8 Articles match "Company","Houses","Washington"

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• And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
  
  Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch. For Countrywide , the second quarter of the year was a real let down with the company drawing from an $11.5 Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Countrywide. Citigroup.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
  
  Share values have dropped more 90 percent, investors have lost more than $100 billion, and both companies were rescued by the federal government earlier this month, placed in a government conservatorship run by the newly created Federal Housing Finance Agency. Second, some people think it would be a really good idea to dismember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "I say that we cant let them go fast enough," explains a commenter by the name of Wazzel who posted on the Washington Independent website. "Let Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
  
  The article claims that "real estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have substantial damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C." And there are some real horror stories described by agents cited in the article: ferret droppings along the baseboards, walls pocked with holes, appliances and light fixtures ripped out, a trail of motor oil dripped on all the carpets throughout a house. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more and more homeowners forced out of their homes by foreclosure are turning to vandalism to lash out in some tangible way in a situation where they feel powerless.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
  
  It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County Wednesday. Layoffs by large multinational companies are expected to continue over the next few years. One example — Rep. Steven C.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  Schumer (D-NY) chaired the Joint Economic Committee in Washington, DC, on the topic, "Sheltering Neighborhoods from the Subprime Foreclosure Storm." House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County (a region with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation) last August calling for the creation of partnerships between community organizations and state governments as a way to stop the bleeding from an overbearing volume of foreclosure activity. In April of 2007 national civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, the
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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 passed measures
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
  
  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. Still, on a yearly basis existing home sales were down almost 24 percent from February 2007, and the national median sales price for all housing types for the month was down 8.2 The company’s 20-city composite index also declined in January from 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
  
  Below are excerpts from an article he wrote about these alternatives. "One alternative is to simply offer low-interest loans to borrowers who currently have toxic mortgages. "Figures developed by Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, show that the likely cost of low interest loans would be roughly $220 billion — hardly cheap, but a lot less expensive than the $700 billion plan now being discussed in Washington. "Sharga's This will force bankers to work with trouble borrowers so they can get the other 90 cents from that dollar.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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