5 Articles match "Foreclosures","Sales","Washington Mutual"

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• And the Hits' Just Keep On Coming!
  
  Washington Mutual and Merrill Lynch. Now with the first week of October behind us, Citigroup, Washington Mutual (WaMu as it likes to be known) and Merrill Lynch announced their organizations would be taking major hits in the pocketbook for the third quarter of 2007. Ongoing weakness in the housing market, along with held-for-sale mortgages, net losses in the company’s trading securities portfolio and losses on investment grade mortgage-backed securities were cited as key contributors to the projected loss for the Countrywide. Citigroup.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
  
  Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures. But the topic of foreclosure recently became much more personal for one Long Beach, Calif ., Laura Richardson has lost, via foreclosure, the 1,600 square-foot, two-story Sacramento home with three bedrooms and 1.5 politician. Multiple media outlets are reporting that U.S. Rep.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
  
  Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. Even though prices are up, home sales volume is down dramatically -- just ask the National Association of Realtors -- homeowners are not refinancing anywhere near the levels seen even just a year ago, and the number of new homes under construction is declining as is building permits. Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
  
  Last week Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson threw out what the administration considers to be a life preserver to homeowners facing foreclosure. Called “Project Lifeline,” it has the backing of Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Faith Schwartz, Executive Director of the Hope Now Alliance, a foreclosure prevention coalition of the public and private sectors. Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo & Co. — Just a few short months ago President Bush stood in front of the press and swore that it was not the federal government’s job to bail out either lenders who made bad loans or speculative homebuyers who purchased more home than they could rightly afford utilizing the so-called “exotic” or “liar loans” popularized over the past few years.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
  
  You could look at the Merrill sale and say, Aha! billion for the “deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutuals banking operations.” Expected remaining losses: 19 percent ($30.706 billion) “The JPMorgan Chase valuations are must reading for any buyer of mortgage-backed securities,” says Jim Saccacio, Chairman and CEO at RealtyTrac.com, the countrys largest source of foreclosure listings and data. “What How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller    Long ago there was a song
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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