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Don't Dump Investors
Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, could not be more clear: He suggests that the government should develop a federal program to buy out mortgages from lenders, just as it did during the Depression — to “refinance only owner-occupied residences. 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. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When
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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. For option ARMs originated in 2006 and 2007 LoanPerformance says that 85 percent of all borrowers are paying no more than the minimum monthly payment (MMP), according to Fitch. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
And based on the latest available national economic data, indications for the remainder of 2006 through 2007 are consistent with RealtyTrac’s May 2006 U.S. Doti, president of Chapman University, expects Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to raise the Federal Funds Rate three more times – 25 basis points each time – ratcheting the short-term rate up to 5.75 percent before dropping back slightly in 2007. Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year. Foreclosure Market
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Should Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Bail Out Private Lenders?
It was just a few months ago that worries about the mortgage marketplace were dismissed by the Federal Reserve, a view which changed markedly in late Augus
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- Friday, October 5, 2007
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Should Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Bail Out Private Lenders?
It was just a few months ago that worries about the mortgage marketplace were dismissed by the Federal Reserve, a view which changed markedly in late Augus
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- Friday, October 5, 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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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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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
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. At the end of the day, it will all amount to an economic environment in 2007 that will not be kind to distressed homeowners who need to sell to avoid foreclosure. 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
With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. Still, Doti, along with his colleague Essie Adibi, director of the Anderson Center, are diligently standing by their 2007 forecast made last December that real GDP will pickup for the second quarter of 2007 (2.1 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Two Counts Show Foreclosure Activity Rising
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. The addition of this (property count) metric to our foreclosure report was spurred by a data request for unique property addresses from the Federal Reserve Bank, which is using our data for market and risk analysis, and we believe it will serve as a valuable complement to the total foreclosure filing count that we have been including all along,” said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s vice president of marketing. “It’s
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
The results of a new survey released today by the Federal Reserve confirms what many people looking to buy or refinance already know — it’s hard to get approved for a loan. It’s good that banks are adopting more stringent lending guidelines than the virtually nonexistent ones they employed with the 2005 to 2007 vintage mortgages — which turned out to be highly susceptible to foreclosure. The Fed’s July 2008 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey , which covered 52 domestic banks and 21 U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks, found that 75
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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. While everyone is worrying what the Federal Reserve is going to do next to try and stabilize the economy and keep it from falling deeper into recession, a slight bit of good news also came out this week with the announcement that home prices rose 0.6 According to the official statement of the Office 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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