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No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks
not far from Manhattan, Hudson City Bancorp has a lending philosophy that dates back decades: You can get a dull, boring, mortgage from Hudson at a very low rate — but only if you put equity into the property. Speaking at the start of September, Hermance said his bank had some 80,000 mortgages outstanding. But the real story with foreclosures is different: The 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
Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time
See: "Option ARMs, Its Later Than It Seems," September 2008.) 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 Option ARM Borrowers Running Out Of Time By Peter G.
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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. big chunk of the real estate market will close down. This seems to make 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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Foreclosures Don't Back Down in September
Foreclosure activity in September didn’t back down much from the jump reported in the previous month, RealtyTrac reported today. RealtyTrac’s monthly foreclosure report shows 112,210 properties entering some stage of foreclosure during September, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August but an increase of more than 63 percent from September 2005. September’s foreclosure rate of one new foreclosure filing for every 1,030 households Colorado, Nevada and Michigan posted the highest state foreclosure rates, and California reported the most foreclosure activity of any state in terms of sheer numbers.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Will Homeowners Sink or Swim?
RealtyTrac™ ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, released its September 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 112,210 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a decrease of less than 1 percent from August, and a 63 percent increase from September 2005. The next big wave of news may be a true real-estate slump, as hundreds of billions in Many American homeowners — initially attracted to low teaser rates on those “exotic” ARMs and sub-prime loans — now find themselves swimming upstream in a desperate attempt to remain financially afloat.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Flying Foreclosure Photos in Focus
Individual property photos are now available for almost every foreclosure property listed on RealtyTrac thanks to a wedding of the companys national foreclosure database with Microsoft Virtual Earth technology. Neighborhood-wide Virtual Earth photos have been available on RealtyTrac since September, but the new photos — dubbed "Rooftop Views" — feature zoomed in and cropped images centered on the subject property. The Rooftop Views include up to four photos of each property, taken from multiple directions. Thumbnail versions of the photos are displayed on search results
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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New Illinois Housing Law Draws 2nd Suit
The suits — filed by eight consumers and the real estate community — seek to halt the implementation of Illinois House Bill 4050, which took effect September 1. "It's a discriminatory law," said Julie Santos, a Chicago Realtor and co-chair of the Coalition to Rescind HB 4050, a group formed from several community organizations who are collecting signatures in an attempt to repeal the law. "If quot; The mortgage counseling law is generating a rising chorus of critics — from homeowners, lenders, realtors, investors, consumer rights advocates, title companies
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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MBA Numbers Mirror RealtyTrac Data:
percent from July through September. More than 120,334 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure in November, an increase of 4.1 Please feel free to comment on this article, or write an e-mail to us at: editor@foreclosurepulse.com . Posted 12-14-2006 9:22 AM by Octavion Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trends , MB The number of delinquent mortgage payments and foreclosures jumped in recent months, according to a new survey released today by the Mortgage Bankers Association .
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed Plays a Delicate Balancing Game With Rate Cut
Today’s action, combined with the policy action taken in September, should help forestall some of the adverse effects on the broader economy that might otherwise arise from the disruptions in financial markets and promote moderate growth over time,” the FOMC said in a statement published October 31. The increase in public real estate auctions. In a move aimed at quelling fears of a looming recession, the Federal Open Market Committee took the country’s teetering monetary affairs seriously two weeks ago and lowered the short term federal funds rate another quarter of a percentage point to 4.5
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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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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A 'Dialogue' on the Housing Market
Appearing on a recent episode of “Dialogue with Jim Doti”, RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio cited a number of factors for the more than 60 percent year-to-year increase in foreclosure activity in September 2006. Expectation is a key factor in the movement of the real estate market up or down. Still, owners of million-dollar properties, generally speaking, will Chief among those — local economic conditions, poor planning for the future by home buyers, and rising interest rates. Now the stage is set.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosure Activity Deflating or Just Deferred?
In fact, the RealtyTrac report has shown month-to-month decreases in previous months, even during the dramatic run-up in foreclosure activity that has occurred over the past year and a half: in February 2008, November 2007, September 2007, June 2007, April 2007, and February 2007. Meanwhile, REO (bank repossession) activity actually decreased on a YOY basis in January and February of 2007 but gradually started to gain momentum in the second half of 2007, and increases in REOs have far outpaced the increases in defaults and auctions in all six months of 2008. One could argue that
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Foreclosures Fade in World Series Spotlight
Detroit’s Wayne County reported 4,190 properties entering foreclosure in September, the second most only behind Chicago’s Cook County (whose fans didn’t have any team to cheer in the playoffs this year). If that happens, foreclosure investors willing to take a chance on the city now may be amply rewarded in the not-so-distant future. Posted 10-25-2006 10:30 AM by darenb Filed under: Foreclosure Trends , Real Estate Trend The Detroit Tigers are the feel-good story of this year’s World Series, having made it to baseball’s big dance only three years after posting 119 losses — one of the worst records in history.
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- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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