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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  million foreclosure filings predicted by RealtyTrac for 2007, the floodgates are open once again, just not as wide as they were in the early 1990s, and with a finite number projected. Here are some examples of what is being done to help turn the tide and stop foreclosure quickly for distressed homeowners looking for a way out: Early in 2007 Sen. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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 two years
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
  
  Among these loans, Fitch expects roughly $29 billion to recast by the end of 2009 and an additional $67 billion to recast in 2010 -- thats almost half of all the option loans now held by lenders. (See: 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. Introducing the Hope Now program in 2007, President Bush said “weve got a role, the government has got a role to play — but it is limited. The Census Bureau says that at the end of 2007 there were 128 million housing units in the U.S. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  Share values have dropped more 90 percent, investors have lost more than $100 billion, and both companies were rescued by the federal government earlier this month, placed in a government conservatorship run by the newly created Federal Housing Finance Agency. Housing prices must fall to get the national average from 200K down below from 70K to reset the housing market and get equities back in line with reality." What is it that has so many people mad with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller 
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  billion loss reported for Q4 2007, it pales in comparison to the $961 million profit the GSE reported for the same quarter a year ago. Credit-related expenses for the quarter rose from $3 billion for Q4 2007 to $3.2 However, foreclosed property expenses decreased to $170 million for the latest quarter, from $179 million in Q4 2007. It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. And as with many corporations in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
  
  The rationale given for the move was the intensification of what the Fed continues to refer to as the nation’s housing “correction” which, by the way, has been ongoing for the better part of 2007. The problem is, many industry analysts are starting to come around to the idea that this “correction” may not bottom out until either year’s end 2008 or sometime in 2009. In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. quot; And while modest appreciation Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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