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• New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
  
  New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller     It’s fight time in New York. On one side is newly-passed state legislation which sets tough standards for subprime and “high cost” loans and on the other is Freddie Mac, which says it won’t buy such loans in the state after September 1st, the day the new law goes into effect. This is a big deal because if New York lenders can’t sell mortgages to buyers such as Freddie Mac, they simply won’t make such loans. You can guess what happens next:
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
  
  Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. Several of the states with the 10 lowest appreciation rates also posted foreclosure rates among the nation’s 10 highest in the third quarter, according to the RealtyTrac U.S. The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
  
  RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S. foreclosures increasing for the third month in a row. We show 117,259 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in February, a 13 percent increase from the previous month and a 68 percent increase from February 2005. Thats a foreclosure rate households. Heres what our CEO, James J.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. But increasingly there are signs that the foreclosure problem is spilling over into wealthier areas, where prime borrowers — and even high-end real estate developers — are rapidly falling behind
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
  
  foreclosure activity registered at more than 50 percent above the level it was at a year ago, according to the March RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report . And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in For the third month in a row U.S. In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing lender.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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• Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
  
  One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies. In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25 percent the Fed started with when it cut the first 50 basis points off in Sept.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
  
  Although he believes the $152 million economic stimulus package President Bush and Congress approved last month will help somewhat, Engle, a professor at New York University, is disappointed in the performance of the housing sector enough to blame it as the chief reason that a recession is likely. “What I’m hoping is that this sector of the economy doesn’t get legislated away. According to the Chapman Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment, while responses to the survey were negative when it came to the current and future economic conditions (to the lowest level seen since the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
  
  Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 At the same time the FOMC decided to take the opportunity to move its discount rate down 50 basis points as well to 1.75 rdquo; The New York Times reported Wednesday that in a speech delivered the day before to members of the National Association for Business Economics, Bernanke In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Thursday, December 18, 2008
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• No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
  
  Saccacio, chief executive officer at the country’s largest provider of foreclosure data and listings, RealtyTrac.com . “Instead, Hudson has deposits of $49 billion, a network of 125 branches in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and just 1,350 employees — a fraction of the workforce one would find with banks of similar size. But the real story with foreclosures is different: The fact that a loan is delinquent does not mean foreclosure No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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