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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front in the mortgage responsibility debate. Interstate Commerce At first it may seem odd that mortgages are a federal matter since loans are secured by real estate and nothing is more local than dirt. But both real estate and mortgages have been considered within the stream of interstate commerce for decades. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage meltdown is the sense that folks who
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
big chunk of the real estate market will close down. This seems to make a lot of sense until you enter the real world. Such investors are essentially buyers of IOUs secured by real estate, IOUs which hopefully will yield a given level of interest and never require a foreclosure. In a typical case, local lenders originate mortgages New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller It’s fight time in New York.
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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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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 any of you have tried 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. 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 is, unfortunately, always associated with real estate investors working in the foreclosure arena). Their biggest concern: being hit by a hurricane. Between those
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Financing and Foreclosure Refinancing - RealtyTrac
Foreclosure Financing: How to Buy Foreclosure Real Estate Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. 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. More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! Finding financing for the foreclosure deal...
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True
Organized real estate was begging for it. And the fiasco in the subprime market is wreaking havoc and not making the situation any less stressful either. Bernanke is standing firm to his real world approach for interest rate adjustments. Wednesday Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Open Market Committee agreed unanimously to leave Wall Street was fantasizing about it. Industry analysts are still predicting that it’s going to happen, they just don’t know when.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Environment Not Ripe for Heavy Foreclosure Levels
Although global market inflationary forces like rising oil prices, a 5 percent decline in the value of the U.S. trade deficit may not be concerns for real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and real estate agents eager to get into the foreclosure business, theyre of major concern to the Federal Reserve, and putting big-time pressure on interest rates. The hikes we’re continuing to see in the Federal Funds Rate should be a point of focus Economics 201 – Inflation In announcing his findings on the condition of the nation’s economy Wednesday, Chapman University President James L.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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UCLA: Crash and Burn Unlikely for National Economy
The nation’s economy, driven mostly by the real estate sector, has been flying at Mach 1 in clear blue skies for a number of years. But in their Q3 2006 report , forecasters at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are calling for the Federal Reserve to reduce the Federal Funds Rate to 4.5 percent as unemployment rises over the next several quarters and inflation continues its flight pattern above the nation’s comfort level “as Now, however, some clouds are starting to appear on the horizon, and as air currents are changing, pilots are starting to throttle back and slow things down a bit, and distressed homeowners are belted into their seats as they find themselves in for a more bumpy ride in the foreseeable future.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . Housing starts are expected to remain
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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