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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
billion for the “deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutuals banking operations.” billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. lot of loan servicers, accountants and attorneys are going to be working nights and weekends to get the work done.” As an example, the surprise in the WAMU deal was not the high default rates for subprime or option ARMs, rather it was the huge losses associated with home equity lending. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
percent of all loans outstanding according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. The Hudson down payment numbers contrast strongly with national averages: The National Association of Realtors reports that in 2007 the typical first-time buyer put down just 2 percent, repeat buyers had 16 percent down payments and 25 percent of all purchasers bought with nothing down. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
Miller We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. Usually you would look at the fees and charges associated with the HOPE program and think, well, yuck. But for Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future?
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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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Screech from "Saved by the Bell" in Foreclosure
The Associated Press is reporting that actor Dustin Diamond from televisions "Saved by the Bell" is selling T-shirts to help bail his home out of foreclosure. "Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts – at $15 or $20 (autographed) each – to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee." This is different from your typical foreclosur e because it doesnt involve a lender foreclosing on a defaulted loan; it involves a landowner foreclosing on a land contract, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s median home price next year from a projected median price of $561,000 for 2006, down to a projected median of $550,000 in 2007 — a stark contrast to a year ago when most forecasters were
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. reported big losses from loan defaults due to sagging home prices and higher interest rates. And Doug Duncan, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, told Bloomberg News that more than 100 other lenders will go out of business this year. Panic is spreading in the U.S. 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
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- 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released,
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- 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. If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
Miller We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. Usually you would look at the fees and charges associated with the HOPE program and think, well, yuck. But for Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future?
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
billion for the “deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutuals banking operations.” billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. lot of loan servicers, accountants and attorneys are going to be working nights and weekends to get the work done.” As an example, the surprise in the WAMU deal was not the high default rates for subprime or option ARMs, rather it was the huge losses associated with home equity lending. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. 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
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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