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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . Thats a 70 percent premium over the stocks pre-acquisition value — but far from the one-year high of $77.89. The WAMU Deal In September, JP Morgan Chase paid $1.9 billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie in the window?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Speaking at the start of September, Hermance said his bank had some 80,000 mortgages outstanding. Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. It’s a financial instrument that may be right for some, but it wasn’t meant to be the mass merchandised product it became.” Higgins points out that “ING DIRECT has kept every loan it has originated. 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
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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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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All Aboard, Take a Ride on the Foreclosure Bus Tour
Just take a ride on the repo home tour. Every Saturday, Dias packs in homebuyers into a bus tour of foreclosed homes in Stockton. In September, for example, Stockton had 2,422 foreclosure filings, compared to 330 foreclosure filings in September of 2006, according to RealtyTrac . If the foreclosures keep going up in Stockton, Dais may need to buy a fleet of foreclosure buses to How do buyers find foreclosures in a downward real estate cycle? That’s easy.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. And prices of existing homes fell in August for the first time in 11 years as sales dipped to their lowest Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
The problem is, many industry analysts are starting to come around to the idea that this “correction” may not bottom out until either year’s end 2008 or sometime in 2009. Today’s action, combined with the policy action taken in September, should help forestall some of the adverse effects on the broader economy that might otherwise arise from the disruptions in financial markets and promote moderate growth over time,” the FOMC said in a statement published October 31. In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window?
In September Merrill was bought by the Bank of America for $29 a share . Thats a 70 percent premium over the stocks pre-acquisition value — but far from the one-year high of $77.89. The WAMU Deal In September, JP Morgan Chase paid $1.9 billion in home equity loans and lines of credit. How Much for Those Lender Assets in the Window? By Peter G. Miller Long ago there was a song which asked the magic question, how much for that doggie in the window?
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
Detroit’s Wayne County reported 4,190 properties entering foreclosure in September, the second most only behind Chicago’s Cook County (whose fans didn’t have any team to cheer in the playoffs this year). The marquee at the State Theatre — just a short walk from Comerica Park, the teams home field — reads: "Lets Party Like Its 1984," a nod to the last time the Tigers won the series. “ In addition to raising the spirits of the city’s residents, the World Series has likely given a temporary boost to the local economy with a sizeable infusion of tourist dollars. The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
Lastly, 50 percent of the yellow loans may go into default. Still, the bottom line is no matter how you divide up the data, you can expect foreclosure levels to increase over the next few years as the various forms of adjustable mortgages utilized to fund purchases of more home than most people could afford ratchet up their interest rates. In fact a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal Finance poll revealed that 38 percent of adults have used a “creative or payment option mortgage” in The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
You say you want to buy a home but have no money. Let me introduce you to the option ARM, an affordability mortgage product that can get you into the home of your dreams.... See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right up folks.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Mortgage Reform to Calm Foreclosure Storm
In an attempt to address the recent downturn in the real estate market — evidenced by rising foreclosures and falling home prices and which many believe may threaten to undermine the overall economy — the House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that imposes more stringent regulatory oversight of the mortgage industry. Illinois House Bill 4050, a pilot program for 10 Chicago zip codes that was enacted in September 2006, was suspended by Gov. Called The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007, the bill ( H.R. 3915 ) claims to "amend the Truth in
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. The worry is that they may be captured under the new state definition of “subprime” loans, a worry which German says is shared by many mortgage investors. 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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