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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Hudson has deposits of $49 billion, a network of 125 branches in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and just 1,350 employees — a fraction of the workforce one would find with banks of similar size. As one example, Hermance says that of 50,000 New Jersey mortgages his bank bought back just two properties during a recent 12-month period. The Hudson No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
The huge problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were supposed to be resolved with new management and revamped accounting, but no resolution could revolve a basic issue: Private mortgage buyers are always at a disadvantage when competing against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If the two GSEs are further harmed, the banking system itself will face additional financial threats. "The potential effects of a rescue become more complex for the holders of Fannies and Freddies $19 billion in subordinated debt, so-called because it ranks below other bonds in the companies capital structures," says
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
rdquo; The New York Times reported Wednesday that in a speech delivered the day before to members of the National Association for Business Economics, Bernanke said the economic turmoil has caused the Fed to downgrade its “already-gloomy economic outlook.” rdquo; Until stock indexes around the world tumbled in recent days, many of the central banks thought this to be just an American problem with only secondary ripple effects in Europe, the Times reported. 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Freddie and Fannie Spurn New York Subprime Loans
Battle lines are being drawn in New York’s real estate market, pitting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae against subprime lenders in New York. Last week, New York Governor David A. Under the new law, investors, including loan buyers like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are held liable for mortgage fraud. Patterson signed into law a subprime lending reform bill (S.8143-A/A.10817-A), creating stringent lending guidelines for subprime lenders. It also lays out requirements for brokers to act in borrowers’ best interests, and mandates all local mortgage
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- 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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RealtyTrac VP Speaking at USFN Seminar
If you’re attending the annual 2008 USFN National Default Servicing Seminar in Texas this week, you can catch RealtyTrac Vice President of Marketing Rick Sharga speaking on the latest foreclosure legislation at a 9 a.m. rdquo; Foreclosure activity increased 112 percent in the first quarter of 2008, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure panel discussion titled “In the News: Current Issues Affecting the Default Servicing Industry.” rdquo; “The housing slump — accompanied by a surge in foreclosures — in the midst of a presidential election
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of 2005, making Michigan the first state to report a year-over-year decline in more than six years. Foreclosure Market Report . Massachusetts and Rhode Island both saw quarterly declines in home prices and also reported the two biggest Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
Foreclosure Market Report . The year-over-year increase in bank repossessions was even more dramatic in some states: 619 percent in Arizona; 597 percent in New York; 557 percent in California; and 464 percent in Florida. View full March report. Posted 04-15-2008 2:00 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Auctions , Bank-Owned/REOs , Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends For the third month in a row U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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FBI: Mortgage Fraud Begets Foreclosure
The FBI recently came out with its 2006 Mortgage Fraud Report , which somewhat anticlimactically concludes that there is “a strong correlation between mortgage fraud and loans which result in default or foreclosure.” The correlation is apparent in the report’s list of the top states for mortgage fraud: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Six of those states also appeared in RealtyTrac’s list of states with the highest foreclosure rates in 2006. The FBI also lists Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
percent during the first quarter of 2008, the same rate of increase as tracked for the fourth quarter 2007. economy — no matter how slight it is — the New York Times is reporting that the current situation does not fit into the classic definition of a recession, which is a "significant decline in economic activity spread acorss the economy, lasting more than a few months." However, both reports also reveal the devastating impact One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. All five of the states with foreclosure markets most favorable to buyers and investors reported annual foreclosure rates of more than 1 percent of total households along with increasing foreclosures in 2005. It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
Thats a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure for every 986 U.S. foreclosure rate has moved higher, and it’s the second straight month new foreclosures have topped 100,000. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling or refinancing during pre-foreclosure." Georgia reported the nations highest foreclosure rate for the second RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
But I don’t think it’s going to be a really serious recession,” he said, according to published reports in The Business Review (Albany). This week, by contrast, the San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that prognosticators working at +News+>+Business+--+Experts+forecast+sees+no+recession&expire=&urlID=27087637&fb=Y&url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080311-9999-1n11econ.html&partnerID=621">UCLA’s Anderson Forecast don’t see the nation — or the state — falling into a recession. “Don’t Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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