Based on his latest property surveys (conducted December 2006), the Director of Research and Analytics for Christopher Cagan works with on a daily basis look scary – especially when he’s talking about billions and trillions of dollars.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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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 those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. 28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F. The home had been fraudulently purchased by Jamie Edelkind who was sentenced for 5 years in jail. Thats Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. Kennedy’s grandfather sold at auction at a steep discount Tuesday for the price of $950,000.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
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, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast for 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. In a lot of the bubble markets — like Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Las Vegas, Orange County and the Inland Empire in California — we are going to see an increase in the number of high-end foreclosures in relatively
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. percent from their peak in July 2006. "There Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
Take San Diego, for example, where the median price of a home jumped from $249,000 to $567,000 in five years (2000-2005). Not only is San Diego unaffordable for many first-time home buyers, but, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for August 2006 , the city also had the third highest number of foreclosures in California with a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 745 households — 1.35 Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble?
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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 to RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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