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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
  
  High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer    Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. Jack McCabe, a real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach, Fla., But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind on their construction loans, mortgage payments, property taxes, auto loans and credit cards at an alarmingly fast pace, according to industry analysts, economists and real estate brokers .
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
  
  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. And as with many corporations in this country, the national economy is kicking Fannie around…fast and hard! One of the nation’s two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), Fannie reported a first quarter net loss of $2.2 billion — attributable at least in part to an increased number of foreclosures. Although
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. Skyrocketing foreclosure filings on subprime loans, those made to borrowers with poor credit, have caused huge losses for Wall Street hedge funds and other buyers of securities backed by those mortgages. Moreover, mortgage lenders have also begun raising Wall Street analysts, main street investors, corporate executives and government bureaucrats all disagree on which mortgage company will be the next to trip and fall into bankruptcy.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
  
  Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Well dont worry about a thing. Youve got a friend in the business. Miller    Step right up folks. You say monthly payments are unaffordable but you want to buy anyway.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future? Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• July Foreclosure Report
  
  Bank Repossessions (REOs) accounted for 28 percent of all activity during the month, while defaults accounted for 41 percent and auction notices accounted for 31 percent. That is in contrast to REOs accounting for just 16 percent of all activity in July 2007, while defaults in July 2007 were still at 41 percent and auction notices were at 43 percent. This shift in percentages shows that a higher proportion U.S. foreclosure activity in July increased 8 percent from the previous month and 55 percent from July 2007, according to the RealtyTrac Foreclosure Market Report released
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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