8 Articles match "America","Credit","Foreclosures"

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• Customers, Employees Credited for RealtyTrac's Deloitte Fast 50 Ranking
  
  Saccacio credited the company’s continued success to a loyal customer base of real estate investors, home buyers and real estate professionals who continue to see the value of the information and research tools RealtyTrac provides to successfully take advantage of foreclosure opportunities where they present themselves. Saccacio also thanked a hard working group of employees who are dedicated to servicing the needs of those customers to assure them of the most accurate and up-to-the-minute data possible, along with the most technologically advanced tools available to make researching
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month. billion line of credit. The near-collapse Two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested heavily in subprime mortgage securities racked up huge losses last month after they made bad bets on complex securities backed by risky mortgages. The meltdown of the two funds has sent tremors through financial markets, causing investors
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. 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
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
  
  In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . In other words, not all of WAMUs liabilities. “In conjunction with this acquisition,” said JPMorgan Chase, it would be “marking down the acquired loan portfolio by approximately $31 billion, which primarily represents our estimate of remaining credit losses related to the impaired loans.” In its investor presentation regarding the transaction, JPMorgan Chase divided the WAMU mortgage portfolio into four parts and detailed its expected losses: $50.3 How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
  
  So were lending institutions like Bank of America , which immediately lowered its prime rate. In a statement released Tuesday , the FOMC justified making the move (the first rate decrease in years after 17 consecutive upward rate “adjustments” under Alan Greenspan’s leadership, followed by more than a year of a wait and see stance with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at the helm). “Economic growth was moderate during the first half of the year, but the tightening of credit conditions has the potential to intensify the housing correction and to restrain economic growth more generally,” said
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Federal Lifeline DOA for Most People
  
  As Myers points out in her story, the new housing bill signed by President Bush earlier in the week will help a fraction of the families facing foreclosure. Personally, what irked me the most about the piece was a couple she interviewed who are facing foreclosure and are obviously expecting this bill to be a personal bailout by the federal government. They would not be the first people in America stuck in that situation. After listening to NBC Senior Correspondent Lisa Myers’ story on The Today Show last week, I am more convinced than ever that, as the old saying goes, people want their cake and to eat it too!
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  If a typical home has an average sale price of about $220,000 (many homes now facing foreclosure were financed several years ago with two loans, thus first loans are often significantly less than current market values), and if the average mortgage is $176,000 (80 percent of market values) then the total value of such mortgages would be $440 billion. If the refinancing program was limited to half of the homeowners who will probably lose their homes to foreclosure, Uncle Sam would need to provide loans worth $220 billion. "(Another) alternative idea works like this: Instead of replacing
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. "I More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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