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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. 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. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing
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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. The ability to afford a bigger mortgage also meant the ability to buy a bigger and better house. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
million foreclosure filings predicted by RealtyTrac for 2007, the floodgates are open once again, just not as wide as they were in the early 1990s, and with a finite number projected. Here are some examples of what is being done to help turn the tide and stop foreclosure quickly for distressed homeowners looking for a way out: Early in 2007 Sen. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 Not coincidentally, Michigan documented the nation’s second highest foreclosure rate in January 2007, according to RealtyTrac’s U.S percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
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. Considering that the housing market is expected to continue to be slow through 2007, there could be increases in mortgage delinquencies — especially among high risk subprime loans. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
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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 percent
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate. homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. But for many U.S. This week, Florida-based homebuilder Tousa Inc.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
Things were bad enough in 2007 when Countrywide Financial, along with many other mortgage lenders, was pummeled by rising defaults and foreclosures — forcing a slew of lenders to either close down their subprime divisions and lay off employees, or close their doors altogether. Generally recognized as the nation’s largest lender, as it turns out Countrywide ended 2007 in even worse condition than was imagined. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective. Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. Titled the “Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007,”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
million foreclosure filings predicted by RealtyTrac for 2007, the floodgates are open once again, just not as wide as they were in the early 1990s, and with a finite number projected. Here are some examples of what is being done to help turn the tide and stop foreclosure quickly for distressed homeowners looking for a way out: Early in 2007 Sen. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Citigroup came out with a press statement last week projecting that the company will suffer a 60 percent decline in third quarter income between 2006 and 2007. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
House of Representatives earlier this week, John M. Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Reich pointed to the FHASecure program as an example, where 116,000 loans have closed since the program was launched in September 2007, but only 1,500 of them were made to refinance delinquent conventional loans. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. Representing the interests of the 826
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Coastal Disasters = More Foreclosures?
Foreclosure Market Report. Add to that the fact that many of those homeowners who bought during the past two years financed their home purchase with one of those high-risk adjustable rate mortgages that is due to reset in 2007 or 2008 — and there is something for them to worry about. Most lenders will not fund a loan for a house that is uninsured. For anyone who has lived through a natural disaster, the recent tornadoes in Central Florida and the horrific aftermath left behind — approximately 1,500 structures destroyed and 20 people killed — brings back memories of more than just the great need for disaster relief from the federal government (FEMA).
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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