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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Whether 40-year fixed-rate mortgages will help distressed homeowners who cant afford their monthly mortgage payment keep their property out of foreclosure -- its too early to tell. In that case, as always, investors need Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Lenders help their customers curb foreclosures
As borrowers falling behind on their mortgage payments increase in number, they are getting help form an unlikely source — the mortgage industry. Banks are increasingly testing new strategies to help curb mortgage delinquencies . headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio — is working with churches, social workers and the United Way to help troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure. To prevent potential problems, National City Corp. — Bank of America Corp.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
Speaking at the Independent Community Bankers of America Convention in Orlando, Bernanke noted that 1.5 million subprime loans (or approximately 40 percent of the outstanding stock of subprimes) were going to reset in 2008 from just above 8 percent to about 9.25 Or to utilize principal writedowns or short payoffs to help out homeowners with little or no equity left. 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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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Whether 40-year fixed-rate mortgages will help distressed homeowners who cant afford their monthly mortgage payment keep their property out of foreclosure -- its too early to tell. In that case, as always, investors need Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Federal Lifeline DOA for Most People
As Myers points out in her story, the new housing bill signed by President Bush earlier in the week will help a fraction of the families facing foreclosure. As the mortgage expert she interviewed projected, of the 3 million homeowners currently in distress in this country, this bill will help out maybe 10 to 20 percent. They would not be the first people in America stuck in that situation. After listening to NBC Senior Correspondent Lisa Myers’ story on The Today Show last week, I am more convinced than ever that, as the old saying goes, people want their cake and to eat it too!
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
So were lending institutions like Bank of America , which immediately lowered its prime rate. In a published report released Wednesday, RealtyTrac VP of Marketing Rick Sharga stated that the reduction of the federal funds rate may help moderate future foreclosure activity somewhat in two important ways: 1) some people who may have gone over the edge into foreclosure may be spared if the reduction means the rate on their adjustable rate mortgage isn’t reset as high as originally anticipated; and 2) money that has been held out of the credit pool by investors may find its way to Wall
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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It Used to Be a Day Job
Maybe, if you’re still trying to flip property and utilize day laborers to help clean up an investment property. That, in my estimation, is what America is all abou The far-reaching implications of the nation’s foreclosure crisis continue to snowball a little more every day. In its latest evolution, what started out as the lending industry selling undesirable loans to undeserving/unqualified borrowers who are now going into foreclosure by the thousands, has now filtered down to a lack of jobs for day laborers around the country.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
This is not a new idea other countries use longer terms to help lower income people afford a home. Stop fanning the fantasy of the “American Dream” of owning an outrageous debt for the next 30 years.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
We sold a condo and bought a single-family home.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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