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Don't Dump Investors
These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through a loan modification or re-financing, stay in their homes.” 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. Its not the governments job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford.” Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
This is a huge issue because at the end of 2007 the United States had residential mortgages worth $10.5 The purchaser will not own any assets other than those sold pursuant to this transaction. billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. lot of loan servicers, How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie in the window?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. 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. It can make its own. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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May Home Prices Down 4.8 Percent
Home prices were down again in May, but a few regions of the country experienced a ever-slight uptick in prices from the previous month, giving officials at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) a chance to be cautiously optimistic in the press release announcing the numbers. "It Nationwide, the OFHEO report showed home prices in May were down 0.3 quot;It is very hard to draw conclusions from a one-month number, especially in these uncertain times; but the numbers in the Pacific, East and West North Central Divisions may be good signs," said OFHEO Director James B.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. percent rate of appreciation by the end of 2007, still above the national norm, and still a positive sign that the Reaching a double-digit peak above 14 percent before dropping back to 9 percent over the past six months, the rate of price appreciation is still more than double the norm (4 percent) for the nation over time.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
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 the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Las Vegas
Shari Springer Springer Realty The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported May 6 that 1,794 single-family homes were sold in April, a 21.4 percent jump over the 1,478 homes sold in March. percent higher than April 2007. The sales are 29.9 Properties owned by banks and other lenders are accounting for more than half of all the homes sold each month.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community. percent from May 2007. percent from May 2007. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., real estate market is still declining.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Make Food, Not Foreclosures
Just like it was in 2007, Wayne County has been a hotbed of foreclosure activity in Michigan so far in 2008. Contributing to the downfall are high unemployment, low home sales volume and deflating home prices. Taja Seville, founder of Urban Farming, says the gardens cultivated would be left unfenced to allow people to pick their own produce. A non-profit group has launched a program to turn former foreclosures into farmland. National Public Radio is reporting that the non-profit group Urban Farming requested that Wayne County, Mich.,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Feb. Foreclosure Report: Are We at Bottom Yet?
February foreclosure activity was down 4 percent from the previous month but still up 57 percent from February 2007, according to the latest RealtyTrac U.S. That premise is supported by looking at the numbers in February 2007, when U.S. View full February report. Posted 03-13-2008 2:01 AM by joelc Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Foreclosure Market Report . So does the monthly decrease mean weve hit a ceiling of sorts for this cycle in terms of foreclosures?
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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. The bottom line is: more homeowners — who most likely bought more home than their budgets could 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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