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• Lenders help their customers curb foreclosures
  
  As borrowers falling behind on their mortgage payments increase in number, they are getting help form an unlikely source — the mortgage industry. Banks are increasingly testing new strategies to help curb mortgage delinquencies . headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio — is working with churches, social workers and the United Way to help troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure. To prevent potential problems, National City Corp. — Bank of America Corp.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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. Tauting the lower monthly payments the new product offers will appeal to first-time buyers, consumers in high-cost markets, real estate investors and buyers on a fixed income, the companys press release also warns that equity will build up more slowly as a result of the lower payments and a lot more total interest will be paid over the extra 10 years. 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
  
  percent in hopes of curtailing the housing crisis befalling this country, while still keeping a careful eye on inflationary concerns. In a simultaneous move Tuesday, the Fed’s Board of Governors also reduced its discount rate (the rate charged by banks to each other to borrow funds overnight) by 50 basis points to 5.25 The impact, and reaction, to the cut in the Fed’s short term rate that dictates the interest consumers pay on myriad Television reporters — their crystal balls in tow — were talking about it like it was a done deal before it was even announced. Analysts were
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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 quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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