Posts Tagged ‘negative equity’

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…)

St Louis Home Mortgage Lending: Will House Prices Continue To Fall

Saturday, April 30th, 2011


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St Louis Finance Loan and Mortgage Refinancing News: House Prices To Keep Falling?
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877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia, Commercial Lending and Loan Reduction Consultant


It seems that according to the Capital Economics, the second leg of the United States housing downturn will continue throughout the year and could be nasty if a vicious circle of falling house prices and rising foreclosures continues.

“The second downward leg in house prices that began last year will continue throughout (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Broker: HAMP Still Struggling

Monday, April 11th, 2011


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St Louis Finance and Mortgage Refinancing News: HAMP Found Lacking, Again
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877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia, Commercial Lending and Loan Modification Consultant

Approximately twelve months ago, the Congressional Oversight Panel found the program HAMP to be struggling to get off the ground despite having been in action for nearly a year and a half.

The latest evaluation of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) came out and the result was the same deal.  HAMP has undergone several  tweaks since April 2010.

But the Congressional Oversight Panel, created to issue periodic reports on the TARP bailout program, found little improvement in performance according to a St Louis mortgage broker.

Instead of helping 3 million to (more…)

St Louis Finance: Mortgage Market Looming Defaults

Sunday, April 10th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage and Loan Reduction News: Mortgage Market Underestimating Future Defaults?
St Louis Home Mortgage and Commercial Loans | Principal Reduction Program |
877-334-0210 or 314-334-0210 | Floyd Tapia, Commercial Lending and Loan Compliance Advocate


Amherst Securities Group said the market is not taking into consideration the high likelihood of potential defaults on performing or re-performing mortgages when estimating future losses on these delinquent loans.

Mortgage-backed securities analysts at the fixed income dealer took a look at $1.3 trillion in outstanding non-agency mortgages from a year ago to see how they’re doing as of November 2010 according to St Louis mortgage lending sources.

They found that the $485 Billion (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…)

St Louis Foreclosures Rose In 3rd Quarter of 2010

Saturday, February 5th, 2011


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St Louis Principal Reduction and In-House Financing News: Foreclosures Climbed Higher In The Third Quarter of 2010
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Foreclosure filings increased from last year in 133 of 206 metropolitan statistical areas tracked in the third quarter, or 65 percent, according to RealtyTrac.

The Seattle area had the highest increase. There, foreclosure filings, which include notices of default, pending cases, notices of foreclosure sale and repossessions, increased (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Analysts Say 20 Percent of Home Mortgage Owners Underwater

Thursday, August 26th, 2010


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St Louis Finance News: With 20 Percent of Home Loan Owners Underwater, Will Obama Cancel These Debts?
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The national statistic for mortgage owners owing more than their house is worth is approaching 20 percent according to the real estate experts Zillow.com.

Although the overall number has (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Report Predicts 20 Million Home Loans Underwater By 2012

Monday, August 23rd, 2010


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St Louis Finance News: Economists Say Almost 20 Million Underwater Mortgages By 2012
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There was recent talks by the Deutsche Bank saying more than 14 million borrowers were underwater as far as home values were concerned as of the (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Brokers Watch As Foreclosures and Repossessions Rise

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010


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News: Repossessions Rising As Foreclosures Soar

With foreclosures hitting an record highs in April 2010, delinquency data shows late mortgage payments (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Owners Facing Foreclosure Can Now Rent Although Some Just Walk Away

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010


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News: If You Cannot Pay Your Home Mortgage, Why Not Rent… But Don’t Walk Away

There may be a light at the middle of the tunnel of this foreclosure epidemic. Homeowners who are currently facing foreclosure could now get the support through a (more…)