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March 25, 2010 U.S. Plans Big Expansion in Effort to Aid Homeowners By DAVID STREITFELD The Obama administration on Friday will announce broad new initiatives to help troubled homeowners, potentially refinancing several million of them into fresh government-backed mortgages with lower payments. Another element of the new program is meant to temporarily reduce the payments […]
To start the program, Treasury will ask banks, like Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase, to identify pools of residential and commercial real estate loans that they will be willing to sell through an auction. Private investors will bid against each other, setting a market price. No bank will be required to participate. Editor’s Note: it’s starting. […]
Editor’s Note: Principal reduction can be achieved in more ways than one. Here Non-profit Lenders see the clear opportunity to buy mortgages from dubious sources and then enter into new mortgages with the homeowner thus preventing eviction and restoring the homeowner to non-distress status. The problem here is that title is not clear and eventually […]
With the Obama administration and private lenders actively considering mortgage-principal-reduction programs to help financially distressed homeowners, the Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory to taxpayers who receive — or seek to receive — such assistance if it’s offered. Editor’s Note: The only thing I would add to this, for the moment, is that any […]
You Just Can’t Hide It: Until the market and the judiciary gets real about these mortgages, foreclosures will continue to skyrocket, people will walk away from their homes, and the demand for alternative housing needs will skyrocket as well — which might be the underlying reason why nobody wants to do principal reduction and solve […]
The big jump indicates that many foreclosures that were in process in 2009 are now beginning to move to repossession and, eventually, auction. With more than four million homes in that pipeline, the foreclosure crisis shows no sign of abating. “There is an emerging consensus among financial experts and policy makers that the key to […]
For those ideologues who blindly call for “personal responsibility” we direct your attention to the tens of billions of subsidies (corporate welfare) given to hundreds of corporation, some of whom act contrary to the interests of the American citizen and U.S. Foreign Policy. Either take the blinders off or admit that you don’t care about […]
New research suggests that when a home’s value falls below 75 percent of the amount owed on the mortgage, the owner starts to think hard about walking away, even if he or she has the money to keep paying. See the whole article in New York Times. Extensive discussion of the issue. It’s beginning to […]
“Reducing the loan’s principal balance is more valuable because it lowers monthly payments and restores equity. Various studies show that having equity also reduces the likelihood of redefault on a modified loan. It’s not just the moral thing to do. It also would help avoid the spillover effects of the next expected round of defaults. […]
“Many economists and mortgage experts have concluded that banks must ultimately forgive loan balances to restore equity to underwater borrowers. Otherwise, growing numbers will walk away from their homes and accept foreclosure rather than make payments on properties in which they no longer own a stake.” Editor’s Comments and Notes: The Obama Administration has finally […]
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