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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
For example, the SEC could limit its investigation to mortgages that were foreclosed within the first 12 to 18 months after origination. The one public example of such an audit that we know of revealed stunning results. Stated income loans hurt everyone, the home buyer, the institution who buys the loan on the secondary market, and even the home shopper who does not inflate their income to purchase a home. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
Most people in foreclosure today have zero equity in their homes,” said Thomas J. 20 and will provide a temporary, three-year change to the tax code to eliminate any taxes homeowners might face when banks renegotiate the terms of a home loan and forgive a portion of the outstanding mortgage debt. I had to break the bad news to the husband when he got home from work. Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer One pre-foreclosure expert says a new federal law will change everything, and short sales and short payoff sales will become the new trend in the marketplace.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Priced to Foreclose
A new report shows a strong correlation between slow home priceappreciation and high foreclosure rates, although its clear thecorrelation does not involve a direct cause-and-effect relationship. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (thank goodness for acronyms) on Thursday released home price appreciation statistics for the first quarter of 2006, which show that U.S. homes are appreciating at the slowest quarterly rate since the firstquarter of 2004. The OFHEO report ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia basedon year-over-year home price appreciation.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes By Octavio Nuiry, RealtyTrac Staff Writer Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited briefly from favorable financing. This is just the tip of the iceberg.” McCabe believes that delinquencies and defaults will rise not only among subprime borrowers, but among prime mortgages, Alt-A loans, teaser rate loans and low money-down
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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All Aboard, Take a Ride on the Foreclosure Bus Tour
Just take a ride on the repo home tour. Every Saturday, Dias packs in homebuyers into a bus tour of foreclosed homes in Stockton. In September, for example, Stockton had 2,422 foreclosure filings, compared to 330 foreclosure filings in September of 2006, according to RealtyTrac . How do buyers find foreclosures in a downward real estate cycle? That’s easy.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Finding financing for the foreclosure deal... While homebuyers are very happy to see home prices dropping, the credit crunch has put a clamp on foreclosure financing and many foreclosure lenders are scrutinizing each deal. Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Jackson Takes a Final Bow at HUD
One of the biggest projects Jackson was working on with HUD was the modernization of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), an agency that insures home loans for approved lenders against borrower default. This project allows for a greater number of mortgages at higher loan limits to be sold on the secondary market, providing FHA insured loans to potential home buyers in more costly areas of the country. He gave himself a couple of weeks to clean out his desk, clear out of his office and say his final goodbyes to his staff. After that, Alphonso Jackson will probably be looking
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective, Seattle, Wash.
For example, a potential buyer should consider paying for a “Sewer Scope,” which costs about $250.00. Moreover, hire a contractor and get a written estimate to repair the foreclosed home. Here are some things to keep in mind when considering a distressed property purchase: Foreclosures are the most problem prone and strenuous type for real estate purchase. You never get a perfect house.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Legend of Foreclosure Vandalism Grows
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. 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." Las Vegas is used as a backdrop for the story, not surprising given that the foreclosure rate in Las Vegas consistently ranks among the top 10 metro foreclosure rates, according to RealtyTrac.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Glossary of Foreclosure and Real Estate Terminology - Realtytrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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