Loan Modification

Posted on: Friday, March 12, 2010
Economic Thaw
Economic Thaw

RealtyTrac credits the drop to “Foreclosure prevention policies and government legislation [which] are artificially distorting supply and demand equilibrium in the housing market.”

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Posted on: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Mortgage Applications Rise
Mortgage Applications Rise

Mortgage applications rebounded last week, particularly refis. Purchase activity remains subdued,

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Posted on: Monday, February 22, 2010
Permanent Loan Mods Soar
Permanent Loan Mods Soar

An additional 76,000 borrowers have been offered permanent loan mods where the paperwork still has to be signed and returned. The program passed a milestone, with more than one million trial three month loan mods granted, up from 902,620 the month before.

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Posted on: Monday, February 15, 2010
Jumbo Delinquencies Up
Jumbo Delinquencies Up

The deterioration in performance is really the combination of two things going on: rising unemployment that took place throughout 2009 as well as our estimate that about a third of all jumbo loans that are current are underwater in terms of the value

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Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Loan Mod Score Card
Loan Mod Score Card

At the top of the list was Saxon Mortgage modifying half of its 72,709 eligible home loans. Of these 7.6% were made permanent with 9.1% washing out of the plan. Saxon was followed closely by CitiMortgage

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Posted on: Friday, February 5, 2010
FTC Seeks Ban on Upfront Loan Modification Fees
FTC Seeks Ban on Upfront Loan Modification Fees

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission, in a unanimous 4-0 vote sought to protect distressed mortgage borrowers from one of the biggest sources of fraud in the loan modification business, charging homeowners upfront fees. Under the proposed rule, mortgage relief companies could only collect after providing services.
“Homeowners facing foreclosure or struggling to make mortgage payments shouldn’t [...]

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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: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Washington Pushes for Permanent Loan Modications
Washington Pushes for Permanent Loan Modications

“The banks are not doing a good enough job,” according to Michael S. Barr, the US Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions.

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Posted on: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Mortgage Modification Milestone
Mortgage Modification Milestone

If you haven’t yet done so, watch this video to see how eager most loan servicers are to help distressed homeowners like you.

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Posted on: Monday, September 21, 2009
Don’t Pay Upfront Fees
Don’t Pay Upfront Fees

If you walk into office of most mortgage help firms you’ll observe a typical phone room boiler room with banks of hard core salespeople on auto dialers, cajoling and coercing vulnerable borrowers into forking over scarce cash for help.

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