Posts Tagged ‘foreclosure stop’

St Louis Home Mortgage: Foreclosures May Be Slowing

Saturday, May 7th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Home Loan News: Foreclosures Slow, But…
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According to a report released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTC), foreclosures slowed in the fourth quarter 2010.

However, as far as long-term outlooks, it has only been a brief reprieve since banks will move more aggressively back into the foreclosure process following a (more…)

Principal Loan Reduction: Housing Programs Hurt Economy

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Loan Reduction News: Greenspan Says Stimulus and Housing Programs Hurt Recovery
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in February that massive government intervention to save the economy is to blame for the lagging recovery.

Greenspan argued for less government intervention to get the recovery rolling and businesses (more…)

St Louis Refinancing Loan: Foreclosures And Short Sales Push Market

Monday, May 2nd, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Reduction News: 26 Percent Of Home Sales Are Foreclosures And Short Sales
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According to a RealtyTrac report released yesterday, 26 percent of all homes sold last year were foreclosures and short sales.

Homes already foreclosed on and repossessed by banks, called REOs (real estate owned), sold for an average of 36 percent less than normal sales, RealtyTrac reported.

Meanwhile, the discount for homes sold while they were still in the foreclosure process (short sales) was 15 percent as followed by the St Louis Refinancing Group news team.

“It’s like the post-holiday sales at (more…)

St Louis Home Mortgage: Foreclosures Spreading

Monday, April 18th, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Loan News: Foreclosures Spread
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According to a report released early in 2011 by RealtyTrac, one out of every 9 homes in Las Vegas, Nevada received some kind of default notice in 2010.

But there seems to be a silver lining: The foreclosure rate is actually dropping in Vegas which was down 7 percent compared to the end of 2009 according to the  St Louis Refinancing Group news team.

In fact, rates fell in all top 10 foreclosure markets of 2010. In second highest foreclosure market, (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Company: Judges Scold Lawyers

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Reduction News: Judges Berate Lawyers Due To Foreclosure Crisis
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Federal judges are looking ever more critically at home foreclosures.

They are accusing lawyers of processing shoddy or even fabricated paperwork in foreclosure actions when representing the banks according to a St Louis mortgage company report.

Judge Arthur M. Schack of New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn has taken aim at an (more…)

St Louis Home Loans: Strategic Default Risk Increases

Friday, April 8th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Reduction News: Strategic Default Risk May Increase
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The 2011 housing market started off to a bleak pace.

Home prices were expected to drop another 20 percent before hitting bottom, according to economists at A. Gary Shilling & Company, raising the risk that approximately 39.7 percent of borrowers will simply walk away from their home in a strategic default.

The firm reported in its December Investment Insight that home prices are already 29 percent below their peak in the first quarter of 2006 and fell 2 percent between (more…)

St Louis Refinance: HAMP Just Another Failure

Thursday, March 31st, 2011


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St Louis Lending and Loan Audit News: HAMP Is A Single Failure According To Institutional Experts
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Since mid-December of 2010, the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) had processed approximately 520,000 permanent loan modifications.

The panel estimated that by the time the program is finished, it will have prevented only 700,000 foreclosures over all which is quite a contrast to the three million to (more…)

Principal Loan Reduction: Law To Protect Backfires On Homeowners

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Lending and In-House Financing News: California Loan Modification Law Backfires On Homeowners While Helping Banks
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It seems there is no stop to how banks have surprisingly prospered monetarily through this horrible mortgage crisis.

Let’s start with the exorbitant bailouts they received and kept and move forward to the blind assistance of the new idiotic law in place in California.

Sad to say, more and more lawyers throughout California say they have no choice but to reject clients looking for representation in mortgage loan modification cases because (more…)

Loan Reduction: Foreclosures Down Due to Robo-Signing

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Loan Audit News: Ironically, Robo-Signing Seems To Be Driving Foreclosures Down A Bit
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The number of consumers who have actually lost their homes to bank repossessions dropped even more steeply to 67,428.

That was off a whopping 28 percent from 93,236 in October 2010.

Repossessions are down approximately a third since September 2010.

The drop in total filings, which include notices of default, scheduled auctions and repossessions, followed a 4 percent decline a month earlier.

RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio attributed the downtrend to fallout from the recent robo-signing controversy.

The robo-signing moratoriums were (more…)

St Louis Home Loans: Home Values Down

Saturday, March 26th, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Loan Reduction News: Home Values Fall $9 Trillion Since 2006
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The U.S. housing market has taken a hard hit value wise. American homes were worth about $1.7 trillion less in 2010 than they were worth in 2009, according to a report released by real estate website Zillow.

Last year’s drop in home values is 63 percent larger than the $1 trillion dip in 2009, and brings the total (more…)