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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
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller What do you know about your loan officer?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Digital Real Estate Data Means "OPEN HOUSE" 24/7
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. The Internet — and a new wave of technologically savvy Web-based real estate firms like RealtyTrac — is leveling the playing field for consumers, giving them access to vital information once controlled exclusively by real estate brokerages and a small circle of real estate professionals.
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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. Last year, you rarely saw the phrase “short sale” in the MLS property description. Today, approximately 10 percent of the listed properties are short sales. 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. Short sales occur when home prices fall and mortgage debt exceeds the value of the property.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Tips for Buying Short Sales from the Lender
With more and more sellers unloading their homes for less than what they owe on their mortgages, now is a good time for investors to start negotiating “short sales” with lenders . Real estate investors can find good deals as long as you are aware of the extra time and work required to make it happen. Next, when you talk with the lender's loss mitigator, you'll want Your chances of success with the seller's mortgage lender improve if your communication with them is organized and complete. Your first contact with the lender's “loss mitigation department”
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Tax Law Spurs More Short Sales, Expert Says
For real estate investors looking for pre-foreclosure bargains, a new federal law could unleash a torrent of short sales as struggling borrowers facing foreclosure unload their over-mortgaged homes to avoid huge tax bills on capital gains. HR 3648 , or the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, signed by President George W. Lucier , means more struggling borrowers will consider selling their homes to investors through short sales. Bush on Dec. 20, helps people whose homes are in foreclosure by canceling taxes on any mortgage debt that has been forgiven by their lender.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Crapshoot on the Courthouse Steps
for the nation’s ailing real estate market: public foreclosure sale Monday through Friday, a small group of people assemble around the steps of the Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif.,
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Crapshoot on the Courthouse Steps
for the nation’s ailing real estate market: public foreclosure sale Monday through Friday, a small group of people assemble around the steps of the Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif.,
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California Consumers Hit the Skids
for the second quarter of 2008, down from 66.3 state where home sales volume and home prices have been deflated while job layoffs continue to mount. This will strongly effect the state’s real estate sector, leaving a window of opportunity open for investors to come in and buy up local real estate at bargain prices compared to the overly inflated prices of the past few years. Posted 06-04-2008 3:00 PM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Analysts at the A. Gary Anderson
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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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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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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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