Topic: Falling Home Value

Posted on: Monday, January 11, 2010
Strategic Default?
Strategic Default?

This plan of action is wrong in a number of ways. Strategic default as advocated by some is irresponsible gaming of the system

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Home Values Stabilize
Home Values Stabilize

Fewer mortgages were underwater in the third quarter of 2009, from 23% to 21% of all single family homes. According to a study by the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, when a home loan is worth more than the property backing it, that fact is a major cause of default

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Posted on: Friday, December 11, 2009
HAMP Ramps Up Slowly
HAMP Ramps Up Slowly

Treasury Homeownership Preservation Office Chief Phyllis Caldwell stated, “Our focus now is on working with servicers, borrowers and organizations to get as many of those eligible homeowners as possible into permanent modifications.”

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Posted on: Friday, November 13, 2009
Foreclosure Lease Back Option
Foreclosure Lease Back Option

In addition to helping homeowners, the initiative keeps foreclosed homes from glutting the market, further depressing home values.

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Posted on: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Deficiency Judgments Can Cause Lingering Grief
Deficiency Judgments Can Cause Lingering Grief

It’s all too easy to get disheartened about your mortgage difficulties and simply decide to pack up and walk away from your home, especially if your mortgage is now substantially greater than the value of your house.

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Posted on: Sunday, July 19, 2009
Cash for Keys
Cash for Keys

Throughout this site, you’ll find advice for saving your home from foreclosure. Sometimes, you can’t save it and the process runs its course, but it’s not the end. You still have to pack up and leave.
When you don’t voluntarily surrender a home, a lender has to go through an eviction process following the foreclosure. Some [...]

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Posted on: Friday, July 17, 2009
Short Fi a Jumbo into a Conforming Mortgage
Short Fi a Jumbo into a Conforming Mortgage

Short fi’s are for borrowers facing hardship. It would work best in an area where house prices have declined precipitously.

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Posted on: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time to Consider a Home Purchase?
Time to Consider a Home Purchase?

It’s starting to look like a good time to buy a home. Last week, according to the Mortgage Banker’s Association, US mortgage applications lifted from a seven month low. Existing home sales rose by 9.2% in May compared to April. It was the first back-to-back monthly increase since September 2005, before the mortgage crisis hit.
It’s [...]

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Posted on: Friday, May 29, 2009
How to Determine Your Home’s Value
How to Determine Your Home’s Value

Today you can not only see your home from the air on Google Earth, but you can find out roughly how much it is worth. The two biggest free websites that offer this service are Zillow with 90 million homes listed and Cyberhomes now up to 76 million.
Knowing the estimated current market value of your [...]

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Posted on: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Obama Plan Adds Second Mortgage Help
Obama Plan Adds Second Mortgage Help

When first launched last month, the Obama foreclosure plan was geared to deal with primary mortgages, but according to Credit Suisse Group, about half of badly delinquent borrowers also carry a second home loan. With falling equity, these borrowers have been placed in an untenable position. Now the Obama Plan is poised to help with [...]

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