9 Articles match "Foreclosures","Houses","Maine"

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• Will Main Street Sink Wall Street?
  
  The near-collapse of the two Bear Stearns hedge funds proves that the depth of America’s foreclosure fiasco is far from over. Fear and anxiety could trigger a massive sell-off, exposing other Wall Street financial institutions to the same excesses of America’s housing bubble on Main Street. Ironically, the rapid expansion of risky subprime lending has linked the fortunes of Wall Street to the fortunes of Main Street. Mounting mortgage defaults by American homeowners with shaky credit have claimed their first Wall Street casualty, as investment banking giant Bear Stearns shuffled the leadership of its asset-management division and lost billions in the risky hedge fund market last month.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Foreclosures and Hurricanes: A Nasty Combo
  
  The fallout that followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left many Gulf Coast residents homeless or facing foreclosure — or both. Temporary relief from the devastation was granted in the form of a foreclosure moratorium at the time. Given today’s economic climate, however, there exists a connection between foreclosures and hurricanes that poses a potentially even greater threat to the health and safety residents from Texas to Maine. The Institute of Business and Housing Safety is reporting that the increasing number of abandoned or vacant
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure activity on Main Street. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage Panic is spreading in the U.S. The mortgage industry plunged deeper into distress this month as two of the biggest subprime lenders — London’s HSBC Holdings and Irvine-based New Century Financial Corp. —
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Secrets of Pre-Foreclosure Investing
  
  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. All agree on one thing: The pre-foreclosure market is a highly specialized area of the foreclosure business that is not for amateurs. “Most Another claims that developing a series of “systems” in your business is the key to success. A third warns that accurate data and timely information
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Sensing an opportunity to win votes, the major presidential candidates have come out swinging; proposing a variety of prescriptions to ease the worsening housing slump.Both the White House and Democrat leaders in Congress agree that something must be done to stop the foreclosures. Yearning to retake the GOP-controlled White House next year, the Democrats are clamoring for the federal government to do something, anything, to contain the crisis.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
  
  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 and government bureaucrats all disagree on which mortgage company will be the next to trip and fall into bankruptcy. Skyrocketing foreclosure filings on subprime loans, those made to borrowers But they all agree on one thing — the mortgage meltdown is far from over. Meanwhile, nervous lenders have responded by tightening their lending standards, making
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
  
  quot;I think this time residential housing is in the 100-year flood, and I think it's going to take a long time to recover," said David Shulman, senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast , at the Zelman & Associates Housing Summit in Dallas on Sept. More from Shulman and several other leading economists in the October issue of the Foreclosure News Report , scheduled to be available in mid October.) 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
  
  Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.com , the nation’s largest source of foreclosure listings and data. “Wachovia 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 that would allow the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in special mortgages for those facing foreclosure. In effect, Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller     With assets of more than
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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