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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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How To Profit In Today's Real Estate Marketplace
The financial headlines during much of the past two years have been largely negative, but we sometimes look past a basic reality: Opportunities for real estate profits are still out ther
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- Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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How To Profit In Today's Real Estate Marketplace
The financial headlines during much of the past two years have been largely negative, but we sometimes look past a basic reality: Opportunities for real estate profits are still out ther
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- Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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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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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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Motor City Tops MSA Foreclosure List in Q3
This trend corresponds to what RealtyTrac is seeing in the national real estate market where sales volume is slowing down — heading negative in many areas of the country — price appreciation has slowed to either single-digit rates or even negative rates in a few instances, and interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages are starting to reset to higher levels. Detroit Foreclosure Rate Heat Map -- October 2006 Posted 11-15-2006 12:30 PM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Tr
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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. This will strongly effect the state’s real estate sector, leaving a window of opportunity open for investors to come in and buy up local real estate at bargain prices compared to the overly inflated prices of the past few years. Posted 06-04-2008 3:00 PM by joelc Filed under: Foreclosure Trends ,
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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 2008, with
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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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