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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Why is someone who invests in real estate a “speculator” while corporations that Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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. In making the sales, the brokers allegedly misrepresented
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
You can guess what happens next: No subprime loans, no high cost loans, no buyers, no sales. big chunk of the real estate market will close down. This seems to make a lot of sense until you enter the real world. Such investors are essentially buyers of IOUs secured by real estate, IOUs which hopefully will yield a given New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One By Peter G. Miller It’s fight time in New York.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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How a Short Sale Can Stop Foreclosure, Short Selling Bank Foreclosures - RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Bank-Owned Properties and REO Frequently Asked Questions - RealtyTrac
REO is an acronym for real estate owned and is industry jargon for foreclosure property repossessed by banks or lenders. Some lenders post bank-owned real estate lists on their websites. Smaller local banks usually have one individual who is in charge of the banks REO inventory. Bank-Owned Properties and REO (FAQ) Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial What is an REO? If a lender or bank is the highest bidder a foreclosure auction — or if no third party bids at the auction — the property reverts back to the lender and becomes an REO.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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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Bubble monitoring
For instance, there are a plethora ofblogs such as The Housing Bubble and Northern New Jersey Real Estate Bubble that use the rising foreclosure numbers shown by RealtyTracs data tosupport their theory of a real estate bubble about to burst. One of the best reads among the bubble blog genre is BubbleMarkets Inventory Tracking , which regularly uses RealtyTrac data totrack how a " property flipper in trouble "has fallen into foreclosure on several investment properties. Its always fascinating to see the different ways people useRealtyTracs foreclosure data.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Why is someone who invests in real estate a “speculator” while corporations that Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks,
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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2007: Housing Slowdown Good for Foreclosures
The cooling real estate sector will continue to plague the national economy next year, but enough positive economic fundamentals remain in place to counteract forces threatening to push the U.S. That means 2007 should be a good year for anyone involved in the foreclosure sector of the market — whether they are real estate agents, potential home buyers or real estate investors. Some highlights of the Chapman forecast: The sky isn’t falling, but housing prices are projected to decline 2.2 housing market into a full tailspin, according to forecasters at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
Growing trouble in the subprime mortgage industry could not come at a worse time for the battered housing sector, which has been in a yearlong tailspin of stagnant sales, rising inventories, plunging prices and growing defaults. If this scenario unfolds as predicted, mortgage lenders will look to real estate investors, home buyers and agents to bail them out. Panic is spreading in the U.S. subprime mortgage market after the bankruptcy of at least 20 lenders in the last two months, triggering a mass liquidation of securities on Wall Street and an avalanche of foreclosure
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
The increase in public real estate auctions. Then there’s the nation’s retail industry, advertising sales events at after-Thanksgiving sales price levels the weekend after Halloween!!! The good news for real estate investors and anyone else looking to buy real estate at below market prices anyway, is it looks like the inventory of available foreclosure properties is going to be around for quite a while longer. Posted 11-13-2007 5:15 PM by joelc 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
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Local Market Perspective: Lake Havasu, Ariz.
real estate market is still declining. I am seeing a rise in foreclosures and short sales far higher than May of 2007. My last seven sales have all been bank-owned homes, with over 171 contacts from my RealtyTrac source. Unfortunately, what folks hear in the news, for the most part, does not apply to Lake Havasu; with it being a second home community, people from out of state With a population of fewer than 55,000, the Lake Havasu, Ariz., With our beautiful Lake and hot summers, we are considered a vacation and second home community.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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March Goes Out Like a Lamb
Will Spring sales keep foreclosure rates from creeping up? rsharga Posted 04-18-2006 6:37 PM by Rick Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends Comments
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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