4 Articles match "Reform","Standards","Washington"

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• 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? The result is that the company has small expenses and few bad loans so it costs Hudson about 20 cents to create an additional dollar of revenue versus the industry standard of roughly 61 cents. No Mortgage Meltdown For These Banks By Peter G. Miller     The news from Wall Street in recent weeks has not
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Getting Help to Stop Foreclosure, Avoid Home Foreclosure Process - RealtyTrac
  
  Schumer (D-NY) chaired the Joint Economic Committee in Washington, DC, on the topic, "Sheltering Neighborhoods from the Subprime Foreclosure Storm." Its suggestions: increase federal support for local foreclosure prevention programs; strengthen and reform the FHA; strengthen regulation of mortgage origination at the federal level; create a federal anti-predatory lending law that bans unfair and deceptive practices; establish borrowers ability to pay standards; and disclosure relating to alternative mortgage products must be enhanced. Denvers Foreclosure Task Force recently
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• Can "Appreciation Sharing" Solve The Mortgage Mess?
  
  The hook is this: Under the FHA reform measure borrowers and lenders who take advantage of the HOPE for Homeowners program will face stiff fees and big costs. But for those with toxic loans, a high-cost mortgage with sane terms is better than foreclosure, bankruptcy and having your stuff sitting on the curb. Equity Sharing During the past few months there has been a huge debate in Washington regarding how to assist those with toxic loans, assuming they should get any assistance at all. Can “Appreciation Sharing” Solve The Mortgage Mess? By Peter G. Miller
  www.realtytrac.com - Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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• As Foreclosures Mount, Candidates React to the Credit Crisis
  
  Here’s what the major presidential candidates have to say about the growing foreclosure epidemic: Democrats The three main Democratic presidential candidates — Clinton, Obama and Edwards —have made various proposals for modest reform, including setting up a federal fund to help homeowners fend off foreclosure and providing borrowers with counseling, along with laws to ban predatory lending policies. Edwards also wants to ban certain fees, establish uniform broker licensing standards and start a national database for disciplinary infractions. With mortgage foreclosures at historic highs, Democrats and Republicans are fighting over a political issue that could have major implications in the 2008 presidential campaign.
  www.foreclosurepulse.com - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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