10 Articles match "Homes","Inventory","Standards"

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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. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's, in a press release issued to announce the numbers. "Little Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 percent from their peak in July 2006. "There
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Now Homebuilders Face Foreclosure
  
  based Levitt & Sons, Elliott Building Group in Pennsylvania, Turner-Dunn Homes Inc. in Arizona, Kara Homes Inc. in New Jersey, and Neumann Homes Inc. Sales of new homes have suffered the biggest decline since records began in 1963. For millions of Americans facing foreclosure, the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut this week was welcome news that could possibly help save thousands of homeowners from default by giving them the opportunity to refinance their adjustable-rate loan into a fixed-rate mortgage with a lower interest rate. But for many U.S.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
  
  As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. reported big losses from loan defaults due to sagging home prices and higher interest rates. Panic is spreading in the U.S. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
  
  came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for at least the immediate future. According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued to fall in April 2008, with prices in all 20 metro areas it studies for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showing annual declines. Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. Of those
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Don't Dump Investors
  
  The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. These efforts are to help American families who both want to and can, through a loan modification or re-financing, stay in their homes.” Its not the governments job to bail out speculators, or those who made the decision to buy a home they knew they could never afford.” Because Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller    When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Legislating Lower Foreclosure Rates?
  
  But opponents say the law is cutting down on the legitimate loans available to residents of the 10 zip codes and thereby will lower house values by reducing the number of potential buyers who can qualify for a loan, creating a glut of unsold inventory. The bill requires certain “high risk” mortgage applicants to receive credit counseling before taking out a home loan, and only applies to state-chartered loan originators, not federally chartered loan originators, according to the Chicago Association of Realtors. The ways it does that is it: Limits the amount so-called mortgage
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• Big Ben Is Finally Talking Foreclosures
  
  The fact that refinancing is out of the question for many distressed homeowners now that lending standards have been tightened all over the country. And the fact that the number of vacant homes had risen to more than 2 million units at year-end 2007. For now the inventory of foreclosed properties will grow for the foreseeable future, giving legitimate real estate investors, first-time homebuyers, and real estate professionals Big Ben Bernanke, that guy at the top of the nation’s financial food chain, finally admitted Tuesday in an address to a group of the nation’s community bankers that foreclosures are not going to go away anytime soon. The Fed Chief gave two reasons for the bleak forecast (both of which have been espoused in previous posts in this blog): 1) further declines in housing prices are expected; and 2) significant resets of adjustable interest rates to unaffordable levels for many borrowers who were convinced to take out the more risky loan products of the past few years.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
  
  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. At the heart of the dispute is newly-enacted legislation which says lenders can’t foreclose subprime or high cost borrowers in the state unless a lengthy list of standards has first been met. New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller     It’s fight time in New York.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. Unlike equity sharing, with appreciation sharing if the property’s value goes down Uncle Sam or an investor is not responsible for any part of the loss. “If we’re going to restore home values nationwide then we need to get more buyers into the marketplace,” says James J. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• The Government Goes After Loan Officers
  
  They have good reason to worry: Its easy to see how the SEC standard can be applied to many of the loans sold during the past few years. Stated income loans hurt everyone, the home buyer, the institution who buys the loan on the secondary market, and even the home shopper who does not inflate their income to purchase a home. Because of stated income loans, home prices have gone up so dramatically that homes are now unobtainable The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller    One of the most galling
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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