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Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 As has been the case for some time, the housing market continues to be a primary source of weakness in the real economy as well as in the financial markets,” Bernanke said. “However, Anyone want to submit their resume now? Posted 10-10-2008 In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. "I Now, in 2009, or will you wait until 2020 when everyone has forgotten about this housing slump and is raving about skyrocketing home prices? Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
million for 2008. Our forecast calls for housing prices to decline around 5 percent before relatively strong job growth helps to bring about a recovery by late 2008.” 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. 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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The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans. By 1994, he started his own hedge fund with $2 million and built it into a $500 million nest egg by 2002. In 2006, Paulson started another hedge fund solely to bet against risky mortgages. As the more and You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How to finance your foreclosure purchase? How about your IRA?
Titled " Buying Investment Property Through Your IRA ," the article offers a wealth of information on how to use funds already in your IRA to invest in different types of properties. k) during the 2000 dot-bomb induced stock market implosion, the notion of investing retirement funds in real estate assets is something Im very interested in exploring. If any of you have tried this, If youre looking for creative ways to finance an investment in a foreclosure property, you may not need to look much further than your retirement account. A good article ran today in Lew Sichelmans
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month. Two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested heavily in subprime mortgage securities racked up huge losses last month after they made bad bets on complex securities backed by risky mortgages. The meltdown of the two funds has sent tremors through financial markets, causing investors to reassess their appetite for this type of risk.
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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 problem is, many industry analysts are starting to come around to the idea that this “correction” may not bottom out until either year’s end 2008 or sometime in 2009. 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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Economic Environment Not Ripe for Heavy Foreclosure Levels
trade deficit may not be concerns for real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and real estate agents eager to get into the foreclosure business, theyre of major concern to the Federal Reserve, and putting big-time pressure on interest rates. The hikes we’re continuing to see in the Federal Funds Rate should be a point of focus for those interested in dealing in foreclosures. Economics 201 – Inflation In announcing his findings on the condition of the nation’s economy Wednesday, Chapman University President James L. Doti proclaimed that, in his opinion,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 For investors, real estate agents and potential homebuyers looking to RealtyTrac’s radar screen for answers, we will continue to monitor the Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon, and as air currents are changing, pilots are starting to throttle back and slow things down a bit, and distressed homeowners are belted into their seats as they find themselves in for a more bumpy ride in the foreseeable future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. 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 — with an emphasis on those originated between
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
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. 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 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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