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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
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  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
  
  Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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• 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
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
  
  number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. They thought long-term instead of quarterly; made sure their underwriting standards made sense and now show profits.” Which lenders? The result is that the company has small expenses and few bad loans so it costs Hudson about 20 cents to create an additional dollar of revenue versus the industry standard of roughly 61 cents. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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,
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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• 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to put an end to prepayment penalties for home mortgages and to set up a $2 billion federal fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign. Sensing an opportunity
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. 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.
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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