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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing payments. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.com , the nation’s largest source of foreclosure listings and data. “Wachovia Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation’s fourth-largest banking institution
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007. The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal percent in 2005. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short term by infusing the economy with cash, it could also be draining the rainy day
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
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- Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
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- Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the local economy has been steadily losing jobs in the automotive sector, Detroit reported the highest foreclosure rate of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the country for the third quarter of 2006 as well. After two straight quarters when Indianapolis, Atlanta and Dallas led the nation in foreclosure rate, Detroit took over the top spot on the RealtyTrac Q3 2006 U.S. Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report — followed by Ft. Lauderdale and Denver .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? I think there were troubles to start with; that’s what caused the defaults and foreclosures,” said Dr. Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions. The increased presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a 2 percent increase in foreclosure activity from the previous month. (See The results of their latest analysis , released Wednesday, indicate that a number of factors are at work supporting the notion of a continued increase in the number of properties entering the foreclosure pipeline, although not skyrocketing to levels seen back in the early 1990s. The key factor of concern to real estate investors, Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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