6 Articles match "Foreclose","Real Estate","Secondary Market"

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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  Meanwhile, nervous lenders have responded by tightening their lending standards, making it more difficult and expensive for real estate investors and homeowners to borrow money, according to new survey conducted by the Federal Reserve in July. Many mortgage companies raise cash to keep making new loans by re-selling mortgage debt on the secondary market. A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry. Wall Street analysts, main street investors, corporate executives
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Jackson Takes a Final Bow at HUD
  
  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. These “HUD homes,” like any homes that go back to a lender who forecloses, are a good potential pool of resources for investors and wannabe homebuyers looking to purchase bargain real estate. Posted 04-02-2008 9:00 AM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
  
  At the national level he believes real relief that will stabilize the nation’s housing sector and help it recover will come with the support of such programs as the FHA Secure program and the HOPE NOW alliance coalition, as well as hastening the modernization of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Bringing the lending limits of FHA originated loans to higher amounts — a measure enacted recently as part of the economic stimulus package passed by Congress and signed by President Bush — and allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase those loans and sell them on the secondary
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
  
  big chunk of the real estate market will close down. At the heart of the dispute is newly-enacted legislation which says lenders can’t foreclose subprime or high cost borrowers in the state unless a lengthy list of standards has first been met. This seems to make a lot of sense until you enter the real world. New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller     It’s fight time in New York.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front in the mortgage responsibility debate. Interstate Commerce At first it may seem odd that mortgages are a federal matter since loans are secured by real estate and nothing is more local than dirt. But both real estate and mortgages have been considered within the stream of interstate commerce for decades. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller    One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage meltdown is the sense that folks who
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality
  
  But the real story is different: Mandatory registration will potentially allow mortgage investors worldwide to rank loan officer performance — and to refuse deals from those with high levels of foreclosures and delinquencies. Seen another way, the new law makes mortgage lending more transparent, something which will reduce foreclosure rates, cut lender losses and make mortgages more enticing to investors worldwide. “Across the country we carefully license real estate brokers, lawyers and doctors,” says James J. National Registration For Loan Officers Becomes Reality By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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