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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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 Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners into foreclosure, providing new opportunities for real estate investors, speculators, real estate agents and anyone looking to buy a home from the foreclosure pipeline. Declining numbers are being felt across the board in residential building permits, housing starts (projected to be down 10 percent for 2006 and another 6 percent in 2007) and completions, resulting in a total $64 billion drop in residential construction. Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” 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 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
All well known names in the world of finance, and all are now feeling the pinch due to an unstable real estate mortgage market and the lasting impacts the subprime mortgage crisis is having on their bottom lines. For Countrywide , the second quarter of the year was a real let down with the company drawing from an $11.5 billion credit facility to help Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
Add mounting mortgage payments to the credit card debt and a gloomier picture emerges for overextended borrowers — in part because so many homeowners are now trapped by payments that are about to soar, even as the real estate market slumps. Rising interest rates have caught many homeowners in a “can’t pay, can’t sell, can’t refinance” vise, in which their ARM payments are outpacing their incomes and their homes have not appreciated enough to help cover the cost of a refinanced mortgage or to allow them to sell and walk away. Debt! No word better describes why millions of
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Thanksgiving a Time to Reflect . . . on Foreclosures Too!
We live in a country where we have the freedom to do almost whatever we want. — including the opportunity to own and invest in real estate. 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. As a legitimate real estate investor, professional, or potential home buyer, the next couple of 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.
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- 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. Today’s action, combined with the policy action taken in September, should help forestall some of the adverse effects on the broader economy that might otherwise arise from the disruptions in financial markets and promote moderate growth over time,” the FOMC said in a statement published October 31. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
And the fact that the number of vacant homes had risen to more than 2 million units at year-end 2007. Or to utilize principal writedowns or short payoffs to help out homeowners with little or no equity left. At the national level he believes real relief that will stabilize the nation’s housing sector and help it recover will come with the support of such programs as the FHA Secure program and the HOPE NOW alliance coalition, as well as hastening the modernization of 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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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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