9 Articles match "California","Origination"

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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  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 to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Short Sales for Real Estate Agents - RealtyTrac
  
  The homeowner agrees to list the property for sale, and the lender agrees to pay off the mortgage for a mutually agreed upon selling price — even if it is for less than the original amount owed on the loan. ldquo;Business is already there for Realtors working short sales and properties that are already in foreclosure,” said California realtor Larry Blachman, a 30-year real estate veteran who has been training real estate professionals on how to buy, list and sell foreclosure property for more than 20 years. “Those Short Sales for Real Estate Agents Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Every time the real estate cycle takes a dive two types of real estate agents seem to emerge: the traditionalist who is satisfied working the business the way it’s always been done; and the progressive who believes that being creative and accepting change is an important factor for remaining in the home buying game. Don’t Sell Yourself Short Which
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Avoiding, Stopping Foreclosures Information, Helpful Resources, Stop Home Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosure Thriller — Pay Up or Beat It
  
  The sprawling Jackson estate — located at 5225 Figueroa Mountain Road — sits on 2,800 acres of rolling hills in California’s wine county north of Santa Barbara. acres of beachfront property, the 32,000 square foot trophy mansion — complete with 9-bedrooms and 12 full bathrooms — was originally built in 1929 for the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Posted 03-07-2008 4:36 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Auctions , Foreclosure Trends
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
  
  A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. It warns cities in California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, as well as the greater Washington, D.C. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely ties those rates to house price appreciation.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Cagan: Big Scary Numbers, Little Impact
  
  Despite so many zeroes and commas in his numbers, however, Cagan assured industry professionals attending a recent meeting of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California that those very long numbers will have little impact on the national economy, although they will pack quite a punch for the people most immediately affected by them – lenders, borrowers and investors. “This million adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) originated between 2004 and 2006 (valued at approximately $2.2 At first glance, the numbers that Dr. Christopher Cagan works with on a daily basis look scary
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The Fed Rate Decision is Ongoing'
  
  When I was in business school at the University of Southern California we spoke of an “ongoing concern” meaning a business enterprise of supposedly infinite duration. Even the National Association of Realtors, which originally thought the nation’s housing market would turn around significantly by year-end 2007, is pulling back a bit on its forecast , now calling for home sales to stabilize where they are this year, with noticeable improvement in sales activity by mid-2008. The Federal Reserve is starting to sound like a broken record. Oops!
  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 For the first time loan officers are facing criminal charges because of allegations regarding mortgage originations. The SEC complaint reflects the McLean decision because it argues that mortgages are routinely bought from The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller    One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage meltdown is the sense that
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  And homeowners from California to Maine were left wishing they had a way to close the floodgates, stopping foreclosure of their homes immediately. Its suggestions: increase federal support for local foreclosure prevention programs; strengthen and reform the FHA; strengthen regulation of mortgage origination at the federal level; create a federal anti-predatory lending law that bans unfair and deceptive practices; establish borrowers ability to pay standards; and disclosure relating to alternative mortgage products must be enhanced. Denvers Foreclosure Task Force recently issued
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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