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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
At the time of that debate virtually all banks, credit card companies, student loan lenders, car financing firms and related businesses stridently supported bankruptcy “reform” — but one notable exception was ING DIRECT. In a remarkable advocacy ad in The Washington Post , ING said “we believe that lending institutions should share responsibility with the people to whom they lend. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. The hook is this: Under the FHA reform measure borrowers and lenders who take advantage of the HOPE for Homeowners program will face stiff fees and big costs. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future?
www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. They are the ones that are causing this to go under, and there’s no transparency, no accountability,” Biden told The Washington Post . With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
    Miller     We’re about to see something new in the mortgage marketplace: The government is going to insure huge numbers of shared-appreciation mortgages, a type of home financing rarely seen in the U.S. The hook is this: Under the FHA reform measure borrowers and lenders who take advantage of the HOPE for Homeowners program will face stiff fees and big costs. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. It’s a big experiment and it raises a bigger question: Is this the loan of the future?
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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  • As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
    Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. They are the ones that are causing this to go under, and there’s no transparency, no accountability,” Biden told The Washington Post . With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
    www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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  • No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
    At the time of that debate virtually all banks, credit card companies, student loan lenders, car financing firms and related businesses stridently supported bankruptcy “reform” — but one notable exception was ING DIRECT. In a remarkable advocacy ad in The Washington Post , ING said “we believe that lending institutions should share responsibility with the people to whom they lend. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
    www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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