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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
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 Step right
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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. In effect, waiving prepayment penalties that may not be collected is far better than losing homes to foreclosures and short sales. Negative Amortization Wachovia is also trying to make the best of a bad situation in another way: If it can get option ARMs refinanced it may be able to capture some of the “negative amortization”
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
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- Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Going Against the Grain, Investor Finds Bountiful Bank-Owned Bargains
Despite the abundance of negative buzz surrounding the real estate market, Kirk Leipzig decided to pursue foreclosures as investment propertie
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- Wednesday, April 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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California Consumers Hit the Skids
The report cites concerns about the housing market, gasoline prices, the job market and the volatility of the stock market as key to the negativity among consumers about present and future economic conditions. These concerns are genuinely justified in California, the state which has led the nation in total properties with foreclosure filings for 19 out of the last 20 months, according to RealtyTrac . Analysts at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.,
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. Consumers' assessment of present-day conditions continues to grow more negative and suggests the economy remains stuck in low gear. 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 to fall in April
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Defaulting on the American Dream: A Troubling Trend
properties entered some stage of foreclosure, up from 850,000 properties in 2005, according to RealtyTrac research . 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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Avoid Foreclosure Before it Starts at RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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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. ldquo;The steep downturn in residential real estate continues,” said David M. Most of the nation appears to remain on a downward path, with 19 of the 20 metro areas reporting annual declines, and six of those now at negative rates exceeding -20%.” 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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8 Ways to Dodge Delinquency and Stopping Foreclosure - RealtyTrac
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Foreclosures Won't Break the Market Next Year
The ups and downs of every economic cycle have always been directly impacted by the health of the real estate sector. 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 originated between
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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