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Don't Dump Investors
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. Why is someone who invests in real estate a “speculator” while corporations that lose billions of dollars hedging mortgage-based securities can count on the Federal Reserve to reduce short-term interest rates to bail them out? Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
There is no competitor or group of competitors that can take over what they do in the short term, say a year or two, or maybe ever. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The short answer is that it’s set up to reduce mortgage fraud and assure that state-licensed loan officers meet minimum educational requirements. The sale of residential mortgages allows local lenders to have fresh capital which can then be used to originate more loans. study by the Miami Herald found that just in Florida “from 2000 to 2007, regulators allowed at least 10,529 people with criminal records to work in the mortgage National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 Doti expects the Federal Reserve to hold fast in 2007, keeping the much-watched Federal Funds Rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend money to each other) at or near its current 5.25 The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
That said, foreclosure levels for 2007 are more likely to be a continuation of 2006, rather than a reprise of the early 1990s when foreclosures were rampant due to extensive job losses, high interest rates, high inflation and a resulting recession. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
percent from May 2007. percent from May 2007. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., real estate market is still declining.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
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, Doti, along with his colleague Essie Adibi, director of the Anderson Center, are diligently standing by their 2007 forecast made last December that real GDP will pickup for the second quarter of 2007 (2.1 The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A Small Silver Lining in Q1 Foreclosure Storm
On the other hand, those exceptions could just turn out to be a source of false hope, perpetuated in part by short-term foreclosure solutions that are about as effective as a five-gallon bailing bucket on the sinking Titanic. Foreclosure activity in Detroit was down nearly 4 percent from the first quarter of 2007, although the citys foreclosure rate still ranked No. 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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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5 The rationale given for the move was the intensification of what the Fed continues to refer to as the nation’s housing “correction” which, by the way, has been ongoing for the better part of 2007. percent. This latest move represents the second such lowering of rates by the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in as many meetings.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
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. Under the FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008 (the HSHR Act), the FHA proposes to guarantee up to $300 billion in new mortgages to refinance existing eligible mortgages originated between January 1, 2005 and July 1, 2007, the report notes. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 percent from February 2007, although the median home price of a new home increased 8.2 When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
billion credit facility to help keep it afloat, followed by announced workforce cutbacks shortly thereafter. 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 Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
2007). After 17 consecutive upward “adjustments” as they were called under former Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Fed under current Chairman Ben Bernanke has now cut short-term rates seven times in eight months. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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