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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most 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
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
and -29.3%, respectively, and all 20 cities are still in negative territory on a year-over-year basis." Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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California Consumers Hit the Skids
The Center’s California Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment stood at 57.6 The report cites concerns about the housing market, gasoline prices, the job market and the volatility of the stock market as key to the negativity among consumers about present and future economic conditions. These concerns are genuinely justified in California, the state which has led the nation in total properties with foreclosure filings for 19 out of the last 20 months, according to RealtyTrac . Analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period. seem to indicate that California is economically sound and stable. Still, enough of the prime indicators are projected to turn and remain A dubious honor at best, the Golden State maintained a level of foreclosure activity during the past year that kept it in the nation’s upper echelon in terms of state foreclosure totals. The state hit its peak towards the end
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . Carney pinpointed the root cause of Southern It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? I think there were troubles to start with; that’s what caused the defaults and foreclosures,” said Dr.
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. Delivering the results of his research as part of an economists’ panel on the last day of California Realtor Expo 2006 in Long Beach last week, Christopher Cagan, Ph.D., Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset The severity of that impact, however, is open to discussion — depending, of course, on how you choose to massage the data to prove your point.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
The way things are going nowadays you too have about as much a chance of correctly predicting whether the nation and the state of California are either headed towards, or are already in, a recession as any of the professionals who do it for a living. He may be correct — at least as to California — based on the latest California Consumer Confidence survey conducted by economists at the A. Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves. It’s a 50-50 crapshoot no matter which way you lean on the issue.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that five California brokers sold “unsuitable” securities to customers, primarily variable universal life policies (VUL). “Most 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
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. Stay tuned to ForeclosurePulse and RealtyTrac as this story continues
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
and -29.3%, respectively, and all 20 cities are still in negative territory on a year-over-year basis." Does this make it a good time to buy real estate? have access to credit have fat cash reserves aren't already over-exposed in real estate have a secure job or income stream expect to hold the property for at least two years" But be forewarned, prices are expected to fall further, and will take awhile to rebound, according to many economists. Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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