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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
billion for the “deposits, assets and certain liabilities of Washington Mutuals banking operations.” billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. lot of loan servicers, accountants and attorneys are going to be working nights and weekends to get the work done.” As an example, the surprise in the WAMU deal was not the high default rates for subprime or option ARMs, rather it was the huge losses associated with home equity lending. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Instead, what you see are lenders who merely stuck with tested, traditional lending concepts. not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
home mortgages. If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse the result would be the wholesale destruction of the national mortgage system; a virtual halt to home sales because few local mortgages would be available; soaring interest rates because few loans would be available and a level of losses throughout the economy unseen since the Great Depression. Second, some people think it would be a really good idea to dismember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "I say that we cant let them go fast enough," explains a commenter by the name of Wazzel who posted on the Washington Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. By every measure Wachovia is an important part of the lending community, so when it does something new or different in the mortgage arena the impact can be significant. More significantly — and unlike Wachovia’s competitors — it’s making it easier for borrowers to dump option-ARMs by waiving the prepayment penalties routinely associated with such loans. “Effectively immediately,” says the company, “Wachovia is waiving all prepayment fees associated Miller With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation’s fourth-largest banking institution .
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected. reported big losses from loan defaults due to sagging home prices and higher interest rates. And Doug Duncan, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, told Bloomberg News that more than 100 other lenders will go out of business this year. 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 of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. The study argues that subprime foreclosures will heavily impact the overall housing market because subprime loans now make up a quarter of all home
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Ohio Lawmaker Seeks Solution to Foreclosure Level
It looks like foreclosures are starting to become a national call to action for some Washington bureaucrats. Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise, the number of single-family permits are declining, the rate of home price appreciation is below the national average, and the state’s median home price declined in Q1, although home sales were up 6 percent for the quarter One news report on the outcome of the meeting has witnesses placing blame squarely on easy lending practices, which is the same story heard in many states around the country right now. One example — Rep.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
Meanwhile, the rising flood of foreclosures promises to become a major presidential campaign issue in the weeks and months ahead because an alarming 2 million American homeowners could lose their homes by November 2008. Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. Tightened lending guidelines are already in place at the national and state level, so future borrowers should be more well qualified and capable to maintain the standard of living they want to enjoy by buying a house they can actually afford. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Instead, what you see are lenders who merely stuck with tested, traditional lending concepts. not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Mayors Predict Rising Foreclosures in 2008
Mounting home foreclosures will lead to “profound” effects on the economy next year, bleeding billions of dollars in lost tax revenues, shrinking job growth and reducing consumer spending in the nation’s major metropolitan areas, according to a new report released this week by the U.S. Prepared by forecasting and consulting firm Global Insight , the report said weak residential investment, lower spending and income in the construction industry and curtailed consumer spending because of falling home values will combine to hold back the nation’s economic activity. Conference of Mayors .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
Below are excerpts from an article he wrote about these alternatives. "One alternative is to simply offer low-interest loans to borrowers who currently have toxic mortgages. "Figures developed by Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, show that the likely cost of low interest loans would be roughly $220 billion — hardly cheap, but a lot less expensive than the $700 billion plan now being discussed in Washington. "Sharga's million homes are likely to be in the "process of foreclosure" during the coming 12 to 18 months. Peter Miller, author of the Common-Sense Mortgage, has offered up some alternatives to the proposed $700 billion bailout plan.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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