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St Louis Home Mortgage and Loan Reduction: Banks Want Probe Gone

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Rates and Customer Financing News: Banks Offer $5 Billion To Close Foreclosure Probe
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The nation’s biggest banks are willing to pay as much as $5 billion to settle claims by federal and state officials of improper mortgage-servicing practices, according to people familiar with the situation. 

The offer is considerably less than the amounts sought by state and federal officials, some of whom are (more…)

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St Louis Loan Modification and Refinance: Record Number of REOs Sold

Monday, May 30th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Lending News: Freddie Mac Sells Record Number of REOs
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Freddie Mac sold roughly 31,000 previously foreclosed and repossessed homes in the first quarter, a new record for the company as both government-sponsored enterprises shed inventory from the end of last year. 

Combined, both Fannie Mae and Freddie hold 218,000 REO properties as of the end of the (more…)

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St Louis Home Loan and Financing: Fannie Mae Faces More Losses

Sunday, May 29th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and In-House Financing News: Fannie Mae Declares First Quarter Loss
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Fannie Mae reported net loss of $8.7 billion in the first quarter, including a $2.2 billion dividend payment to the Treasury Department.

The loss narrowed from (more…)

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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Lending: Home Sales Up But Prices Down

Saturday, May 28th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Commercial Mortgage News: NAR Reports Existing Home Sales Up But Prices Down
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Existing home sales continued to recover in the first quarter with gains recorded in 49 states and the District of Columbia, while 22 percent of the available metropolitan areas saw prices rise from a year ago, according to the latest survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). 

Total state existing-home sales, including single-family and condo, rose 8.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.14 million in the first quarter from (more…)

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St Louis Refinancing and Loan: Home Values Falling

Friday, May 27th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Lending News: Home Values Fall Again
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Real estate data firm Zillow said its home value index fell 3 percent in the first three months of the year from the previous quarter, and was down (more…)

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St Louis Home Mortgage Lending: Underwater Means Drowning In Debt

Thursday, May 26th, 2011


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St Louis Loan, Mortgage Refinancing and Consumer Lending News: Drowning In Negative Equity
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If you have no desire or need to sell your home, then falling home prices are just on paper and likely temporary, right? Depends on how you look at it. 

Falling home prices put more borrowers in a negative equity position, that is owing more on their mortgage(s) than their homes are worth.

We call that ‘underwater,’ and for good reason, because for some borrowers that sense of drowning (more…)

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Loan: Hard Line In Debt

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011


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St Louis Home Loan and Consumer Lending News: Boehner Takes A Hard Line On Debt
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House Speaker John Boehner recently indicated that he plans to hold a hard line in debt-ceiling negotiations. Among his demands: Spending cuts in exchange for support to raise the debt ceiling and the cuts will (more…)

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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Reduction: Housing Storm Mending

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011


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St Louis Home Loan and Customer Financing News: A Silver Lining To The Housing Storm – By Brett Arends
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Prices in many areas are now cheap. They have corrected a long way since the bubble began to burst five years ago. Of course, it depends on where you are.

I’m still skeptical of the real-estate markets that have held up best — prime stuff like Manhattan, San Francisco or Beverly Hills. It’s hard to get a deal there. But in the (more…)

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St Louis Mortgage and Home Loan: Consumer Debt Increases

Monday, May 23rd, 2011


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St Louis Refinancing and Customer Financing News: Mortgages Up While Borrowing Up
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According to a report from the New York Federal Reserve which looks at mortgages, home equity lines, credit cards and auto loans by consumers nationwide, went on to conclude that total consumer debt increased slightly in the first quarter of 2011, ending a string of nine consecutive declining quarters. 

In addition, banks are becoming more (more…)

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St Louis Commercial Mortgage Loan Modification: Businesses Worried

Saturday, May 21st, 2011


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St Louis Commercial Loans and Consumer Lending News: Small Businesses Still Pessimistic
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Recent reports say that small-business owner pessimism worsened in April for a second consecutive month, even though current sales performance was the best in 40 months.

The National Federation of Independent Business‘s (NFIB) small-business optimism index dropped (more…)

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