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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
You could look at the Merrill sale and say, Aha! In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . 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. At the same time, the Merrill discount may be too steep for owners without How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
Brady said the owners of high-end Hampton foreclosures tend to be “people who kept pulling money out of their houses for their business, using equity in their second homes to pay business debt, credit cards, buy cars, go on trips.” In January, properties entering some stage of foreclosure in Las Vegas outnumbered the sales of new and existing homes for the first time, according to a comparison of RealtyTrac foreclosure data and sales data. 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.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
For example you see Bank of America adopting a massive, systematic loan modification program. The estimates ranged from 25 to 40 percent from peak to trough, but all the economists thought prices could overshoot going down (as they did going up) and could be down as much as 55 percent in parts of Southern California.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures in Money's 'Best Places to Live'
Money magazine came out last week with another of its Top 10 lists; this one called "America’s Best Places to Live 2006 ." That’s more than all the for sale by owner, resale and new homes listed on RealtyTrac in Fort Collins The rest of Money’s Top 10 list includes: 2) Naperville, Ill.; And the winner is . . . Fort Collins, Colorado.
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. Even though prices are up, home sales volume is down dramatically -- just ask the National Association of Realtors -- homeowners are not refinancing anywhere near the levels seen even just a year ago, and the number of new homes under construction is declining as is building permits. 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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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. Lenders accepting this money now would have to modify each current mortgage to a fixed rate established by Uncle Sam as well as a renewed 30-year term. "Borrowers in this scenario would be required to share future appreciation 50/50 with
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
You could look at the Merrill sale and say, Aha! In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . 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. At the same time, the Merrill discount may be too steep for owners without How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
Brady said the owners of high-end Hampton foreclosures tend to be “people who kept pulling money out of their houses for their business, using equity in their second homes to pay business debt, credit cards, buy cars, go on trips.” In January, properties entering some stage of foreclosure in Las Vegas outnumbered the sales of new and existing homes for the first time, according to a comparison of RealtyTrac foreclosure data and sales data. 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.
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
For example you see Bank of America adopting a massive, systematic loan modification program. The estimates ranged from 25 to 40 percent from peak to trough, but all the economists thought prices could overshoot going down (as they did going up) and could be down as much as 55 percent in parts of Southern California.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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