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• Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
  
  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 2004 and 2005 — Cagan said, “We have to figure out who has equity and who doesn’t. Still, the bottom line is no matter how
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Will Main Street Sink Wall 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. Two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested heavily in subprime mortgage securities racked up huge losses last month after they made bad bets on complex securities backed by risky mortgages. The meltdown of the two funds has sent tremors through financial markets, causing investors to reassess their appetite for this type of risk.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• The $3 Billion Foreclosure Payday
  
  That puts the Wall Street hedge-fund manager among the top 150 richest Americans. By 1994, he started his own hedge fund with $2 million and built it into a $500 million nest egg by 2002. Paulson believed that investors were underestimating the risk of the mortgage market, betting that the CDO market would crash. You may not know who John Paulson is, but you soon will. Last year, Paulson made $3 billion betting on foreclosures .
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• How to finance your foreclosure purchase? How about your IRA?
  
  Titled " Buying Investment Property Through Your IRA ," the article offers a wealth of information on how to use funds already in your IRA to invest in different types of properties. k) during the 2000 dot-bomb induced stock market implosion, the notion of investing retirement funds in real estate assets is something Im very interested in exploring. If youre looking for creative ways to finance an investment in a foreclosure property, you may not need to look much further than your retirement account. A good article ran today in Lew Sichelmans Realty Q & A column in MarketWatch.
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• Florida Homeowners Overconfident Despite Foreclosures?
  
  Results of a new study released last week by Attorneys Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) suggests that Florida homeowners are feeling pretty good nowadays about the value of their homes and the potential for those values to rise further in the future. It seems to fly in the face of recent market activity statewide reported by the Florida Association of Realtors . Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Their least concern: falling victim to mortgage fraud -- even though the survey says that Florida is the top state in the nation for such fraud (something that
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• Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
  
  The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. With the housing market languishing on the downslide, Doti expects export sales — which are forecasted to increase by almost $100 billion in both 2007 and 2008 — to replace real estate as the major driver of economic growth in this country. With the slowdown in Real GDP, the Chapman forecast calls for the Federal Reserve to respond by lowering the federal funds rate (a short-term interest rate) by a quarter point early in 2008. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
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• Fed Gives in to Peer Pressure
  
  The Federal Open Market Committee did finally cave in to pressure from peers, industry analysts, and even the public at large and slashed the federal funds rate 50 basis points Tuesday to 4.75 In a simultaneous move Tuesday, the Fed’s Board of Governors also reduced its discount rate (the rate charged by banks to each other to borrow funds overnight) by 50 basis points to 5.25 Television reporters — their crystal balls in tow — were talking about it like it was a done deal before it was even announced. Analysts were beyond whether it was going to happen.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Fed's Cautionary Stance Predictable
  
  Did anyone really expect anything else out of Ben Bernanke and the other 10 members of the Federal Open Market Committee this time around? As predicted by everyone from Wall Street analysts and TV commentators, to probably the corner grocery store clerk down the street, the Federal Reserve held steadfast at their meeting Tuesday and kept its short term federal funds rate at 2 percent. The official statement released by the Committee Tuesday had a cautionary tone, noting that inflation remains a key concern as labor markets continue to soften and the housing market “contraction”
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• Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
  
  Find below-market priced properties For many homebuyers and investors seeking to purchase a pre-foreclosure or a bank-owned foreclosure property, one of the most difficult aspects of purchasing a distressed property is finding financing for the foreclosure deal. Depending on the price range of the foreclosure properties an investor plans to buy, he or she will need startup capital to pay the loan reinstatement costs, rehab costs, closing costs, carrying costs, sales marketing costs and other expenses associated with buying and carrying foreclosure real estate. Foreclosure Lenders
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Fed Leaps Into the Fray...Finally
  
  Over the past few months the Fed started to fight back, taking a few jabs here and there without much oomph to them — lowering the federal funds rate, but without a real noticeable positive impact. It may not be the knockout punch the American public is looking for, but it sure had a tremendous impact on the financial markets this week and goes a long way towards restoring confidence in the Fed’s ability to control fiscal policy. For the longest time now Ben and his band of governors were mostly on defense. At first they weren’t fighting back at all, preferring to stay on the
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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