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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
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. Areas where the current foreclosure epidemic is more acute are calling for everything from a moratorium on foreclosures, to setting up consumer helplines, convening expert panels and calling on state and national politicians to introduce legislation to stop the home foreclosure nightmare that the subprime loan fiasco has caused. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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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 quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. Now, in 2009, or will you wait 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Have U.S. Banks Bet The House?
If you remember the good old days of the foreclosure crisis, say about six months ago, the problem was subprime loans, a blip on the financial radar and not a worry for you or your neighbor
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- Monday, December 3, 2007
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Have U.S. Banks Bet The House?
If you remember the good old days of the foreclosure crisis, say about six months ago, the problem was subprime loans, a blip on the financial radar and not a worry for you or your neighbor
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- Monday, December 3, 2007
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MBA Numbers Mirror RealtyTrac Data:
Among subprime borrowers, the rate of delinquencies and foreclosures were much higher, rising to 12.6 percent of all subprime adjustable mortgages were delinquent or going through the foreclosure process in the third quarter. “Third Increases in delinquency rates were noticeably larger for subprime loans, particularly subprime ARMs.” The number of delinquent mortgage payments and foreclosures jumped in recent months, according to a new survey released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association . The MBA’s quarterly report — surveying more than 42 million mortgages
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
Two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested heavily in subprime mortgage securities racked up huge losses last month after they made bad bets on complex securities backed by risky mortgages. The wizards on Wall Street — worried that the subprime mortgage debacle will blow up another hedge fund or a bank, or a bunch of them — fear that financial instability can spread into blind panic. Fear Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month.
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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. Areas where the current foreclosure epidemic is more acute are calling for everything from a moratorium on foreclosures, to setting up consumer helplines, convening expert panels and calling on state and national politicians to introduce legislation to stop the home foreclosure nightmare that the subprime loan fiasco has caused. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. Meanwhile, Wall Street You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
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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. 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. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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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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Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
And six out of seven banks that originate subprime loans said they had tightened lending standards on those loans in the last three months. About 45 percent of loan officers from domestic banks said they expected their banks to tighten lending standards on prime home loans in the second half of they year, and about 65 percent said they expected standards on nontraditional and subprime loans to continue to tighten during the same time period. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering lender’s attempt to survive the subprime mortgage mess — which reportedly almost forced the firm into filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this week. 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. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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