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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Of all the mortgage ideas developed during the past few years, none tops the option ARM for sheer awfulness. 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 with results that will be devastating to borrowers, loan portfolios and local home values. How They Work Formally known as "payment
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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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Many homeowners who bought around the top of the market, back in 2004 through 2006, are now stuck with having purchased more home than they could afford. Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct a short sale, the foreclosing lender has to agree to it, essentially agreeing to accept less money than it is owed on the loan secured by the house. A short sale is not a vehicle normally seen during Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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California Tops PMI's Risk Index
Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the nation, scores increased for 34 out of the nation’s top 50 over a year earlier, with an average score of 342. Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Based on a 1000 point scale, that score translates into a 34.2
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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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 percent year-over-year increase reported in the third quarter of 2006. percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Priced to Foreclose
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. Many of the states near thebottom of that list -- namely Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, Texas and Georgia -- also appeared among the top 10 on RealtyTracs list of state foreclosure rates in the first quarter. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans. During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. During the housing boom, Wall Street began repackaging mortgage securities into instruments called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, and selling slices of these securities to investors at varying levels of risk. You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Michigan Goes Hollywood to Help Homeowners
Rather, it’s more of a “reality” television show. The State of Michigan is hitting the airwaves with a cable television show of its own called “House Michigan” aimed at promoting homeownership and everything that entails. Since January 2006 Michigan has ranked in RealtyTrac’s top 10 states with the greatest foreclosure activity in the nation, most of that time maintaining a position in the top five. Lights! Camera!
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
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). Between those two extremes, other concerns included: a burst of the housing bubble, rising mortgage rates and depreciating home values. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosure rate has moved higher, and it’s the second straight month new foreclosures have topped 100,000. Texas and Florida were on top in terms of sheer number of foreclosures. For some people, foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. The state hit its peak towards the end of the year, taking the nation’s top spot for September, October and November. That said, foreclosure A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals. Economic data released recently by
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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