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Don't Dump Investors
Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity. After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. The investor double-standard is hardly hidden.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages. number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. Saccacio, chief executive officer at the country’s largest provider of foreclosure data and listings, RealtyTrac.com . “Instead, No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Famous lenders with once-fabulous finances are turning up in the headlines among the broke and busted.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... Of all the mortgage ideas developed during the past few years, none tops the option ARM for sheer awfulness. Miller Step right up folks. You say monthly payments are unaffordable but you want to buy anyway.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Million Dollar Homes in Foreclosure
Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not just run-down homes in poor neighborhoods that are vulnerable to foreclosure. RealtyTrac’s national foreclosure database featured a number of million-dollar homes in some stage of foreclosure last month, including the homes pictured below. For home buyers at the more expensive end of the real estate market, these types of properties can represent good investment opportunities. (Note: U.S. foreclosures are up from last year as higher interest rates force more homeowners into default and softening
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure bargain for summer home of JFK's grandfather
A post last week on The Real Estate Bloggers recounted how the former summer home of President John F. 28 foreclosure auction . The Hull, Massachusetts home of John F. Kennedy’s grandfather sold at auction at a steep discount Tuesday for the price of $950,000. Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. The home had been fraudulently purchased by Jamie Edelkind who was sentenced for 5 years in jail.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, home price appreciation on the national level has been virtually unstoppable since 1980. Reaching a double-digit peak above 14 percent before dropping back to 9 percent over the past six months, the rate Relying on their economic model, forecasters at Chapman are calling a further retreat in the national rate, however, back to a 5.5 percent rate of appreciation by
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess?
We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S
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- Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess?
We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes. Foreclosure filings jumped 42 percent nationwide in 2006, accelerating a trend that began in 2005 as home sales started to cool. Last year, 1,259,118 U.S. properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2 billion — attributable at least in part to an increased number of foreclosures. It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit. Although an improvement over
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Latest Census Data Suggest More Foreclosures Coming
Will the thinly stretched finances of U.S. homeowners lead to a sharp rise in foreclosures and a collapse of the so-called housing bubble? Census Bureau , based on 2005 data, suggests that the American public is spending more of their disposable income on necessities — especially owner occupied and rental housing. Take San Diego, for example, where the median price of a home A new report just released by the U.S. Depending on the city, if those costs increase any more than they already have, the end result could very well be seen on the RealtyTrac website.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Data Suggests Decline in California Foreclosures
California’s latest economic numbers reported by forecasters at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University suggest that the number of foreclosures for the state will continue to dwindle for the foreseeable future. This sheds light on some of the most recent foreclosure statistics published by RealtyTrac (see our latest report) , which show decreasing numbers of new filings in March and April, and May numbers up only slightly. None of the factors that contributed to the last great rush in the state’s foreclosure pipeline back in the early 1990s is present this time around.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Short sales rising
Scanning the Southern California Multiple Listing Service (MLS) last week, the one thing that stands out is the growing number of short sales. Today, approximately 10 percent of the listed properties are short sales. Short sales occur when home prices fall and mortgage debt exceeds the value of the property. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. That indicates lenders are getting more eager to unload properties in foreclosure, even if it means selling them for less than is owed on the mortgage.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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