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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 . billion in subprime loans. 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. 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 much for that doggie in the window?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
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 loans as well, forcing homes valued at more than $750,000 into foreclosure. 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?
It is sobering to realize that weve just gotten through one wave (subprime) and are heading into several more waves of risky loans. 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. 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
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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March Mania and RealtyTrac's Sweet 16 Foreclosure List
Each spring brings the beginning of the real estate sales season and the end of college basketball, culminating with March Mania and the much awaited NCAA Sweet 16 playoff. For the best foreclosure opportunities during the subprime meltdown, join RealtyTrac for the most comprehensive foreclosure data nationwide. Don’t miss next weeks tip off, when RealtyTrac announces America’s “Elite Eight” — a fast This weekend, as the best college basketball players square off, RealtyTrac will tip off its Sweet 16 foreclosure list. EAST REGION SEMIFINAL The dollar goes a long
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
The Administration has encouraged six of the nation’s largest lenders — Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide Financial Corp., On the plus side, the Lifeline program is not being applied to only subprime adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs). Plus, the program is not available to borrowers who are within 30 days of the property’s foreclosure sale (in most states known as the Trustee’s Sale or Sheriff’s Sale and normally conducted on the local courthouse 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.
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 . billion in subprime loans. 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. 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 much for that doggie in the window?
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
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 loans as well, forcing homes valued at more than $750,000 into foreclosure. 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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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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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
It is sobering to realize that weve just gotten through one wave (subprime) and are heading into several more waves of risky loans. 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. 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
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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