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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Loans can be brought current and homes can be sold or refinanced to avoid foreclosure. In a remarkable advocacy ad in The Washington Post , ING said “we believe that lending institutions should share responsibility with the people to whom they lend. 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
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. But for those with toxic loans, a high-cost mortgage with sane terms is better than foreclosure, bankruptcy and having your stuff sitting on the curb. Equity Sharing During the past few months there has been a huge debate in Washington regarding how to assist those with toxic loans, assuming they should get any assistance at all. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
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 with its Pick-A-Pay mortgage to allow customers complete flexibility in their home financing decisions. If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have passed measures
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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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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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Avoid and Stop Foreclosure - Help at RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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U.S. Foreclosure Laws
Knowing the process in your state will help you adopt a more effective investing strategy and avoid procedural pitfalls. State Foreclosure Laws Quickly locate and review the foreclosure law specific to your state � or any state you�re considering investing in. Select A State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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History in Sen. Dodd's Favor, But Nothing Else
time when politicians come out in droves to complain to the American public about pork-barrel spending and the massive red tape involved by increased Washington bureaucracy. What Dodd suggested last week, at least as a temporary fix, is for the federal government to create a new agency called the Home Ownership Preservation Corp. Fashioned after the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. It’s a presidential election year. A
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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. And for subscribers to RealtyTrac — albeit investors, real estate agents or potential homebuyers — Ohio is a land of opportunity right now. 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 One example — Rep. Steven C.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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40 Is the New 30 for Lenders and Investors
Wells Fargo, for example, just announced that it is joining the growing number of lenders, like Washington Mutual and Bank of America, that are offering 40-year fixed-rate loans. 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 more this year due to increased fears of inflation.stemming from higher energy costs and low unemployment. Well, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke decides on his next move -- will he or wont he ratchet up interest rates another 25 basis points next month as most economists are predicting -- mortgage lenders are also pondering their next moves.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Fouls Up Sports Stars
It’s not just average Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure these days. Even rich and famous athletes who earned millions of dollars during their careers can be subjected to the emotional highs and lows of losing a home. Two recent cases in point: record-setting baseball player Jose Canseco , and former NBA star Latrell Sprewell . Canseco, who first came to prominence as a right fielder with the Oakland Athletics back in the 1980s, has decided to walk away Canseco owed Washington Mutual more than $2.5 million on the 7,300 square foot mansion
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
Just a few short months ago President Bush stood in front of the press and swore that it was not the federal government’s job to bail out either lenders who made bad loans or speculative homebuyers who purchased more home than they could rightly afford utilizing the so-called “exotic” or “liar loans” popularized over the past few years. Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo & Co. — Last week Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson threw out what the administration considers to be a life preserver to homeowners facing foreclosure. In reality what they threw out is no more than
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
1) The National Association of Realtors announced Monday that existing home sales nationwide were up for the month of February compared to January. 2) On Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index reported the worst decline in home prices since the company started tracking data back in 1987. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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