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The Government Goes After Loan Officers
Now the immunity enjoyed by lenders may be at an end. new and surprising player is looking at failed mortgages, and looking in a way which may suggest that many loan officers will have to pay up. 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.” The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
Lastly, we have the real attraction of option ARMs, the option payment itself, a payment which is insufficient to even pay off the monthly interest cost. Because Fitch says that a 40-year loan term represented 4 percent of all option ARMs in 2004 -- but 38 percent by 2007. A loan with four payment options may seem fairly understandable, but in the real world a lot of borrowers did not take out option ARMs because they wanted to make fully-amortizing payments. Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G. Miller
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wachovia Changes The Lending Game
Additionally, for all new loan originations, Wachovia is discontinuing offering products that include payment options resulting in negative amortization.” “This is one of the most-enlightened decisions by a major lender in the past 18 months,” says James J. If that happens, the Wachovia plan may well be responsible for saving tens of thousands of families from foreclosure.” Washington On Capitol Hill, both the House and the Senate have passed measures that would allow the FHA to insure up to $300 billion in special mortgages for those facing foreclosure. Wachovia Changes The Lending Game By Peter G.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Negative Savings Rate Portends More Defaults
The Personal Income and Outlays report pegged the countrys personal savings rate at negative 1 percent in 2006, lower than the negative 0.4 Not since the Great Depression has the personal savings rate registered in negative territory for two consecutive years, according to an Associated Press article on the report. While this negative savings rate may be helping to sustain the country’s growing economy in the short A Commerce Department report released last week confirmed that Americans are continuing to spend more than they make, setting the stage for more increases in foreclosure activity in 2007.
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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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Immediate Relief Nowhere to Be Found
came out with negative reports this month, supporting the notion that the nation’s inventory of available properties — particularly the supply of properties in foreclosure — will remain elevated for at least the immediate future. Also on Tuesday, The Conference Board released its monthly Consumer Confidence Index report, showing an almost eight point decline between its May measurement (58.1) Three top indices of economic health in the U.S. According to its latest report released Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s said home prices across the nation continued
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
quot;As more and more of these loans re-set this year, we may see a rise in foreclosure filings," said James J. It’s true that foreclosures could have a negative impact on the housing market if they continue to increase at this rate.” Read the full report . Posted 01-29-2007 4:17 PM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures: Chicken or Egg?
Michael Carney, Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Cal Poly University in Pomona, Calif., and Director of the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California . That slowing of demand had a domino effect, causing home sales to slow and home price appreciation to flatten and even go negative in the first quarter of 2007, according to Carney’s research. It’s a classic chicken-and-egg question: are foreclosures a cause or a symptom of the slumping housing market? One Southern California economist believes they’re clearly a symptom. “I
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
Million Foreclosures
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
Borrowers may have the option of renegotiating their loan with the lender. Consult with a real estate attorney or an experienced real estate broker because reinstatement laws vary from state to state. Option #3: Forbearance One of the most overlooked foreclosure options a borrower has is forbearance. Depending on your lender, you may be able to restructure your loan. Check out our NEW Features! Login Why Join? FREE Trial Feedback Help
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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ARM'd and Dangerous?
Jonathans question reflects a popular bias these days towardsdirectly linking the rising foreclosure rates to default rates onsome of the higher risk loans that have become increasingly popular -ARMs, interest only, negative amortization, etc. But our fascination with these loans and their impact on foreclosurerates may have had something of a blurring effect on how clearly weview the overall foreclosure market. Another nice post from Jonathan Miller on his Matrix blog, "Foreclose Already So We Can Get Back To Normal" ( http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=568 p=568
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
ldquo;These substantial home price declines bring positive and negative news,” said OFHEO Director James B. To prospective home buyers who have been shut out of homeownership because of affordability constraints, these declines may be welcome news, as are continued low mortgage rates.” ldquo;The steep downturn in residential real estate continues,” said David M. Home prices on existing single-family homes continued to sink further into the abyss nationally during the first quarter of 2008, according to two leading industry indicators. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) reported last week that prices fell 1.7
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators Support Slow Gain in Foreclosures
And based on the latest available national economic data, indications for the remainder of 2006 through 2007 are consistent with RealtyTrac’s May 2006 U.S. The key factor of concern to real estate investors, first-time homebuyers and agents looking to get into the foreclosure business is interest rates. Esmael Adibi, executive director of the Anderson Center, the people who are going to be hurt the most by these Economics 101 – Interest Rates Now that we are hovering at the mid-year point, economists are starting to review their projections for this year. Foreclosure Market
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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