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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Of all the mortgage ideas developed during the past few years, none tops the option ARM for sheer awfulness. According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months with results that will be devastating to borrowers, loan portfolios and local home values. How They Work Formally known as "payment
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Many homeowners who bought around the top of the market, back in 2004 through 2006, are now stuck with having purchased more home than they could afford. Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct a short sale, the foreclosing lender has to agree to it, essentially agreeing to accept less money than it is owed on the loan secured by the house. A short sale is not a vehicle normally seen during a seller’s Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
The city’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 197 households was more than five times the national average and tops among the nation’s 100 largest metros. And foreclosures are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the city’s economic woes, reports the Los Angeles Times , which cites the decline of the automotive industry as the primary culprit. But for at least five games, The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Tops PMI's Risk Index
Seven out of the 10 riskiest housing markets in the nation for home price deflation over the next two years are located in California, according to the Winter 2007 PMI U.S. Studying the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the nation, scores increased for 34 out of the nation’s top 50 over a year earlier, with an average score of 342. Of the top 50 metros, 19 face a more than 50 percent Market Risk Index just released by the PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. Based on a 1000 point scale, that score translates into a 34.2
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today. Total housing starts rose 9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 That's million units in February, higher than the 1.4 million units economists had predicted and the largest monthly increase since January 2006.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Appreciation Stays Sluggish
An index issued Thursday suggests the nation’s sputtering housing market is running low on the fuel it needs to accelerate — price appreciation. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s House Price Index for the fourth quarter of 2006 shows home prices were up 1.1 For the second consecutive quarter Michigan’s home price appreciation declined on a year-over-year basis, dropping 0.4 percent from the previous quarter and up 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005 — down from the 7.9
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Trickle Down Effecting High-Tech
The prolonged housing slump is having a measurable effect on the overall economy, and not just on home furnishings and housing supply chains (like Linens N’ Things, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection). Results of a survey conducted during the fourth quarter of 2007 by The NPD Group , a market research firm servicing the retail sector, revealed a direct correlation between areas hard hit by the housing crisis and a marked decrease in the sale of consumer electronics — like LCD televisions and notebook computers — and related products such as printer
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie: Q1 a Swift Kick in the Rear
ldquo;As the initial shock of home price declines dissipate and markets settle down from volatility of the last nine months, we’re seeing tremendous opportunity. As a result of the losses, Fannie is revising its forecast for home price declines from a 5 to 7 percent loss nationally for all of 2008, to a 7 to 9 percent loss for the year, with significant regional differences in the rate of home price declines. It may have been created and chartered by the federal government, but Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) is first and foremost a private company responsible to shareholders for running at a profit.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
homebuilders the risk of foreclosure through bankruptcy has sharply risen under the pressure of the grim housing market. Last year, the tumbling housing market claimed such large builders as Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based in Illinois. “We’re in the worst housing recession in modern history,” Antonio B. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years. Declines
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
The city’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 197 households was more than five times the national average and tops among the nation’s 100 largest metros. And foreclosures are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the city’s economic woes, reports the Los Angeles Times , which cites the decline of the automotive industry as the primary culprit. But for at least five games, The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
The state hit its peak towards the end of the year, taking the nation’s top spot for September, October and November. Only a slight uptick in job creation throughout California is expected, along with low housing affordability, a larger inventory of unsold houses, declining home prices, lower sales volume and less residential construction. 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. A dubious
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
Although he believes the $152 million economic stimulus package President Bush and Congress approved last month will help somewhat, Engle, a professor at New York University, is disappointed in the performance of the housing sector enough to blame it as the chief reason that a recession is likely. “What I’m hoping is that this sector of the economy doesn’t get legislated away. According to the Chapman Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment, while responses to the survey were negative when it came to the current and future economic conditions (to the lowest level seen since the survey
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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