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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Now the immunity enjoyed by lenders may be at an end. new and surprising player is looking at failed mortgages, and looking in a way which may suggest that many loan officers will have to pay up. Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
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 Independent website. "Let Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Of all the mortgage ideas developed during the past few years, none tops the option ARM for sheer awfulness. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing payments. For instance, to reduce down payment requirements Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How to Buy HUD Home Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, HUD Home Foreclosures, Resale, and Home Auctions! Almost anyone can qualify... After you’ve come up with a rough idea of how much you can afford, make an appointment with a lender. How Can I Buy HUD Home Foreclosures? Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government properties. Almost anyone can qualify to buy
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
The problem is, many industry analysts are starting to come around to the idea that this “correction” may not bottom out until either year’s end 2008 or sometime in 2009. Then there’s the nation’s retail industry, advertising sales events at after-Thanksgiving sales price levels the weekend after Halloween!!! In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5 percent.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bank-Repossession Beat Continues in March
And for the second month in a row, the number of bank repossessions, or REOs, was up more than 100 percent year over year. The implication: while significantly more homeowners are falling into foreclosure, there is an even bigger increase in the number of homeowners already in the process who are losing their homes to foreclosure — whether through the typical foreclosure sale mechanism or whether by pre-empting the public foreclosure sale through what is called a deed in lieu of foreclosure. The lender also has to agree to the DIL arrangement, which may involve clearing out
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The Fed Rate Decision is Ongoing'
Does it mean that the nation’s real estate market’s bubble finally burst to such an extreme that they have no idea of when it might turn around? Does it mean we may yet be facing a recession in the future (however mild or wild it may turn out to be)? Even the National Association of Realtors, which originally thought the nation’s housing market would turn around significantly by year-end 2007, is pulling back a bit on its The Federal Reserve is starting to sound like a broken record. Oops!
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Poll: Buyers to Remain on the Fence
Other survey results included: • A quarter of the 769 homeowners included in the random sample of 1,002 adults surveyed nationwide were worried that their homes may continue to lose value over the next two years. • For one, existing home sales — which went up in February — may be nothing more than a momentary blip on the radar screen. The idea that If the results of the latest Associated Press-AOL Money & Finance poll are any indication, prospective home buyers will be keeping their wallets closed and remain on the fence at least until the latest economic downturn blows over.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Another Approach to $700 Billion Bailout
If a typical home has an average sale price of about $220,000 (many homes now facing foreclosure were financed several years ago with two loans, thus first loans are often significantly less than current market values), and if the average mortgage is $176,000 (80 percent of market values) then the total value of such mortgages would be $440 billion. If the refinancing program was limited to half of the homeowners who will probably lose their homes to foreclosure, Uncle Sam would need to provide loans worth $220 billion. "(Another) alternative idea works like this: Instead of replacing
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Stop Home Foreclosure
Your lender may agree to accept the sale as total satisfaction of your mortgage obligation even if the proceeds of the sale are less than the amount that you actually owe. This is called a short sale. The "as is” appraised value and the sale price should be least 70 percent to 80 percent of the unpaid principal balance of the home. How to Sell Your House Quickly When Facing Foreclosure By LaTonya S. Johnson If you are currently in foreclosure, strongly consider selling your property as a backup plan.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Local Market Perspective: Cape Coral, Fla.
In our city, the bank has taken the property back but they may not have paid all the liens from our code enforcement and generally speaking that does not come up until the final title search is done, so a delay is normal. It is like being at an auction, but you don’t see any of the competition and you have no idea if you are bidding against the listing agent and or listing office, or how high you should bid. Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of guest blog posts from members of the RealtyTrac Agent Network . The agents will be sharing their insights about what
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Now the immunity enjoyed by lenders may be at an end. new and surprising player is looking at failed mortgages, and looking in a way which may suggest that many loan officers will have to pay up. Most investors who bought these securities,” says the SEC, “lacked the cash or income to do so, but were urged by their brokers to raise the money to pay for the purchases and the monthly payments required for these products by refinancing their fixed-rate mortgages into subprime adjustable-rate negative amortization mortgages.” The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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