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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Now the immunity enjoyed by lenders may be at an end. new and surprising player is looking at failed mortgages, and looking in a way which may suggest that many loan officers will have to pay up. 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. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
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. For option ARMs originated in 2006 and 2007 LoanPerformance says that 85 percent of all borrowers are paying no more than the minimum monthly payment (MMP), according to Fitch. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
Already, there’s a glut of McMansions in the $500,000 to $1 million range that have been foreclosed by lenders — and many more are falling into foreclosure, according to an analysis of RealtyTrac foreclosure records in 2006 and 2007 (see graphic). That was up 169 percent over 2006. Maricopa’s Millionaire Mortgage Meltdown If Beverly 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.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
Based on data collected between December 18 and December 21, 2006, the survey cited three major conclusions: That the overall market share of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) as a whole declined in 2006 as the savings gap in interest rates between ARMs and fixed-rate mortgages shrank; Lenders offered greater incentives (discounts) in 2006 in order to maintain the flow of ARM originations coming in the door; and Hybrid loans — particularly the very popular 5/1 ARM where the teaser interest rate is fixed for five years before the lender can push the interest rate upward — became the most popular
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Inch Higher in May
RealtyTrac just released state and national foreclosure statistics for the month of May . The data show nationwide foreclosures inching up 2 percent from the previous month and 28 percent from May 2005. “Our May numbers echo the recent report by the Mortgage Bankers Association, which noted that delinquency and default activities were lower in the first quarter of 2006,” commented James J. While our report confirms that the number of properties entering foreclosure Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac. “While That three-month trend indicates
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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 . Declining numbers are being felt across the board in residential building permits, housing starts (projected to be down 10 percent for 2006 and another 6 percent in 2007) and completions, resulting in a total $64 billion drop in residential construction. Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. That question is: “What IF housing prices plummet?”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Flat in October
The report showed a total of 224,451 foreclosure filings, including default notices, auction notices and bank repossessions for the month, still up 94 percent from October 2006. Default notices were down nearly 9 percent in October, indicating that some of the efforts on the part of homeowners, lenders and advocacy groups to find alternatives to foreclosure may be starting to have an impact," he said. "On U.S. Foreclosure activity increased 2 percent in October, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
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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. And it is one of the reasons that foreclosure activity is expected to remain at a slow upward rate of increase, as evidenced by the latest national numbers reported by RealtyTrac for May 2006. So anyone who has owned a home for more than two years may have a Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
That report showed a 24 percent drop in home sales both year-to-date and year-over-year through May 2006. Yet despite lower sales volume, FAR also reported that the states median home price continues to go up -- 11 percent on a yearly basis from May 2005, and 15 percent year-to-date, giving some credence to the 71 percent of homeowners surveyed by The Fund who believe that affordability is the biggest obstacle to homeownership in the state. Such consumer confidence does 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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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 . The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
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. At the local level Cuyahoga County went from the county with the highest foreclosure rate in the state — one foreclosure filing for every 453 households in May — down to the seventh highest foreclosure rate in the state — one foreclosure filing for every 508 households — for June. It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
percent in 2006, generating $16 billion in sales. Moreover, an owner or tenant living in the house may or may not be cooperative about moving out. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
This sheds light on some of the most recent foreclosure statistics published by RealtyTrac (see our latest report) , which show decreasing numbers of new filings in March and April, and May numbers up only slightly. The current Chapman estimate is for 226,000 jobs to be created by year-end 2006, with another 150,000 jobs added during 2007. Since unemployment California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University suggest that the number of foreclosures for the state will continue to dwindle for the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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