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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 a new front
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- Tuesday, February 3, 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. But the real story with foreclosures is different: The fact that a loan is delinquent does not mean foreclosure is sure to follow. Hudson offers mortgages on special terms for borrowers with low and moderate incomes , however, it does not market option ARMs or subprime No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New York Versus Freddie Mac: Round One
On one side is newly-passed state legislation which sets tough standards for subprime and “high cost” loans and on the other is Freddie Mac, which says it won’t buy such loans in the state after September 1st, the day the new law goes into effect. You can guess what happens next: No subprime loans, no high cost loans, no buyers, no sales. 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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Subprime Market Sinking Further Into the Abyss
The latest developments in the subprime lending market should have the entire real estate industry up in arms (figuratively and literally). Now the problem has dug down to the very roots of the lending industry and is shaking loose some of the largest subprime lenders, who are now falling into the abyss. The Orange County Business Journal reported Monday that Wall Street analysts are now predicting The problem has gone far beyond the $1 trillion worth of so-called “exotic” adjustable rate loans resetting in each of the next two years. Borrowers began feeling
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
The subprime mortgage industry is stumbling under a heavy burden of defaults, watching profits dwindle as lenders are forced to buy back loans that have turned sour. Wells Fargo, the biggest originator of subprime loans, according to National Mortgage News , announced this week that they would be cutting 320 jobs in their subprime mortgage division because of tighter lending standards. It’s a downward This bottom-line reality is forcing many lenders to tighten their lending requirements. The tightened lending standards, coupled with stagnant home price appreciation, leaves
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Study Forecasts Rising Subprime Foreclosures
A new study released yesterday by the Center for Responsible Lending projects that one out of five subprime mortgages originated in the past two years will end in foreclosure, costing homeowners as much as $164 billion. “This rate is nearly double the projected rate of subprime loans made in 2002, and it exceeds the worst foreclosure experience in the modern mortgage market, which occurred during the “Oil Patch” disaster of the 1980s. The study, which cites RealtyTrac numbers as one of its sources, looked at subprime foreclosure rates from 1998 through 2006 and closely
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaults Drive Subprime Lending Restraint
Signs of self-imposed restraint on lending guidelines showed up this week in a somewhat surprising corner of the industry: the subprime market. Reuters reported yesterday that Fremont Investment and Loan, the nations fifth-biggest originator of subprime loans last year, was able to lower its early default rate from nearly 6 percent in mid-2006 to 3 percent through measures that included cutting ties with about 8,000 brokers whose loans were identified as contributing to the lender’s high default rate Fremont also cut down on the number of so-called stated income loans, which
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
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 activity on Main Street. 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. Panic is spreading in the U.S. As more lenders go bankrupt and more Americans default on home loans, a jump in foreclosures is expected.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Freddie and Fannie Spurn New York Subprime Loans
Battle lines are being drawn in New York’s real estate market, pitting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae against subprime lenders in New York. Patterson signed into law a subprime lending reform bill (S.8143-A/A.10817-A), creating stringent lending guidelines for subprime lenders. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae — the beleaguered government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) holding billions in Last week, New York Governor David A. Under the new law, investors, including loan buyers like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are held liable for mortgage fraud.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Bernanke: Free Market Can Curb Foreclosures
Bernanke talked extensively about how he believes the Federal Reserve Board should respond to rising foreclosures — specifically in the subprime mortgage market. His conclusion came down in favor of the free market: "Credit market innovations have expanded opportunities for many households. Markets can overshoot, but, ultimately, market forces also work to rein in excesses. In remarks he made yesterday in Chicago, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. For some, the self-correcting pullback may seem too late and too severe.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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For Some, Mortgage Meltdown Means Opportunity
Cracks are appearing in the foundation of the housing market as shock waves — triggered by concern over a surge in bad subprime mortgages — jolted the stock market this week, sending the Dow Jones industrial average downward by more than 243 points, amid fears that a mortgage meltdown in the subprime lending sector could have broader economic implications. As the market for risky mortgages collapses, dragging home values and stock prices down with it, many real estate investors and home buyers are seeing opportunities emerging on the horizon.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True
Organized real estate was begging for it. And the fiasco in the subprime market is wreaking havoc and not making the situation any less stressful either. Bernanke is standing firm to his real world approach for interest rate adjustments. Wednesday Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Open Market Committee agreed unanimously Wall Street was fantasizing about it. Industry analysts are still predicting that it’s going to happen, they just don’t know when.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure's Fallout, 2 Titans Tumble
Every time Wall Street executives and economists think they have acknowledged the full extent of the subprime mortgage meltdown in the residential real estate sector, more bad news is uncovered. Last week, Citigroup’s chief executive Charles Prince tendered his resignation — another casualty of the growing subprime fiasco. Nobody knows how many billions Prior to Prince’s departure, Citigroup said that it would take additional write-downs of $8 billion to $11 billion in the fourth quarter, a large and unexpected loss that could wipe out the period’s entire profit.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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