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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
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.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. 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. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. The purpose of prepayment penalties is to keep loans — and the interest income they generate — outstanding for as long as possible. Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation’s fourth-largest banking
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. The purpose of prepayment penalties is to keep loans — and the interest income they generate — outstanding for as long as possible. Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G. Miller With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation’s fourth-largest banking
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
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.” According to the SECs complaint “each defendant was a mortgage broker as well as a registered representative and collected compensation from the mortgage refinancings as well as the sales of securities. That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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California Foreclosures 2007: Steady As She Goes
Still, enough of the prime indicators are projected to turn and remain negative — or slightly positive at best — this year to conclude that the flow of California foreclosures will at least remain steady. of the median family income to buy a median-priced home in the state compared to only 23.1 percent of the median family income to purchase a median-priced home at the Through November, RealtyTrac tallied nearly 130,000 properties that entered some stage of foreclosure in California alone during 2006; accounting for roughly 11 percent of the nation’s foreclosures for the same period.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bush Foreclosure Solution Just Adds Water
Bush came out with a public policy statement negating any possibility of either a homeowner, or a lender bailout, given the impact the current mortgage crisis is having on the nation’s housing economy. So it comes as a surprise of sorts that the White House issued a statement earlier this week supporting the recent passage of HR 3648 by the House of Representatives, while at the same time asking that a key provision of the bill be watered down to the point of making its implementation temporary at best. The provision that is the focus of the White House proposal goes to the
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fighting Foreclosure: Seven Ways to Dodge Delinquency
Consult with a real estate attorney or an experienced real estate broker because reinstatement laws vary from state to state. You may qualify for this option if you recently lost your job, became ill and lost your source of income. You won’t save the house, but you do avoid the trauma of foreclosure and reduce the negative impact on your credit. The sharp rise in foreclosure activity in recent months does not paint a pretty picture for distressed borrowers: 437,000 foreclosure filings were reported in the first quarter of this year, according to RealtyTrac .
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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You Too Can Predict the Future...Maybe
think subprime loans have made it possible for a lot of low-income households to buy a home for the first time. According to the Chapman Composite Index of Consumer Sentiment, while responses to the survey were negative when it came to the current and future economic conditions (to the lowest level seen since the survey began in Q3 2002), consumers did answer positively to their future spending plans for big ticket items (although the uptick was only 5 points for Q1 2008 after a 16-point decline for Q4 2007). Time to dust off those Ouija boards and take out the tea leaves. The way
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. 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. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller Step right
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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