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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Each month for the first five years of the loan the borrower can make one of four payment choices each month: Pay the loan on a 30-year self-amortizing basis just like a traditional mortgage. Taxes and insurance are extra Pay the loan on a 15-year self-amortizing basis. Rather than amortizing the loan -- reducing the debt with each payment -- option ARMs allow borrowers to make Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of a bad situation in another way: If it can get option ARMs refinanced it may be able to capture some of the “negative amortization”
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of a bad situation in another way: If it can get option ARMs refinanced it may be able to capture some of the “negative amortization”
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
The key factor of concern to real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and agents looking to get into the foreclosure business is interest rates. Esmael Adibi, executive director of the Anderson Center, the people who are going to be hurt the most by these adjustments, and those taking the greatest risk of going into foreclosure, are homeowners who purchased within the past couple of years, have insufficient equity built up, and financed their purchase with either a adjustable-rate or negatively amortizing mortgage, or some other form of creative financing. Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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ARM'd and Dangerous?
Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. In a worst-case scenario, this could have adevastating effect on the housing markets, driving down housing pricesand creating a "negative equity" spiral of sorts, and leading tothe kind of massive increases in foreclosures that some of the gloomand doom types have been predicting. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages — with an emphasis on those originated between
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Each month for the first five years of the loan the borrower can make one of four payment choices each month: Pay the loan on a 30-year self-amortizing basis just like a traditional mortgage. Taxes and insurance are extra Pay the loan on a 15-year self-amortizing basis. Rather than amortizing the loan -- reducing the debt with each payment -- option ARMs allow borrowers to make Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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