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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. In August 2006, Steven Krystofiak, President of the
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Fitch Ratings says in a just-issued report that option ARMs worth $200 billion are now outstanding. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down loans as well, forcing homes valued at more than $750,000 into foreclosure. 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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2006: An Adjustable' Year for Foreclosures
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (better known as Freddie Mac) has just released the results of its 23rd Annual Adjustable-Rate Mortgage survey of prime loans. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors. That will leave
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Top 10 Metro Foreclosure Rates
Metropolitan ForeclosureMarket Repor t, which ranks the nations 100 largest metro areas byforeclosure rate in the first quarter of 2006. Here are the 10 metroareas with the highest foreclosure rates, along with the percentage ofhouseholds in foreclosure for each area: 1. whichhas low unemployment and strong home price appreciation, but it couldbe that rising interest rates combined with more risky financing aretaking a toll in that area. RealtyTrac today released its first ever U.S. Indianapolis -- 1.45% 2.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Stands Fast on Rate; Little Solace for Homeowners
It wasn’t long after Ben Bernanke took over the reins of the Federal Reserve from Alan Greenspan that he put a halt to the 17 consecutive upward adjustments in the federal funds rate (FFR) — the short-term interest rate banks charge each other — back in August 2006. Although this bodes well for consumer loans, home equity lines of credit, and credit cards, it does little to alleviate the long-term effects starting to be felt by homeowners who signed on to very risky adjustable-rate subprime mortgages during 2005 and 2006. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep its hands-off stance, leaving the FFR at 5.25
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How Much Disclosure Is Enough?
2006 Federal Reserve study found that 20 percent of all ARM borrowers did not know their original loan rat It's hardly a secret that few borrowers fully understand their mortgage options. A
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- Thursday, November 29, 2007
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How Much Disclosure Is Enough?
2006 Federal Reserve study found that 20 percent of all ARM borrowers did not know their original loan rat It's hardly a secret that few borrowers fully understand their mortgage options. A
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- Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the local economy has been steadily losing jobs in the automotive sector, Detroit reported the highest foreclosure rate of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the country for the third quarter of 2006 as well. After two straight quarters when Indianapolis, Atlanta and Dallas led the nation in foreclosure rate, Detroit took over the top spot on the RealtyTrac Q3 2006 U.S. Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report — followed by Ft. Lauderdale and Denver .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Begin 2007 at Two-Year High
That was up 19 percent from the previous month and up 25 percent from January 2006. After dominating the headlines with the highest state foreclosure rate for much of 2006, Colorado’s foreclosure rate dropped to fourth highest among the states thanks to a slight decrease in foreclosure activity in January. Michigan and Georgia ranked second and third among the states in terms of foreclosure rate. New foreclosure activity in January hit its highest level since RealtyTrac began issuing a national foreclosure report two years ago, with 130,511 new foreclosure filings reported during the month.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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