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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This million adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) originated between 2004 and 2006 (valued at approximately $2.2 At first glance, the numbers that Dr. Christopher Cagan works with on a daily basis look scary
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
    Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Foreclosure Thriller — Pay Up or Beat It
    The sprawling Jackson estate — located at 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road — sits on 2,800 acres of rolling hills in California’s wine county north of Santa Barbara. acres of beachfront property, the 32,000 square foot trophy mansion — complete with 9-bedrooms and 12 full bathrooms — was originally built in 1929 for the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Posted 03-07-2008 4:36 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions , Foreclosure Trends
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
    A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
    Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This million adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) originated between 2004 and 2006 (valued at approximately $2.2 At first glance, the numbers that Dr. Christopher Cagan works with on a daily basis look scary
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • The Fed Rate Decision is Ongoing'
    When I was in business school at the University of Southern California we spoke of an “ongoing concern” meaning a business enterprise of supposedly infinite duration. Even the National Association of Realtors, which originally thought the nation’s housing market would turn around significantly by year-end 2007, is pulling back a bit on its forecast , now calling for home sales to stabilize where they are this year, with noticeable improvement in sales activity by mid-2008. The Federal Reserve is starting to sound like a broken record. Oops!
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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