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Don't Dump Investors
The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. They thought long-term instead of quarterly; made sure their underwriting standards made sense and now show profits.” Which lenders? The result is that the company has small expenses and few bad loans so it costs Hudson about 20 cents to create an additional dollar of revenue versus the industry standard of roughly 61 cents. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know about your loan officer?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
branches and agencies of foreign banks, found that 75 percent of those banks had tightened lending standards for prime loans since the previous survey, in April. Standards were tightened even more for “nontraditional” loans — 85 percent of banks that originate that type of loan said they had tightened standards on those loans. And six out of seven banks that originate subprime loans said they 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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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
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 . percent from May 2007 to a level below where home prices stood back in January 2000. ldquo;The In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. For Countrywide , the second quarter of the year was a real let down with the company drawing from an $11.5 Now with the first week of October Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent decline in prices from the first quarter of 2007 — the largest yearly decline in the 20-year history of the index. “The ldquo;The steep downturn in residential real estate continues,” said David M. Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
The fact that refinancing is out of the question for many distressed homeowners now that lending standards have been tightened all over the country. And the fact that the number of vacant homes had risen to more than 2 million units at year-end 2007. At the national level he believes real relief that will stabilize the nation’s housing sector and help it recover will come with the support of such programs as the FHA Secure Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
percent in 2007, the industry’s biggest drop in four decades, the Commerce Department said. The builders most at risk are Standard Pacific Homes of Irvine Calif., K. If 2007 was the year of the extinction of subprime lenders, then 2008 could shape up to be the year that decimated U.S 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know about your loan officer?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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