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President George W. Bush latest reforms for the mortgage industry are providing only scarce help to those forced to borrow at sub prime rates. Alarming proportion of such population is facing a looming threat of foreclosure due to the adjustment of mortgage sector. Especially hard hit is the developing metro [...]
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Although lenders deny it, there is plenty of evidence that in many cases, they inflated the incomes of applicants so that they could qualify for no-proof or “No-Doc” sub prime mortgages. And there is no doubt whatsoever that this was one factor that contributed heavily to our current mortgage foreclosure crisis and housing slump. For [...]
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Not unexpectedly, the latest figures from RealtyTrac, the Irvine, California-based clearing house for foreclosure data, demonstrate that October foreclosure filings continued their rise as hundreds of thousands of American homeowners struggled with unaffordable monthly payments. RealtyTrac said the increase in foreclosures was 2% in October, representing nearly 225,000 new filings, a 94% increase over [...]
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The main topic of conversation at Vixxen Hair Salon, located on Belair Road, Baltimore, has always been money but Ajanta Booker, the owner, says that since last August its been money and foreclosure.
A community of brick row houses, the Belair-Edison neighborhood, has recently been bought, for the most part, by [...]
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They’re saying that any sub prime bailout for lenders and homeowners may be a “moral hazard” and “risky business.” Yes! There are many who don’t think the government, be it federal or state, should get involved in solving the current crisis. Critics call it a moral hazard based on the opinion that if [...]
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There’s an old adage that says that you can’t please all of the people all of the time. That seems to apply to prospective homeowners who have called the new government-brokered plan like a “slap in the face” because they say they will have to delay home ownership because the new plan will keep [...]
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The Chairman of the California State Assembly Banking and Finance Committee has said that he believes that President Bush’s plan to freeze adjustable rate sub prime loans falls far short of what is needed to deal with the current crisis. The Chair, Mr. Ted Lieu, points out that the Bush plan has been “whittled down” [...]
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The foreclosure crisis continues unabated sending new ripples through our economy with every group of new ARM interest rate resets, defaults and foreclosures. However, many feel that the full effects of this huge market correction are yet to be fully seen. We all know, however, that it all started with the sub prime lending meltdown [...]
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The worst case scenario resulting from the current subprime mortgage crisis is anybody’s guess right now, but many government and industry experts say it could be very, very bad. One chief investment officer of the world’s largest bond fund recently stated that, “its effect on consumption, its effect on future lending attitudes, could bring [...]
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The current housing meltdown brought on by the foreclosure debacle has begun to spill over from poor and low-income areas to higher-priced middle class neighborhoods as well. Some neighborhoods which are suburbs of major US metropolitan areas have seen foreclosure rates soaring as high as 60-percent, with 45-percent areas becoming quite common.
Since middle-class families [...]
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles) has urged the Governor and the legislature to immediately deal with the ever-increasing sub prime mortgage foreclosure crisis. He also joined with Democratic legislators to propose a series of new consumer protective measures. Nationally, there are five out of the top-ten foreclosure areas in California cities including [...]
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has stated that losses from the U.S. sub prime mortgage foreclosures along with falling home prices and slowing economic expansion, could reach as high as $300-billion. As of right now, stock markets worldwide have lost $2.9-trillion since October 31st while the collapse of the sub prime markets has caused around $50-billion in write-downs from the world’s largest banks. The American dollar, which has also declined against
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Senator Hillary Clinton wants more than just the Presidency. She also proposed a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures last Monday so that troubled homeowners have additional time to try and work out their difficulties with their lenders. Senator Clinton outlined her proposal to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who [...]
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The Hope Now alliance, which is a partnership between non-profit housing counselors and mortgage companies backed by the White House, was created specifically to ward off a rising wave of mortgage foreclosures. Next week, 300,000 letters from the Hope Alliance will be posted to homeowners who may be having difficulty meeting their monthly mortgage payments. [...]
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The sub prime mortgage crisis was born in a decade-long housing boom fueled by low interest rates and excess liquidity. During these ‘boom’ years, mortgage brokers enticed by the lure of big commissions, talked buyers with poor credit into accepting housing mortgages with little or no down payment and without proper tax documentation and [...]
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Now that the continuing sub prime mortgage foreclosure has brought the national economy closer to recession, it’s clearly time for less talk and more action on the part of our government. The effects are being felt everywhere. On Wall Street, where the market has been a volatile roller coaster ride; on Main Street, where [...]
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