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Don't Dump Investors
The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Government Goes After Loan Officers
That said, whats plain is that the SEC has opened a new front in the mortgage responsibility debate. Interstate Commerce At first it may seem odd that mortgages are a federal matter since loans are secured by real estate and nothing is more local than dirt. But both real estate and mortgages have been considered within the stream of interstate commerce for decades. The Government Goes After Loan Officers By Peter G. Miller One of the most galling aspects of the mortgage meltdown is the sense that folks who
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
number of lenders have maintained traditional underwriting standards and mortgage offerings. They thought long-term instead of quarterly; made sure their underwriting standards made sense and now show profits.” Which lenders? Hermance explains that company incentives are related to credit quality and not stock prices. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not been good, especially in the world of mortgages.
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Lending Standards Continue to Tighten
branches and agencies of foreign banks, found that 75 percent of those banks had tightened lending standards for prime loans since the previous survey, in April. Standards were tightened even more for “nontraditional” loans — 85 percent of banks that originate that type of loan said they had tightened standards on those loans. And six out of seven banks that originate subprime loans said they The results of a new survey released today by the Federal Reserve confirms what many people looking to buy or refinance already know — it’s hard to get approved for a loan.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Prices Fall Deeper Into the Abyss
Homeowners across the country may be feeling a bit like Mel Brooks’ character from his movie “High Anxiety” now that Standard and Poor’s has released its May numbers for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices . Home prices in its original composite 10 metro areas fell to a new record low, down 16.9 In the movie, Brooks’ character nervously sweats every time he even thinks about getting into an elevator. Well, the nation’s homeowners are sweating it out now, being taken on the descending elevator ride of their lives, especially those
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Home Price Indices Reporting Record Lows
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 percent for the quarter, the largest quarterly price decline on record, based solely on purchase-only transactions (without refinancings). On a year-over-year basis the OFHEO reports that prices fell 3.1 percent between Q1 2007 and Q1 2008 to the lowest level seen in the 17-year history of
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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As Home Prices Plummet, When Will You Buy?
Home prices in 20 of the nation's major metro areas in July were collectively down 16.3 percent from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today. Prices in those metro areas were down 19.5 Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at percent from their peak in July 2006. "There quot;There are signs of a slow down in the rate of decline across the metro areas, but no evidence of a bottom," said David M.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
The investor double-standard is hardly hidden. It appears everywhere and is never challenged, as if real estate investors are somehow disposable players in the foreclosure mess. However, none of these efforts are a silver bullet that will undo the excesses of the past years, nor are they designed to bail out real estate speculators or those who committed fraud during the mortgage process. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes to bailing out giant banks, huge companies and massive stock brokerages
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- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Subprime meltdown means jump in foreclosures
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. reported big losses from loan defaults due to sagging home prices and higher interest rates. 27, as Freddie Mac, one of Panic is spreading in the U.S. 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.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Stumbling Subprimes Spell Opportunity
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. The tightened lending standards, coupled with stagnant home price appreciation, leaves many homeowners in default unable to refinance their way out of foreclosure. 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. This bottom-line reality
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Economic Indicators: Image Is Everything
When it comes to purchasing real estate — either as a primary residence or as an investment — perception is everything. So it is with real estate. Four real estate industry related reports have already been released this week, and Wall Street has reacted. When reports of telltale economic indicators are released, if Wall Street perceives them as bad, the market takes an immediate tumble. But when the indicators reported come is as expected, the reaction is generally good and we see an uptick in market activity.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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What's Causing the Credit Crunch?
Meanwhile, nervous lenders have responded by tightening their lending standards, making it more difficult and expensive for real estate investors and homeowners to borrow money, according to new survey conducted by the Federal Reserve in July. Between 2000 and 2006, defaults remained low because home prices were rising, interest rates were at historic lows and borrowers who fell behind on payments were able to simply refinance their mortgages — or sell their home for a profit. A lively debate is ensuing as to why the mortgage industry is unraveling and who’s to blame for the growing credit crunch that is sabotaging the housing industry.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fannie Mae Toughens Foreclosure Guidelines
The dramatic shifts in market dynamics over the past several months have prompted us to continually review the full spectrum of our risk appetite, eligibility requirements, automated underwriting risk assessment, and pricing. Even in standard situations, without a foreclosure to consider in the mix, the minimum credit score required is now 580 . There are only three It was bound to happen. With government officials at the local, state and federal levels clamoring to clamp down on the nation’s financial institutions and other loan originators, plus the recent bailout of Bear Stearns by
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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