One of the federal government’s most-important financial relief efforts for underwater homeowners started operating Nov. 1. Making sense of the story Traditionally short sales, where the lender agrees to accept less than the full amount owed and the house is sold to a new purchaser at a discounted price, are associated with extended periods of [...]
The Colonial Revival headquarters of Fannie Mae, designed by architect Leon Chatelain, Jr. in 1956, located at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., in the Cathedral Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Beginning June 15, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates [...]
Pending home sales in California gained ground for the second consecutive month in February, while the share of equity sales posted higher after two months of decline, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today. Pending home sales: C.A.R.’s Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* rose from a revised 102.3 in January to 127.8 in [...]
The state-run program, “Keep Your Home California,” which helps homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages now has broader eligibility guidelines. Borrowers who did “cash-out” refinances and own multiple properties now are eligible for the program, according to California Housnig Finance Agency officials. To date, Keep Your Home California has helped approximately 8,000 low- and [...]
Short sales – a real estate transaction in which the homeowner needs to sell the property, but owes more on the mortgage than the home currently is worth – continue to dominate the housing market, but these real estate transactions aren’t for everyone. Typically with a short sale, the homeowner is underwater and has experienced [...]
Lenders are losing out on thousands of dollars–sometimes within just mere hours–due to short sale fraud, which is skyrocketing and plaguing the housing market, investigators say. In one of the most common short sale scams, an investor submits a low offer on a home that is underwater, in which the borrower owes more on [...]
We all know that this recession we are in now is all due to our banks and Wall Street. With their haste to make as much money as possible, by reducing lending requirements, they created a housing market that had only one direction to go., down. They created a wave of foreclosures, Wall Street firms [...]
Missed mortgage payments, short sales, and foreclosures can all drastically bring down a credit score. Lenders use credit scores to measure how well a person handles debt. Credit scores range from 300 to 850, with 650 and below considered poor credit. A mortgage makes up a big part of a person’s credit score and [...]
By John J. O’Dell I wonder why banks call short sales, short sales? Of course, what they mean by a short sale is that they are agreeing to sell a house for less than the mortgage they hold on the property. After that, short sale means you will complete a sale within a period of [...]
Photo courtesy of Around Hawaii The California Association of REALTORS® has put full page ads in numerous papers throughout California regarding the frustration of dealing with banks in trying to do short sales with them. A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the sale proceeds fall short of the balance owed [...]
