8 Articles match "2007","Houses","New York"

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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. During the housing boom, Wall Street began repackaging mortgage securities into instruments called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, and selling slices of these securities to investors at varying levels of risk. You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Celebrity Foreclosures
  
  Rich people, it turns out, are just as vulnerable as poor folks to foreclosure. New York Post celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil today reported that Veronica Hearst, the widow and third wife of Randolph “Randy” A. In March 2007, the Hearst mansion — known locally as the Villa Venezio — was put on the market by the Corcoran Group for $27 million. Hearst, is fighting foreclosure proceedings on her 5.1 acre oceanfront estate in Manalapan, just south of Palm Beach, Fla.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Back to Wait and See for the Fed
  
  percent back in August 2007 down to 2 percent last month, the Fed has decided to go back to the wait-and-see stance Chairman Ben Bernanke established when he first took over the reins of the agency back in August 2006. This move by the Fed is recognition of the fact that further increases in oil prices threaten the economy by pushing up prices in goods and services, according to the New York Times . The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  2007). More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. percent during the first quarter of 2008, the same rate of increase as tracked for the fourth quarter 2007. One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  Although he believes the $152 million economic stimulus package President Bush and Congress approved last month will help somewhat, Engle, a professor at New York University, is disappointed in the performance of the housing sector enough to blame it as the chief reason that a recession is likely. “What I’m hoping is that this sector of the economy doesn’t get legislated away. According to the Chapman Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment, while responses to the survey were negative when it came to the current and future economic conditions (to the lowest level seen since
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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. The rising trend of prime delinquencies among the wealthy poses a new threat to a battered housing market, which McCabe and others specialists claim is in a recession or heading towards one. “The next
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. See: From the New Deal, a Way Out of a Mess, The New York Times, Feb. 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 to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• 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. Housing prices must fall to get the national average from 200K down below from 70K to reset the housing market and get equities back in line with reality." What is it that has so many people mad with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller 
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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