10 Articles match "Associated","Sales","Standards"

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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  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 prices and growing defaults. 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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, if
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. Because when buyers look at recent home sales they do not distinguish between homes sold by owners and homes sold by investors, they merely look at sale prices. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median price of an existing home rose from $124,800 in 1998 to $201,100 as of January 2008. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  But opponents say the law is cutting down on the legitimate loans available to residents of the 10 zip codes and thereby will lower house values by reducing the number of potential buyers who can qualify for a loan, creating a glut of unsold inventory. The bill requires certain “high risk” mortgage applicants to receive credit counseling before taking out a home loan, and only applies to state-chartered loan originators, not federally chartered loan originators, according to the Chicago Association of Realtors. Also below is a heat map RealtyTrac created of the Chicago area based
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
  
  The Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 , part of the FHA reform bill, sets in place national standards for mortgage loan officers. The sale of residential mortgages allows local lenders to have fresh capital which can then be used to originate more loans. More investor activity holds down interest rates, and thats good for anyone who wants to finance or refinance a home.” Licensing Standards National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G. Miller     What do you know about your loan
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Stop Home Foreclosure
  
  Your lender may agree to accept the sale as total satisfaction of your mortgage obligation even if the proceeds of the sale are less than the amount that you actually owe. This is called a short sale. The "as is” appraised value and the sale price should be least 70 percent to 80 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the home. How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. Johnson    If you are currently in foreclosure, strongly consider selling your property as a backup plan.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  Usually you would look at the fees and charges associated with the HOPE program and think, well, yuck. In year two the percentage drops to 90 percent and if there’s a sale in year three the government gets 80 percent. If we tighten mortgage standards so that only those with great credit can buy homes we won’t have enough purchasers to clear the inventory of foreclosed properties now on-hand or to stabilize home prices.” Saccacio explains that “we have to enable purchasers Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller  
  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. In making the sales, the brokers allegedly misrepresented
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Clinton also wants the government to impose new disclosure requirements on mortgage brokers and curb their ability to dictate lending terms. “We need to act now with smart, practical solutions to strengthen our housing and mortgage markets,” Clinton told The Associated Press. “We Edwards also wants to ban certain fees, establish uniform broker licensing standards and start a national database for disciplinary infractions. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little 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. The estimates ranged from 25 to 40 percent 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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