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Don't Dump Investors
Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages theres no shortage of government interest and activity. After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. The investor double-standard is hardly hidden.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Fitch Ratings says in a just-issued report that option ARMs worth $200 billion are now outstanding. According to Fitch "the potential average payment increase on this recasting population is 63 percent, representing on average an additional $1,053 due each month on top of the current average payment of $1,672." You dont have to be a math major to figure out what will happen next: Huge numbers of option ARMs will fail in the next 24 to 30 months with results that will be devastating to borrowers, loan portfolios and local home values. How They Work Formally known as "payment option
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
The just-passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act includes provisions that will help some 400,000 families replace toxic loans with FHA financing. The Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981 created a new way to own and invest in real estate: Equity sharing. If investors are interested in mortgages at all, they’re willing to buy securities backed by prime loans and little else. “You can understand the investor’s perspective, Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller We’re about to
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Fed Remains in Hibernation on Interest Rates
After 17 consecutive meetings of raising interest rates, and a switch over to new leadership under Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve went into hibernation last August and has remained there ever since. On Wednesday the watchdog of federal monetary policy did what many economists expected it to do and hit the snooze button yet again, deciding to keep the short term federal funds rate at its current level of 5.25 percent. The recent actions of the Federal Open Market Committee may seem unresponsive to concerns of industries, like real estate, that believe lowering interest
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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U.S. Housing Starts Rise, Though Permits Fall
The pace of new home construction jumped in February by the largest amount in more than a year, but building permits continued to decline, indicating future weakness in the housing market, according a new Commerce Department report today. Total housing starts rose 9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.5 Fears that million units in February, higher than the 1.4 million units economists had predicted and the largest monthly increase since January 2006.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure percent on average next year, after an almost 50 percent run-up in appreciation between 2001 and 2006, says the Chapman Economic & Business Review December 2006 . Housing starts are expected to remain
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Forecasters Change Housing Estimates for '07/'08
The nation’s housing market is not cooperating the way analysts at the A. Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 The worst of the downward national housing price spiral is not over,” said economist and Chapman President James Doti in a press release distributed Tuesday . “Our Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., had hoped it would.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. Will (the foreclosure rate) go to 2 percent? Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University , the key concern is all those people who signed up for those “exotic” adjustable-rate mortgages in 2005 and thereafter. Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006. Now the stage
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Betting Everything on the House: 3 Risky Loans to Avoid
Falling prices, sluggish sales and risky loans that let borrowers pile up debt faster than they can pay it off could put more homeowners out of their houses this year than at any other time this decade. Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs) With an adjustable rate mortgage, also called ARMs, borrowers lock in a lower interest rate for the first few years. Yet many homeowners — particularly in California, Florida and Colorado — are still purchasing or refinancing their mortgages with “exotic” loans that may keep their monthly payments low now, but when these gimmicky loans “reset” upward borrowers could lose their homes if they haven’t planned for an increased monthly mortgage payment.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Mortgage Loans - Estimating the Costs Involved - RealtyTrac
Free online financial calculators are available on real estate sites such as RealtyTrac. Knowing what those types are, and how to utilize them, will leave a buyer or investor in the best possible position to be fully informed about finances before they go in to sign loan documents. Affordability Calculator — After income, monthly expenses, debts and any other monthly financial information are all entered, a much clearer picture forms as to how much of a home is truly affordable based on type of loan, interest rate and the length of the loan. Biweekly
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True
Organized real estate was begging for it. Bernanke is standing firm to his real world approach for interest rate adjustments. Wednesday Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Open Market Committee agreed unanimously to leave the short-term Federal Funds rate alone for the sixth straight time at 5.25 In its statement released Wednesday Wall Street was fantasizing about it. Industry analysts are still predicting that it’s going to happen, they just don’t know when.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Environment Not Ripe for Heavy Foreclosure Levels
This time around, Doti believes the nation is not on the verge of economic turmoil, and the number of jobs being lost is negligible considering that the Chapman forecast calls for the number of jobs created in this country to continue growing, albeit at a slower rate than in the past. One thing that does concern him, however, as well as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, is a higher rate of inflation. Economics 201 – Inflation In announcing his findings on the condition of the nation’s economy Wednesday, Chapman University President James L. Doti proclaimed that, in his opinion, the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures up 13 percent in February
Thats a foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure for every 986 U.S. foreclosure rate has moved higher, and it’s the second straight month new foreclosures have topped 100,000. In addition, bank-owned properties accounted for 39 percent of the total number, which is a higher percentage than usual and indicates that fewer homeowners in default have been able to stop the foreclosure process by selling or refinancing during pre-foreclosure." Georgia reported the nations highest foreclosure rate for the second RealtyTrac released our February 2006 foreclosure numbers today, and they show U.S.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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