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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
One result is that the mortgage meltdown is described in global terms, as if all lenders offered toxic loans during the past few years and the entire financial community is universally in trouble. number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. Unlike virtually every other mortgage lender, Hudson doesn’t make option ARMs, doesn’t sell loans 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
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months with results that will be devastating to borrowers, loan portfolios and local home values. How They Work Formally known as "payment option adjustable rate mortgages," option
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Online Real Estate Auctions: 12 Tips for First-Time Bidders
Online auctions offer both novice and experienced real estate buyers a way to obtain under-valued propertie
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- Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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Online Real Estate Auctions: 12 Tips for First-Time Bidders
Online auctions offer both novice and experienced real estate buyers a way to obtain under-valued propertie
RealtyTrac Article Library
- Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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Statue Offers Homeowners a Prayer' of Hope
So far in 2008 nearly 240,000 households have been facing some stage of the foreclosure process on average every month. No matter why they are trying to sell, today’s declining market is bad enough that some homeowners are starting to look at alternative options for intervention, choosing not to wait for government entities that promise to offer up a ray of hope a day late and a dollar short. According to a recent poll , government intervention is not the kind many buyers are looking to these days. Even those homeowners who are not currently facing foreclosure may be at some point in time if they can’t sell their home.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
Reich, Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), offered an alternative foreclosure prevention plan to the one under consideration from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). million American families with 2/28 and 3/27 mortgages are scheduled to reset by the end of 2008), Reich relied on a number of sources to support his point, including foreclosure numbers from RealtyTrac. In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week, John M.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The 7 Lost Secrets of Foreclosure Investing
Rapid and sweeping changes in the real estate market are altering the way investors and agents buy and sell properties — especially foreclosures. Increasingly, real estate investors are relying on the Internet to locate, track and ultimately buy and sell real estate. But real estate investing, like sailing a ship in the open sea, is a science of proved principles and methods. Indeed, navigating the uncharted waters of the foreclosure process can be a perilous journey. Therefore, RealtyTrac has compiled The 7 Lost Secrets of Successful
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Robbins Pumps Up Investors at Annex Expo
At the Learning Annex Real Estate & Wealth Expo here at the World Congress Center the same line could have applied to Anthony Robbins. The popular motivational speaker and advisor to celebrities, athletes and politicians definitely pumped up the crowd of 5,000 current and wannabe real estate investors attending the show. Even though his message was generic in nature, what Robbins had to say is directly applicable ATLANTA, GA — “We just want to . . . (clap) . . . PUMP . . .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: the Coming California Crash?
California foreclosure investors now have an opportunity to tap the knowledge of a 25-year real estate investing veteran who correctly predicted the last two major swings in the California real estate market and is on the verge of correctly predicting another. “Bruce Bruce Norris was dead right” about home prices in California doubling in the early 2000s after hitting bottom in 1997, said Michael Carney, Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Carney went on to say that he thinks Norris’ latest prediction, made in early 2006, that foreclosures will soar and home prices will plummet in the next few years is also likely to be correct.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
CNNMoney reported last Tuesday that Fannie’s CEO Daniel Mudd is optimistic overall about the company’s future, but sees more challenges lying ahead for the rest of 2008 and possibly beyond. “As As a result of the losses, Fannie is revising its forecast for home price declines from a 5 to 7 percent loss nationally for all of 2008, to a 7 to 9 percent loss for the year, with significant regional differences in the rate of home price declines. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. In May 2008, there were 272 new listings, down 1.5 There were 134 sold listings in May 2008, down 15.52 Right now I am telling my buyers to come on over and pick out a home before everyone realizes the bargains and lines forms on offers forcing prices back up. With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
For real estate investors and home buyers, weakness in January construction means that builders will slash prices and offer incentives to motivate buyers into writing offers. Foreclosures surge upward The biggest news in residential real estate, however, seems to be foreclosures. The time has never been better for aspiring real estate investors, home buyers and real estate agents to successfully purchase foreclosure properties. Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Depending on whom you ask,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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