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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. As one example, Hermance says that of 50,000 New Jersey mortgages his bank bought back just two properties during a recent 12-month period. percent of No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
July Foreclosure Report
foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released today. View state-by-state details . That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. U.S. Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
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 Doti expects the Federal Reserve to hold fast in 2007, keeping the much-watched Federal Funds Rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend money to each other) at or near its current 5.25 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
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. 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. A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Governor Suspends Controversial Law Affecting Investors
But House Bill 4050 (renamed Public Act 94-280) is now null and void, which should be a relief to real estate investors and prospective homebuyers looking for bargain property in south Chicago . Rod Blagojevich suspended the law on January 19, 2007. For legitimate investors looking to help homeowners in distress, the law’s suspension is welcome news. It was controversial when it took effect, and it remained controversial until public officials decided enough was enough – roughly a little more than a year later. Responding to the public outcry of legislative redlining,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
The fact that refinancing is out of the question for many distressed homeowners now that lending standards have been tightened all over the country. And the fact that the number of vacant homes had risen to more than 2 million units at year-end 2007. Bernanke said he wants to institute measures that will reduce “preventable” foreclosures to stave off the erosion of property values and municipal tax bases in communities across Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
And the projections are that there will be much more foreclosure activity in 2007 and 2008, especially as the effects of an estimated $1 trillion in “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages start being felt. So as we pause to celebrate Thanksgiving, now is a good time to reflect on how we can all help the needy — including needy and distressed homeowners — to live better in the future. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a time we take to reflect on our lives and what we can do to make the world a better place in which to live. Volunteers go out and serve meals to the hungry, religious and
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
During the last housing slump, Paulson was a foreclosure investor, buying two distressed properties; a New York apartment and a large home in the Hampton on Long Island. As the more and more subprime mortgage giants tumbled throughout 2007, Paulson’s funds racked up even more gains. “Mortgage You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. With home prices continuing to decline, both on a monthly and yearly basis, it stands to reason that distressed homeowners are not out of the woods yet if they need to sell their homes to escape foreclosure. For potential homebuyers, investors and real estate professionals, it means the flow of foreclosed properties should continue into the indefinite future — at least until home prices stabilize 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 .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
It doesn’t matter if you’re living in Florida or California — coastal property is expensive and so are the insurance premiums that go with them. Foreclosure Market Report. Add to that the fact that many of those homeowners who bought during the past two years financed their home purchase with one of those high-risk adjustable rate mortgages that is due to reset in 2007 or 2008 — and there is something for them to worry about. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
Reich pointed to the FHASecure program as an example, where 116,000 loans have closed since the program was launched in September 2007, but only 1,500 of them were made to refinance delinquent conventional loans. Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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