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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac takeover

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Last week Barons as well as The New York Times reported that the 2 GSEs were under considerable pressure to bring in additional capital. In ...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Subprime portfolio by year of issue

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In the following chart we see the percentage of subprime portfolio issue in the last few years. As can be seen from the chart, the maxmimum ...
Monday, July 7, 2008

CIT Group selling home lending business

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Recently CIT Group announced that it is selling its manufactured housing division as well as home lending business. The home lending busines...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System Expanding

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From July 1st, 2008 when another 6 states start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System, the NMLS will be in use in total by 14 state...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Increase in annual home foreclosures

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According to a report by RealtyTrac, home foreclosures have grown by seven percent in May & have increased by forty eight percent annual...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Operation Malicious Mortgage

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The DOJ & FBI in a press conference have announced that they have arrested more than 400 real estate industry persons for incidences of ...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Good credit score and mortgage savings

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In the following figure we see how much can be saved in mortgage payments if we have good credit score. The last column reflects the amount ...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Reward credit cards

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Many people wonder about what reward credit cards are, so in this article we will look at some important facts about such cards. Use your cr...
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Mortgage delinquency rate at 29 year high

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According to National Delinquency Survey by MBA, mortgage delinquency has jumped fifty three basis points in the 1st quarter of this year to...

Credit rating agencies to change core business practices

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As per a press release from New York Times, 3 of country's largest credit rating firms, Moody's Investors Service, Fitch Ratings and...
Sunday, June 1, 2008

Mortgage debt growth

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The following chart shows the total mortgage debt that is outstanding & the steep rise in the outstanding balance we have seen in the la...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

Hurricane coverage may fall victim to mortgage crisis and credit crunch

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Mortgage crisis has created concerns which can impact houseowners. A.M. Best Company, a credit rating organization working for financial ind...
Friday, May 30, 2008

Acquisition of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan

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Federal Reserve Bank of NY has announced that it is going to complete the financing of Bear Stearns's acquisition by JP Morgan by the en...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Monthly savings & low APR credit cards

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Before taking a mortgage borrowers have to evaluate how much loan they are capable of taking considering the fact that they also have other ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Mortgage recovery would be aided by stronger banking regulations

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Fed Governor Randall Kroszner has commented that slowly the mortgage market will recover & the main key factor to the recovery will be b...
Saturday, May 24, 2008

New Fannie Mae Program to help underwater borrowers

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This program is for borrowers who owe more on the mortgage loan than its underlying security (the home) is presently worth. Under this progr...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act

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Federal Housing Administration's bill, H.R. 5830 named as FHA Housing and Homeowner Retention Act was passed by House Financial Services...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

New rules for lenders proposed by FTC and FED

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Federal Trade Commission & Federal Reserve have proposed new rules under which lenders would be required to inform borrowers about chang...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Home improvement loans

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Some great deals are available on home improvement loans these days and the money you receive can be used for countless home improvements. ...

ARM loan reset schedule

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The following graph shows the different type of ARM loans (both securitized as well as non-securitized) due to reset in the coming one year....
Sunday, May 4, 2008

Prevent more foreclosures

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For prevention of more homes going into foreclosure, Randall Kroszner, Fed Governor has said that lenders need to lower interest rates on mo...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Can a credit card affect your mortgage approval?

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There is no doubt that mortgage market is very unstable right now & lenders are very strict on whom they approve for a mortgage. If you ...
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