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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 it comes
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
The Hudson down payment numbers contrast strongly with national averages: The National Association of Realtors reports that in 2007 the typical first-time buyer put down just 2 percent, repeat buyers had 16 percent down payments and 25 percent of all purchasers bought with nothing down. As Hermance points out, “we make loans we’re willing to live with.” The performance at Hudson has not gone unnoticed: The stock is up 1,100 percent since the company went public ten years ago. ING DIRECT In 2005 the federal government moved to tighten bankruptcy rules in a way that would make debt
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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 profit-seeking "companies" in the sense of shareholders and being in business but they are also GSEs -- government-sponsored enterprises, companies started by the federal government and companies endowed with huge competitive advantages: They do not pay state income taxes, they each have a $2.25 Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Can The FHA Rescue Plan Work?
With the country facing a massive foreclosure crisis the Bush Administration has tweaked Federal Housing Administration rules in a way that ought to be applaude
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- Wednesday, September 19, 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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Can The FHA Rescue Plan Work?
With the country facing a massive foreclosure crisis the Bush Administration has tweaked Federal Housing Administration rules in a way that ought to be applaude
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, September 19, 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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Judge's Ruling May Slow Foreclosures Nationwide
With mortgage practices under fire on Capitol Hill and across the country, a federal court in Cleveland has now turned up the heat on lenders with a remarkable decisio
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- Thursday, December 6, 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
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Judge's Ruling May Slow Foreclosures Nationwide
With mortgage practices under fire on Capitol Hill and across the country, a federal court in Cleveland has now turned up the heat on lenders with a remarkable decisio
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- Thursday, December 6, 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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