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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. 23, 2008.) Our Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, says “as our economy works through this difficult period, we will look for additional opportunities to try to avoid preventable foreclosures. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
But the real story with foreclosures is different: The fact that a loan is delinquent does not mean foreclosure is sure to follow. Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. Volatile real estate markets such as today support such prudence.” Even with such caution, Higgins says “still we aren’t protected in every instance where values can drop even more substantially.” As part of its share-the-risk No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
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.... See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Digital Real Estate Data Means "OPEN HOUSE" 24/7
The Internet is rapidly and radically transforming the way people buy and sell homes. An avalanche of information now available on the World Wide Web is shifting the balance of power in the real estate industry and giving homebuyers and sellers more control over the deal than ever before — and changing the nature of real estate forever. Today, in the new digital democracy, more than 80 percent of house-hunters use the Internet to help them find a home, according to the National Ten years ago, only a fraction of homebuyers and sellers used the Internet. Sellers,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home values will combine to hold back the nation’s economic activity. Conference of Mayors .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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No Place Like Home
Two natural disasters that severely impacted Kansas homes this year have brought the issue to the forefront. Edmiston attributed the rising foreclosures to three factors: a greater share of nonprime mortgages, which inherently come with higher default rates; payment shock that comes when non-traditional mortgage products reset to higher monthly payments; and the low amount of equity in many homes. But, he added, that could change depending on “what happens to home prices.” As state Rep. Tom Borroughs noted this week at a housing conference here, Kansas is not on the cutting edge
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures and Home Price Appreciation
While some may disagree whether foreclosures beget slowing home price appreciation or vice versa (its probably both), theres no doubt that the two are closely related. Take a look at this chart based on RealtyTracs foreclosure statistics and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversights House Price Index . Posted 01-10-2008 7:59 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 housing prices
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 percent In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Distressed Homeowners: Rules of Engagement
As foreclosures proliferate and home prices stagnate in many real estate markets across the country, more investors and buyers are considering foreclosures as an opportunity to find bargain
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- Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Distressed Homeowners: Rules of Engagement
As foreclosures proliferate and home prices stagnate in many real estate markets across the country, more investors and buyers are considering foreclosures as an opportunity to find bargain
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- Thursday, February 21, 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. The home had been fraudulently purchased by Jamie Edelkind who was sentenced for 5 years in jail. Kennedys grandfather sold for a bargain price at a Feb. Kennedy’s grandfather sold at auction at a steep discount Tuesday for the price of $950,000.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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