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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
How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
You could look at the Merrill sale and say, Aha! One can see investors looking at delinquency and foreclosure rates, loan age and also geographic concentrations, down payment data, equity, income, credit ratings, sale terms and other factors. lot of loan servicers, accountants and attorneys are going to be working nights and weekends to get the work done.” As an example, the surprise in the WAMU deal was not the high default rates for subprime or option ARMs, rather it was the huge losses associated with home equity lending. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. Under enormous political pressure, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac allowed that they would agree on a "voluntary" basis to abide by SEC accounting standards. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller
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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 . Next, when you talk with the lender's loss mitigator, you'll want to find out three things: • Will the lender agree to a short sale; • What additional information they'll need to complete the process; • Request the “payoff quote schedule,” which is what the lender thinks they are owed. Real estate investors can find good deals as long as you are aware of the extra time and work required to make it happen.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Up 7 Percent in March
The March total — which includes default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report in January 2005 and resulted in a foreclosure rate of one foreclosure filing for every 775 U.S. California also documented the most foreclosure filings of any state, 31,434, and California cities accounted for six out of the top 10 metro foreclosure rates. With 149,150 foreclosure filings reported nationwide in March, U.S. foreclosure activity was up 7 percent from the previous month and 47 percent from a year ago,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
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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. She sent a link to a story from In Business Las Vegas , citing a pick up in homes sales in Las Vegas. 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 percent jump over the 1,478 homes sold in March.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Finding financing for the foreclosure deal... Unfortunately, many buyers don’t have $15,000 or more in their savings account. Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. is one of the most difficult aspects of purchasing
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. Under enormous political pressure, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac allowed that they would agree on a "voluntary" basis to abide by SEC accounting standards. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
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. As this story continues to unfold, real estate investors, homebuyers and industry professionals are some of the legitimate sources of salvation for homeowners who may now be facing not only higher mortgage payments, but the sale of their loan servicing contract to a totally different lender who acquires it in bankruptcy. The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally).
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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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. What ever happened to the savings account? Foreclosures are rising. Home prices are falling. What does all this mean? Here are some “megatrends” that may develop in the months ahead. For investors
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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