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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. In making the sales, the brokers allegedly misrepresented
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
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 payments. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
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 mortgage lending more transparent, something which will reduce foreclosure rates, cut lender losses and make mortgages more enticing to investors worldwide. “Across the country we carefully license real estate brokers, lawyers and doctors,” says James J. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
Stop Foreclosures Click on a state below to get information on stopping foreclosures in your area: Search 1,683,603 U.S. foreclosure properties Click on a state!
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). based lender announced that it was the subject of a federal investigation into charges of accounting errors and stock trading, according to a Reuters report published Monday. More shakeout is likely yet to come from this story as subprime lenders fall into an abyss of their own making, The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Finding financing for the foreclosure deal... is one of the most difficult aspects of purchasing a distressed property. Find below-market priced properties For many
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Local Market Perspective: Las Vegas
The sales are 29.9 Properties owned by banks and other lenders are accounting for more than half of all the homes sold each month. The data is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and is subject to errors, omissions or revisions and is not warranted. Posted 05-15-2008 2:21 PM by ShariS Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments Shari Springer Springer Realty The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported May 6 that 1,794 single-family homes were sold in April, a 21.4
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure "Megatrends"
Sales are down. questioned Jack McCabe, a real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Searching for Stimulus II? The solution lies in the hands of real estate investors and homebuyers. What ever happened to the savings account? Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Stop Home Foreclosure
Your lender may agree to accept the sale as total satisfaction of your mortgage obligation even if the proceeds of the sale are less than the amount that you actually owe. This is called a short sale. The "as is” appraised value and the sale price should be least 70 percent to 80 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the home. How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. Johnson If you are currently in foreclosure, strongly consider selling your property as a backup plan.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
Using the proceeds of the new FHA loan for existing loan holders via a short sale or a partial payment to pay off the existing mortgage is likewise similar. The intent of their plan, the OTS says, is to “provide a negative equity position to the original loan holders in an amount equal to what they are giving up by taking the partial pay-off or short sale from the proceeds of the new FHA-guaranteed loan.” In essence, 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 Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. In making the sales, the brokers allegedly misrepresented
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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