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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure activity on Main Street. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. And Doug Duncan, chief economist of the Panic is spreading in the U.S. Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fannie Mae Toughens Foreclosure Guidelines
  
  With government officials at the local, state and federal levels clamoring to clamp down on the nation’s financial institutions and other loan originators, plus the recent bailout of Bear Stearns by the Federal Reserve after the Wall Street giant became so heavily invested in subprime backed mortgage securities, it was just a matter of time before the Federal National Mortgage Association (better known as Fannie Mae ) did something to tighten the reins as well. Well, this past Monday it finally did. As one of the two main Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) in this country — the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures. Yearning to retake the GOP-controlled White House next year, the Democrats are clamoring for the federal government to do something, anything, to contain the crisis.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  More significantly — and unlike Wachovia’s competitors — it’s making it easier for borrowers to dump option-ARMs by waiving the prepayment penalties routinely associated with such loans. “Effectively immediately,” says the company, “Wachovia is waiving all prepayment fees associated with its Pick-A-Pay mortgage to allow customers complete flexibility in their home financing decisions. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.com , the nation’s largest source of foreclosure listings and data. “Wachovia Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. 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 ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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