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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
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 option adjustable rate mortgages," option ARMs are the most complex residential loan products ever offered.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
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 wealthy communities. 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). 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 Foreclosure Filings Surpass 1.2 Million
million foreclosure filings were reported nationwide during 2006, up 42 percent from 2005 and a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 92 households, according to the RealtyTrac 2006 U.S. The number of total foreclosure filings rose from about 885,000 in 2005 to 1,259,118 in 2006. The 2006 total represents more than 1 percent of U.S. More than 1.2 Foreclosure Market Report released yesterday.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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Foreclosures Inch Higher in 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 is still significantly higher than it was during the same period of 2005, we’ve now seen two months of decreasing foreclosure rates followed by May numbers that were essentially flat.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
But whether you count by total foreclosure filings or number of properties affected by foreclosure, foreclosure activity is up more than 55 percent from the first half of 2006. “The It’s interesting to note that the total foreclosure filings and unique property counts reveal almost identical trends on the national level: foreclosure filings are up 39 percent from the previous six months and 56 percent from the first half of 2006; unique property counts are up 32 percent from the previous six months and up 58 percent from the first half of 2006.” More than 925,000 foreclosure filings were reported on more than 573,000 properties in the first half of 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Midyear 2007 U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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U.S. Foreclosure Activity Dips in February
February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from January but up 12 percent from February 2006. million foreclosures for 2007, which would be a 33 percent increase from 2006 — still below the 42 percent year-over-year increase documented between 2005 and 2006. It appears that as subprime and FHA loans default at higher than anticipated rates, and lenders tighten their underwriting standards, we’re going to continue to see a spike in the number of homeowners facing foreclosure," he said. RealtyTrac released its February U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today, and the report shows
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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US Foreclosures a Mixed Blessing in Q2
As the most recently collected data reported today in RealtyTracs Q2 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report suggests, there is both an upside and a downside to the latest numbers. On the positive side, foreclosure activity nationwide during Q2 2006 rose 25 percent over the same quarter last year to 272,109 properties . This is good news for real estate investors, agents and home buyers looking for a piece of the American Dream at a potentially more affordable price. On the flip side, however, foreclosure activity nationwide decreased 16 percent between the first and second
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
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 Moreover, the state ranked 11 th nationally in total number of foreclosures for August 2006, an increase of 95 percent over August 2005. 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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Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
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 foreseeable future. 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. None of the factors that contributed to the last great rush in the state’s foreclosure pipeline back in the early 1990s is present this time around.
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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 research
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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First Quarter Foreclosure Stats
RealtyTrac released foreclosure numbers for the first quarter of 2006 yesterday, and they show the nations foreclosures moving higher forthe fourth consecutive quarter, despite a decrease in March. The report documents 323,102 properties nationwide entering some stageof foreclosure in the first quarter, a 38 percent increase from theprevious quarter and a 72 percent year-over-year increase from thefirst quarter of 2005. The nation’s quarterly foreclosure rate of onenew foreclosure for every 358 U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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