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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
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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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. housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . Housing starts are expected
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today. Total housing starts rose 9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 million units economists million units in February, higher than the 1.4 That's a welcome rebound following the decline last month, when construction activity nose-dived more than 14 percent.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 The worst of the downward national housing price spiral is not over,” said economist and Chapman President James Doti in a press release distributed Tuesday . “Our Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., had hoped it would.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors . Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. The biggest declines were in Florida-Sarasota-Bradenton (down 18 percent), Palm Bay-Melbourne
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006. Expectation is a key factor in the movement of the real estate market up or down. Are people being pessimistic about their local real estate market? Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. Now the stage is set.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions. The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. 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?” For subscribers to RealtyTrac the answer to that question is worth considering. If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners into foreclosure, providing new opportunities
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Clash of Cultures at CAR Expo
The opening session of what is billed as “Tech Tuesday” at the California Realtor Expo 2006 provided a somewhat unvarnished glimpse into how some Realtors are responding to real estate websites that are lifting the veil on home valuations and other previously hard-to-find real estate data. In short, some Realtors take offense at such sites, which they see as giving consumers a false belief that much of the research involved in a real estate transaction can be done without the help of a Realtor. “I LONG BEACH, Calif. — I don’t think value is
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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 percent as unemployment rises over the next several quarters and inflation continues its flight pattern above the nation’s comfort level “as 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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For Some, Mortgage Meltdown Means Opportunity
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. Warning signs already had begun to manifest themselves last year as the recent housing boom was starting to reverse. Although the trend started late in 2005, it accelerated to 1.2 million foreclosure filings in 2006, up 42 percent
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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