Posts Tagged ‘FHA’

St Louis Mortgage Lending and In House Financing: New Foreclosure Plan

Monday, January 9th, 2012


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Financing For Customers News: New Foreclosure Plan Means Selling Off


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Big investors are showing interest in an evolving Obama administration plan to sell off foreclosed homes, although the government will have to make the offer sweet enough to coax private funds.

The White House is assessing how best to (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Finance: Mortgage Servicing Changes

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


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St. Louis Mortgage Refinance and In-House Financing News: Olick Reports Changes to Mortgage Servicing Coming


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Robo-signing, lost paperwork and wrongful evictions have put mortgage servicers under the gun. Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson on Tuesday blamed servicers, in part, for stalling a housing recovery: ‘Homes that should move through the foreclosure process are held up because courts and (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Lending and Customer Financing: No New Bailouts

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011


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St. Louis Refinancing Loan and In-House Financing News: Olick Reports No New Federal Bailout

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With home prices still falling, new mortgage delinquencies rising again, millions of mortgages already in the foreclosure pipeline, and consumer confidence in the housing market near nil, President Obama is expected to include some new housing fix (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Lending and Consumer Finance: Short Sale Incentives

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011


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St. Louis Home Loans and In-House Financing News: Short Sale Incentives
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Bank of America is testing Florida’s foreclosure waters with an incentive program for defaulting homeowners to “short sell” their homes instead of enduring a foreclosure, which (more…)

St Louis Home Mortgage and Loan: Mortgage Lending Hard To Get

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Lending News: Mortgages Are Cheap… If You Can Get One
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According to the Federal Reserve, nearly a quarter of people who apply for home loans are turned down. The denial rates tell only half the story.

Many potential buyers aren’t even applying for loans because they assume they can’t get one according to St Louis loan experts. 

That shows up in credit scores for loans financed with backing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The average credit score has risen to (more…)

St Louis Finance and Loan: Foreclosures Up Delinquencies Down

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Principal Loan Reduction News: MBA Said Foreclosures Up Delinquencies Down
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The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.22 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010.

This was a decrease of 91 basis points from the third quarter of 2010, and a decrease of 125 basis points from one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.

The non-seasonally adjusted delinquency rate decreased 46 basis points to 8.93 percent this quarter from 9.39 percent last quarter as seen by St Louis finance and loan experts.

The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started during the fourth quarter was (more…)

St Louis Home Loan: Fannie and Freddie Out

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Loan News: Fannie and Freddie Recommended To Be Phased Out
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There are new reports coming from the White House stating that the Obama administration has issued a White Paper strongly recommending the gradual elimination of government-sponsored mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac according to St Louis mortgage brokers.

It has included three different options for reducing the role the U.S. government plays in the (more…)

St Louis Refinancing Loan: Another Housing Crash Cometh

Saturday, April 16th, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Mortgage Refinancing News: The Housing Crash Part II
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Many experts are saying the best evidence that we’re headed for a double-dip recession in housing is the quality of the mortgages during the recent period in which the housing market seemed to improve in many areas.

In the Freddie Mac review of Citigroup’s performing loans, the portion rated as “Not Acceptable Quality” was as high as 32 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

While this has obvious implications for (more…)

St Louis Lending: Economy Hurting By Tight Credit Rules

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Loan Reduction News: Tightening Credit May Stall Housing In 2011
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Both mortgage professionals and leading economists are worried that the housing sector may be heading into another downdraft as mortgage lenders continue to tighten already restrictive lending standards.

Such a scenario seemed less likely earlier in 2010, when home-buyer tax credits helped (more…)

St Louis Mortgage: FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund Low

Saturday, December 4th, 2010


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St Louis Finance News: FHA Falls Way Below Statutory Minimums
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The Government Accountability Office said economic and market conditions led to declines in the Federal Housing Administration’s mutual mortgage insurance fund “to a level below the statutory minimum” of 2 percent.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Mathew Scire, director of (more…)