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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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May State Foreclosure Data
properties during the month, a decrease of 6 percent from the previous month but an increase of nearly 18 percent from May 200 Foreclosure filings were reported on 321,480 U.S.
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May State Foreclosure Data
properties during the month, a decrease of 6 percent from the previous month but an increase of nearly 18 percent from May 200 Foreclosure filings were reported on 321,480 U.S.
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Waning Confidence a Concern That May Help Foreclosures
If these concerns fuel a downward spiral, home prices could drop significantly, resulting in a loss of homeowner equity (which in itself could have serious economic repurcussions) and an increase in the inventory of foreclosure properties. Experts like Doti see this scenario as unlikely. And unless something fairly dramatic happens to cause the housing market to take a dump like it did in the early 1990s, the chances are that folks looking to the foreclosure pipeline for significant deals are going to have to broaden their search for properties. With coverage from over 2,500
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Buying Bank-Owned REOs at the Auction - RealtyTrac
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 presence of lender-owned homes in the market — known in the banking industry as REOs, for "real estate owned" — is fallout from the recent real estate boom that marked the first half of this decade.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
A rising number of Americans — particularly those who took out riskier adjustable-rate and subprime mortgages — are increasingly defaulting on their loans, according to figures released this week by RealtyTrac , providing striking evidence that a growing number of borrowers are at risk of losing their homes. properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according to RealtyTrac research . Foreclosure filings jumped 42 percent nationwide in 2006, accelerating a trend that began in 2005 as home sales started to cool. Last year, 1,259,118
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Rise in Home Values Keeps Foreclosures in Check
While this is good news for anyone who owns a home, there is a potential downside to this forecast for anyone interested in foreclosure property. And it is one of the reasons that foreclosure activity is expected to remain at a slow upward rate of increase, as evidenced by the latest national numbers reported by RealtyTrac for May 2006. So anyone who has owned a home for more than two years may have a pool of money that can be used to Economics 301 – Home Price Appreciation and Household Net Wealth According to the Business & Economic Review June 2006 released last week by the A.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
The 3 percent decrease may lead some to speculate that the upward trend in foreclosure activity may be nearing an end, but as RealtyTrac CEO James J. quot;The year-over-year increase of more than 50 percent indicates we have not yet reached the top of this foreclosure cycle," he said. What may be a better argument -- although certainly not an ironclad case -- that the foreclosure surge is starting to run out U.S. foreclosure activity in June decreased 3 percent from the previous month but was still up 53 percent from June 2007, according to the RealtyTrac U.S.
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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. In the latter case, the homeowner offers to convey ownership of the property to the foreclosing
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . The S&P figures for May show declines in all 20 metro areas reported for the second straight month — nine with record lows and 10 in double digits. In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Separating the wheat from the chaff: legitimate foreclosure investors vs. scammers
The homeowner said he was trickedinto signing over the title of his home by a scam artist who didnothing to stop the foreclosure and then took out another loan againstthe property with no intention of paying it off. It is a crime thatconsumer advocates fear could become increasingly common — especiallyin Southern California, where many homeowners have stretched themselvesto their financial limits to afford the regions record high housingprices. "The An article in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday documented the sad story of a defaulted homeowner who was thevictim of alleged foreclosure fraud.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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