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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. Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. They are the largest buyers of U.S. Housing prices must Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller Its been a rough year for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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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. The ability to afford a bigger mortgage also meant the ability to buy a bigger and better house. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 Housing starts are expected to remain down in many parts The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
That said, foreclosure levels for 2007 are more likely to be a continuation of 2006, rather than a reprise of the early 1990s when foreclosures were rampant due to extensive job losses, high interest rates, high inflation and a resulting recession. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 The worst of the downward national housing price spiral is not over,” said economist and Chapman President James Doti in a press release distributed Tuesday . “Our Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., had hoped it would.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. The nation’s foreclosure total already broke the 1 million glass ceiling in October , and just how high foreclosure levels will go in 2007 is open to debate depending on how steep one believes the downturn will be. “When In California, for example, 27 percent of all mortgages were so-called “option ARMs,” where the buyer pays 1 percent Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. Last year, the tumbling housing market claimed such large builders as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Salvation: By Grace or By Works?
The payment for those sins is often foreclosure, but Clinton wants the government to become a Messianic figure for homeowners facing foreclosure — and by default also for many lenders who approved problem loans for those homeowners — by forgiving these sins and bearing the transgressions of malevolent mortgages that no other lender or buyer is willing to touch. "That’s why I believe the Federal Housing Administration should also stand ready to be a temporary buyer — to purchase, restructure, and resell underwater mortgages," Clinton said in the speech at what was billed as the "Solutions for
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Too Soon For a Comeback
percent from March 2007, can’t be certain. percent from $217,400 in March 2007 to $200,700 last month. According to the official statement of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), a monthly increase in prices was reported between January and February 2008 for seven out of the nine census divisions tracked by the agency. percent from their peak back in April 2007. At present it does not appear that there is enough evidence yet to declare that a market comeback is in the offing. The bottom line is that no one can say anything with 100 percent
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. Titled the “Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007,”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
Things were bad enough in 2007 when Countrywide Financial, along with many other mortgage lenders, was pummeled by rising defaults and foreclosures — forcing a slew of lenders to either close down their subprime divisions and lay off employees, or close their doors altogether. Generally recognized as the nation’s largest lender, as it turns out Countrywide ended 2007 in even worse condition than was imagined. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective. Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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