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Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
Wells Fargo, the biggest originator of subprime loans, according to National Mortgage News , announced this week that they would be cutting 320 jobs in their subprime mortgage division because of tighter lending standards. It’s a downward spiral that threatens to suck down the entire housing market. The subprime mortgage industry is stumbling under a heavy burden of defaults, watching profits dwindle as lenders are forced to buy back loans that have turned sour. This bottom-line reality is forcing many lenders to tighten their lending requirements.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - 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. — 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.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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First-Time Buyers Get Help with CA Foreclosure Purchase
First-time homebuyers in California are getting help in purchasing their piece of the American Dream thanks to a public-private partnership and $200 million in bond funds allocated to the California Housing Finance Agency (CalFHA). Gov. The catch is buyers have to be willing to buy their dream home in one of the designated areas approved by CalFHA — such as Alameda, Contra Costa and Riverside counties — and the foreclosure property must be specifically set aside for the program and owned by one of the participating lenders — including Wells Fargo, HomeEq, CitiMortgage
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • First-Time Buyers Get Help with CA Foreclosure Purchase
    First-time homebuyers in California are getting help in purchasing their piece of the American Dream thanks to a public-private partnership and $200 million in bond funds allocated to the California Housing Finance Agency (CalFHA). Gov. The catch is buyers have to be willing to buy their dream home in one of the designated areas approved by CalFHA — such as Alameda, Contra Costa and Riverside counties — and the foreclosure property must be specifically set aside for the program and owned by one of the participating lenders — including Wells Fargo, HomeEq, CitiMortgage
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
    Wells Fargo, the biggest originator of subprime loans, according to National Mortgage News , announced this week that they would be cutting 320 jobs in their subprime mortgage division because of tighter lending standards. It’s a downward spiral that threatens to suck down the entire housing market. The subprime mortgage industry is stumbling under a heavy burden of defaults, watching profits dwindle as lenders are forced to buy back loans that have turned sour. This bottom-line reality is forcing many lenders to tighten their lending requirements.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    READ MORE
  • 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. — 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.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    READ MORE