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Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse
Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse The Washington Post The battered housing market appears to be on the mend, with sales climbing nationally and prices leveling off, even rising in some spots. But swelling unemployment and the related delinquencies...( read more
Foreclosure Pulse
- Thursday, July 30, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
Share values have dropped more 90 percent, investors have lost more than $100 billion, and both companies were rescued by the federal government earlier this month, placed in a government conservatorship run by the newly created Federal Housing Finance Agency. 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.
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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. 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. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse
Housing Market Teeters Between Recovery, Relapse The Washington Post The battered housing market appears to be on the mend, with sales climbing nationally and prices leveling off, even rising in some spots. But swelling unemployment and the related delinquencies...( read more
Foreclosure Pulse
- Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Realtors '07 Forecast Looks Promising for Future Foreclosure Activity
At Wednesday’s Opening Session of California Realtor EXPO 2006, Leslie Appleton-Young, Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors, presented her housing forecast for next year , calling for the state’s median home price to drop for the first time in 10 years and the pace of home sales to continue to decrease. The CAR forecast also calls for a 2 percent drop in the state’s median home price next year from a projected median price of $561,000 for 2006, down to a projected median of $550,000 in 2007 — a stark contrast to a year ago when most forecasters were predicting
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Where to find the best deals on foreclosures
Our analysis of nationwide foreclosure property sales in the last seven months shows that while some areas of the country documented a plethora of properties in foreclosure and big savings on foreclosure purchases, other areas reported relatively low foreclosure inventories and smaller average savings on foreclosure purchases. In addition, the low average sales price of foreclosures in these states makes it easier to purchase a foreclosure property — especially at foreclosure auctions, where the full amount in cash is sometimes required. It’s important for buyers and investors who are interested in the foreclosures market to carefully evaluate local market conditions before diving into foreclosures in any given area.
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- 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. Ongoing weakness in the housing market, along with held-for-sale mortgages, net losses in the company’s trading securities portfolio and losses on investment grade mortgage-backed securities were cited as key contributors to the projected loss for the quarter. Countrywide. Citigroup.
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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. House Finance Services Committee in Cuyahoga County Wednesday. 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 sales were up 6 percent for the quarter One news report on the outcome One example — Rep. Steven C.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Not Enough Rope in Administration's Lifeline' Program
Called “Project Lifeline,” it has the backing of Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Faith Schwartz, Executive Director of the Hope Now Alliance, a foreclosure prevention coalition of the public and private sectors. Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo & Co. — Plus, the program is not available to borrowers 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies. More specifically, however, the Fed announcement highlighted a number of factors for its decision such as subdued household and business spending, soft labor markets, stressed out financial markets, tight credit conditions and the continuation of the housing contraction. In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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When Foreclosure Is Not Politically Correct
14, 2007 for $18,356, followed by a Notice of Trustees Sale being recorded on March 19, 2008. At the time of sale Richardson allegedly owed her lender, Washington Mutual, more than $578,000 thanks to the 100 percent financing used to purchase the home and the additional fees and costs incurred by foreclosure. But they should be very cautious in doing so given that there is no clear sign the housing market has reached bottom yet. Posted 05-23-2008 Typically when you read about a politician and foreclosure, it’s in relation to some piece of legislation created to combat the recent surge in foreclosures.
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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. Commerce Department reported that new home sales in February were down 1.8 Wall Street was happy to hear that existing home sales were up nearly 3 percent between January and February. 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 Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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