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Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes
At some point, many of these properties will be repossessed and put back on the market. Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes The Los Angeles Times The backlog of California homes in default, but not yet repossessed, keeps growing. Until then...( read more
Foreclosure Pulse
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
Unlike virtually every other mortgage lender, Hudson doesn’t make option ARMs, doesn’t sell loans in the secondary market and doesn’t offer credit cards. Hudson offers mortgages on special terms for borrowers with low and moderate incomes , however, it does not market option ARMs or subprime loans, nor does it originate FHA or VA mortgages. It doesn’t sell mortgages in the secondary market, thus Hudson doesn’t have No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma
Housing prices must fall to get the national average from 200K down below from 70K to reset the housing market and get equities back in line with reality." What is it that has so many people mad with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? If you believe in free markets and fair competition, the GSEs are a poke in the eye. "As long as Fannie and Freddies debt is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Long-Term Solution for Fannie and Freddie Dilemma By Peter G. Miller Its been a rough year for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The severity of that impact, however, is open to discussion — depending, of course, on how you choose to massage the data to prove your point. Director of Research and Analytics for First American Real Estate Solutions, said that even with $1 trillion of adjustable-rate mortgages ready to reset to higher interest rates in both 2007 and 2008, he believes the number of defaults and foreclosures resulting from the increased mortgage payments will be “painful but won’t break the economy or the market.” Basing his comments on data collected on first mortgages — with an emphasis on those
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes
At some point, many of these properties will be repossessed and put back on the market. Lenders hesitating to repossess California homes The Los Angeles Times The backlog of California homes in default, but not yet repossessed, keeps growing. Until then...( read more
Foreclosure Pulse
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Foreclosure Mortgage Loans - Estimating the Costs Involved - RealtyTrac
More than 1 million total properties including REO, For Sale by Owner, and Home Auctions! In a buyer’s market... However, realize that most of those bargain properties won’t stay on the market for long. Foreclosure Mortgage Loans: Estimating the Costs Involved Search Properties | Free 7-Day Trial Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Bank-Owned properties. it can be tempting to jump at the great deals that
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies. In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25 percent the Fed started with when it cut the first 50 basis points off in Sept.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Gentle January Foreclosure Increase
And in either case, does that make the current market a good one in which to buy or invest in real estate? Or is it better to wait until the market falls further? Of course, the answer will vary from region to region, but provide supporting evidence from your area. View full report with state-by-state data. Posted 02-26-2008 2:01 AM by darenb Filed under: Pre-Foreclosures , Foreclosure Although they were up 57 percent from January 2007 and 8 percent from December, the January foreclosure numbers released today by RealtyTrac do not appear to represent the massive wave of foreclosures that is expected to hit sometime soon thanks to the rash of risky loans given to borrowers as late as just last year .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 At the same time the FOMC decided to take the opportunity to move its discount rate down 50 basis points as well to 1.75 Moreover, the intensification of financial market turmoil is likely to exert additional restraint on spending, partly by further reducing the ability In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday.
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- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Foreclosure Bargains on the Beach
What it comes down to in order to successfully purchase beachfront property is identifying good potential markets to invest in, and doing some legwork and research to analyze what it is going to take in order to put together a deal with the homeowner or lender involved in the foreclosure. Recently, RealtyTrac published its own list of potential beachfront investment communities ripe for the purchase of vacation homes on the home page of Yahoo! The cities/towns featured in the “10 Bargain Beach Towns” article are: • Clinton, CT • Rocky Point, NY
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Statue Offers Homeowners a Prayer' of Hope
Even those homeowners who are not currently facing foreclosure may be at some point in time if they can’t sell their home. No matter why they are trying to sell, today’s declining market is bad enough that some homeowners are starting to look at alternative options for intervention, choosing not to wait for government entities that promise to offer up a ray of hope a day late and a dollar short. According to a recent poll , government intervention is not the kind many buyers are looking to these days. So far in 2008 nearly 240,000 households have been facing some stage of the foreclosure process on average every month.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Good Morning Mr. Bernanke!
Well, something finally clicked because Bernanke and the members of the Federal Open Market Committee acted this morning, and started cutting rates (although not the rate most economists — and the real estate industry in particular — are waiting for them to cut). The Fed sliced 50 basis points (one-half a percentage point) off of its discount rate — the rate it charges banks to borrow federal funds — from 6.25 According to this morning’s press reports the Fed has also injected billions of dollars into the nation’s economy in the past week alone to quell both building
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Appreciation Rates Foreshadow Foreclosures
Third-quarter house price appreciation figures released last week by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight provide more evidence of a cooling real estate market and further foreshadowing of a continued rise in foreclosures — all pointing to more opportunities for real estate investors to buy low. Foreclosure Market Report . The OFHEO report shows national house prices rose 7.73 percent from the third quarter of 2005, down from a 10.06
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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