9 Articles match "Equity","September"

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• Five More U.S. Banks Are Seized, Pushing Total for Year to 89
  
  Banks Are Seized, Pushing Total for Year to 89 Bloomberg News, September 5, 2009 Lenders in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Arizona collapsed, pushing the number of bank failures to 89 this year amid continuing fallout from the worst economic...( Tags: Foreclosure Trends foreclosures negative equit Five More U.S. read more ) ...Tags:
  Foreclosure Pulse - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  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 — with an emphasis on those originated between 2004 and 2005 — Cagan said, “We have to figure out who has equity and who doesn’t. All those who bought or refinanced in
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
  
  In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . Thats a 70 percent premium over the stocks pre-acquisition value — but far from the one-year high of $77.89. The WAMU Deal In September, JP Morgan Chase paid $1.9 billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller    Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie in the window?
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  Also below is a heat map RealtyTrac created of the Chicago area based on the number of total foreclosure filings (defaults, sales and REOs) in September. That will leave defaulted homeowners with fewer options to avoid foreclosure, let alone recoup any equity they might have in their home. Chicago Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- Sept 2006 Posted 11-13-2006 2:08 PM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend An Illinois law intended to help reduce foreclosures is drawing cries of discrimination from some of the people it is trying to protect, according to the Chicago Defender newspaper. “Nearly 60 days after Illinois House Bill 4050 went into effect to supposedly protect consumers from predatory lenders, a coalition of Black and Latino city residents say the new law is actually destroying property values in select minority communities.” The law is a pilot program that is being applied in 10 Chicago zip codes chosen for their high foreclosure rates, among other factors.
  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. At the end of the day, it appears as if expectations that home prices will continue to go upward and build up more equity in 2007 is a gamble that is going to backfire on many of these short-term homeowners, resulting in opportunities for investors, real estate professionals and home buyers to purchase California homes at bargain prices. Posted 01-15-2007 8:00 AM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
  
  not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. Speaking at the start of September, Hermance said his bank had some 80,000 mortgages outstanding. percent loan-to-value ratio meaning that the borrower No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• OTS Director Offers Alternative Plan to Congress
  
  Reich pointed to the FHASecure program as an example, where 116,000 loans have closed since the program was launched in September 2007, but only 1,500 of them were made to refinance delinquent conventional loans. The intent of their plan, the OTS says, is to “provide a negative equity position to the original loan holders in an amount equal to what they are giving up by taking the partial pay-off or short sale from the proceeds of the new FHA-guaranteed loan.” In a statement delivered before the Committee on Financial Services of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
  
  See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) The Federal Reserve could have eliminated option ARM financing by simply declaring that such loans were "unfair" under section 129(1) of the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act, legislation which has been in place since 1994. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller    Step right up folks.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  We sold a condo and bought a single-family home.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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