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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 . billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. What they show is that investors today, including Uncle Sam, should be able to value mortgage paper with some clarity.” The catch, said Saccacio, is that loan portfolios likely differ so much that generalizations may not work. “Every would-be buyer of mortgage-related securities will have to review portfolios with enormous care. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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- 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. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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From $2B Bailout to $4B Buyout at Countrywide
Just late last year Bank of America infused $2 billion into the coffers of Countrywide Financial to support the floundering lender’s attempt to survive the subprime mortgage mess — which reportedly almost forced the firm into filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this week. Now with Countrywide’s stock weak and its value depressed, it is being widely reported that Bank of America is paying $4 billion in stock to buy out the company — in which it already had a 16 percent stake in convertible preferred stock after the bailout. It didn’t take long from a historical perspective.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Still, this new loan may be a viable alternative to home buyers who may soon be finding themselves in trouble with the popular interest-only and option adjustable-rate mortgages -- especially if the Fed ups the interest rates more this year due to increased fears of inflation.stemming from higher energy costs and low unemployment. Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
So were lending institutions like Bank of America , which immediately lowered its prime rate. Lowering interest rates always has the potential of increasing inflation rather than controlling it, as we saw with home prices over the past six years. In a published report released Wednesday, RealtyTrac VP of Marketing Rick Sharga stated that the reduction of the federal funds rate may help moderate future foreclosure activity somewhat in two important ways: 1) some people who Television reporters — their crystal balls in tow — were talking about it like it was a done deal before it was even announced.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
Just a few short months ago President Bush stood in front of the press and swore that it was not the federal government’s job to bail out either lenders who made bad loans or speculative homebuyers who purchased more home than they could rightly afford utilizing the so-called “exotic” or “liar loans” popularized over the past few years. The Administration has encouraged six of the nation’s largest lenders — Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial Corp., Last week Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson threw out what the administration considers to be a life preserver to homeowners facing foreclosure.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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It Used to Be a Day Job
People feel sorry for the distressed homeowners who are losing their homes as their adjustable rate subprime mortgages reset to higher-than-affordable interest rates. The greatest fear seems to be that many of the more than 100,000 of these workers who are looking for work every day may end up homeless and thus become further open to ridicule for being illegal aliens at a time when illegal immigration is a hot campaign issue during a closely contested presidential race. The far-reaching implications of the nation’s foreclosure crisis continue to snowball a little more every day.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 . billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. What they show is that investors today, including Uncle Sam, should be able to value mortgage paper with some clarity.” The catch, said Saccacio, is that loan portfolios likely differ so much that generalizations may not work. “Every would-be buyer of mortgage-related securities will have to review portfolios with enormous care. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
million homes are likely to be in the "process of foreclosure" during the coming 12 to 18 months. 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 Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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