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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
The term “spread lender” means that Hudson makes its money on the difference between the interest income it earns from loans and the costs it pays out to operate its business. While other lenders derive a large part of their income from penalties and fees, Hudson stays away from such extractions and instead tries to reduce operating expenses. Hudson also had a net income of $110.7 No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... Almost anyone can qualify to buy a home owned by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (a HUD home) so long as they
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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No Place Like Home
Two natural disasters that severely impacted Kansas homes this year have brought the issue to the forefront. Edmiston attributed the rising foreclosures to three factors: a greater share of nonprime mortgages, which inherently come with higher default rates; payment shock that comes when non-traditional mortgage products reset to higher monthly payments; and the low amount of equity in many homes. He noted that the foreclosure hot spots tended to appear in low-income neighborhoods. As state Rep. Tom Borroughs noted this week at a housing conference here, Kansas is not on the cutting
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. quot; Las Vegas and Phoenix posted the two biggest annual declines in home prices of the 20 metro areas tracked in the report, followed by Miami with a 28.2 Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Tax Law Spurs More Short Sales, Expert Says
For real estate investors looking for pre-foreclosure bargains, a new federal law could unleash a torrent of short sales as struggling borrowers facing foreclosure unload their over-mortgaged homes to avoid huge tax bills on capital gains. HR 3648 , or the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, signed by President George W. 20, helps people whose homes are in foreclosure by canceling taxes on any mortgage debt that has been forgiven by their lender. Bush on Dec. The government previously viewed the difference between the debt and the value of the home as taxable
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Free foreclosure help and avoiding foreclosure information - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Tauting the lower monthly payments the new product offers will appeal to first-time buyers, consumers in high-cost markets, real estate investors and buyers on a fixed income, the companys press release also warns that equity will build up more slowly as a result of the lower payments and a lot more total interest will be paid over the extra 10 years. Still, this new loan may be a viable alternative to home buyers who may soon be finding themselves in trouble with the popular interest-only and option adjustable-rate mortgages -- especially if the Fed ups the interest rates
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Credit Card and Mortgage Debt Fuels Foreclosure
The study showed that consumers carried debt loads that substantially exceeded their income and, as a result, bankruptcy — or foreclosure — were their only reasonable options. Add mounting mortgage payments to the credit card debt and a gloomier picture emerges for overextended borrowers — in part because so many homeowners are now trapped by payments that are about to soar, even as the real estate market slumps. Debt! No word better describes why millions of Americans are now facing foreclosure.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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