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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 At the same time, the Merrill discount may be too steep for owners without a pressing need to sell their mortgage paper. ____________________ Peter G. 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
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
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little percent from July 2007, the smallest annual decline among the 20 cities tracked in the report, followed by Dallas, which reported a 2.5 In my opinion, we are going to see around 50% home price drop from peak in 2007(for south land) before price can stabilize. If you move westward other cities like Upland, 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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"Subprime" voted 2007 Word of the Year
The American Dialect Society has chosen subprime as the word of the year for 2007, reflecting a “preoccupation of the press and public for the past year with the deepening mortgage crisis.” The society defines subprime as “an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage or investment.” The preoccupation with the subprime loan fallout also prompted the society to create a new category for its 18 th annual words-of-the-year vote: real estate words.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year . But my main point was that the 8 percent monthly increase was low compared to the last two January monthly percentage increases (2007 and 2006), both of which were double-digit.
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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 percent from May 2007. 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. Lockhart in the release.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
The worst of the downward national housing price spiral is not over,” said economist and Chapman President James Doti in a press release distributed Tuesday . “Our 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, 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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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007. Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 percent in 2005.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. Washington, Los Angeles, New York and Miami are highlighted in a S&P press release as the best performing markets overall since January 2000. Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
Foreclosure activity in Detroit was down nearly 4 percent from the first quarter of 2007, although the citys foreclosure rate still ranked No. The Detroit Free Press reported that "Detroit home sales shot up 30.8% The 1 in XX number of households is based just on activity that occurred in the first quarter, so it would not include a property that maybe entered foreclosure at the end of 2007 and is still in foreclosure but did not While foreclosure activity in the first quarter of 2008 was up on a year-over-year basis in 90 percent of the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas, according to the RealtyTrac Q1 report issued today, there were a few notable exceptions that could prove to be a harbinger of hope for the nations battered housing market.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
Located in the upscale Curtis Park neighborhood of Sacramento, the property has gone through the foreclosure auction process and reportedly been purchased by Red Rock Mortgage for $388,000, a far cry from the $535,000 Richardson paid for it back in January 2007. 14, 2007 for $18,356, followed by a Notice of Trustees Sale being recorded on March 19, 2008. Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures. But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
percent from February 2007, although the median home price of a new home increased 8.2 Still, on a yearly basis existing home sales were down almost 24 percent from February 2007, and the national median sales price for all housing types for the month was down 8.2 As the Associated Press reported Tuesday morning, this latest report by the Case-Shiller index, which tracks prices of single-family homes in 10 metropolitan areas around the country, suggests that prices have either been “growing When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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