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How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures
How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures August 24, 2009, TIME Magazine It's hard to drive down a residential street in Miami Gardens, Fla., and not see two, three, four houses in foreclosure. Some have been on the auction block since last year...( read more )
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Foreclosure Pulse
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
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 adjustable rate mortgages," option ARMs are the most complex residential loan products ever offered.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. The drop in residential construction is steeper and over a longer time than many analysts had predicted. Likewise, housing starts are forecasted to drop from their recent high in 2006 at 1.8 The worst of the downward national housing 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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Housing glut gives foreclosure buyers and investors advantage
Storm clouds are gathering over the nation’s battered housing market. Fueling the latest concerns is a deluge of discouraging data in the housing sector. million empty houses were listed for sale during October, November and December, according to the Census Bureau . That suggests that prices may have to fall further for sales Depending on whom you ask, the forecast calls for either thunderstorms or gale force hurricane winds. Home prices and sales plunge Sales of existing single-family homes declined in 40 states and in half of the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study: Brokers, Minority Borrowers to Blame for Most Mortgage Delinquencies
Study: Brokers, Minority Borrowers to Blame for Most Mortgage Delinquencies DSNews Residential mortgages originated by brokers at the height of the housing boom, as well as loans given to minority borrowers, are to blame for the lion’s share of...( read more
Foreclosure Pulse
- Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures
How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures August 24, 2009, TIME Magazine It's hard to drive down a residential street in Miami Gardens, Fla., and not see two, three, four houses in foreclosure. Some have been on the auction block since last year...( read more )
...Tags: Tags: Foreclosure Sales
Foreclosure Pulse
- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
Economics 401 – Effects of a housing ‘slump’? When James L. That question is: “What IF housing prices plummet?” If housing prices plummeted like they did back in the early 1990s, the loan-to-value ratio on many mortgages might force homeowners into foreclosure, providing new opportunities for real estate investors, speculators, real estate agents and anyone looking to buy a home from the foreclosure pipeline. Doti, president of Chapman University, updated his 2006 economic forecast for the nation, he did have one question that could throw a monkey wrench into the equation, and he called it, THE BIG IF .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. 3915 ) claims to "amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to establish licensing and registration requirements for residential mortgage originators, to provide certain minimum standards
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
billion auction industry is residential real estate auctions, which jumped 12.5 When banks take back foreclosed-upon homes, they sometimes hire auction houses to unload properties. Moreover, an owner or tenant living in the house may or may not be cooperative about moving out. Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Thanks to a sharp rise in foreclosure filings nationwide, homebuyers and real estate investors are increasingly likely to encounter bank-owned properties that are for sale at real estate auctions. The increased
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosure's Fallout, 2 Titans Tumble
Every time Wall Street executives and economists think they have acknowledged the full extent of the subprime mortgage meltdown in the residential real estate sector, more bad news is uncovered. Nobody knows how many billions of dollars the embattled bank has lost, but Wall Street investors are growing more concerned about the deteriorating housing market and the widening impact of the growing credit crunch. Last week, Citigroup’s chief executive Charles Prince tendered his resignation — another casualty of the growing subprime fiasco. Prior to Prince’s departure, Citigroup said
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of its purchase-only house price index. “These percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
But as the rising tide of mortgage debt grows, many of those homeowners will unfortunately sink, drowning in foreclosure red ink. For the thousands of homeowners who jumped into turbulent housing waters via these easy-to-qualify-for loans, they are now succumbing to a riptide of bad news. Earlier in the year, there was a lot of discussion about a “soft landing” for the residential real estate market. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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