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In the mortgage industry, 2008 may go as the year of the ARM reset. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s probably a good thing. But for many, a letter from you lender has recently greeted you with the news that your mortgage payments are going to go up, way up.
Lenders didn’t just decide to do this on a whim. You agreed to this possibility when you closed on that super low rat
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The interest rate cuts made by the Federal Reserve over the past months have helped keep adjustable-rate mortgage increases modest, but it may not be all the housing market need.
Although the loans are adjusting by only 1% on average, loan defaults and foreclosures are still rising. Many industry experts believe this is because of falling [...]
It looks like the cuts by the Fed in interest rates have had a calming effect on potential sub-prime mortgage resets. From a story in the L.A. Times: The great mortgage reset of 2008 isn't turning out quite as advertised.Thanks to interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, payments on sub-prime loans with expiring "teaser" rates are going up only modestly when the loans start adjusting -- by just 1% on average last month, one study found...Defaults and foreclosures are still rising, however -- it's just that the culprit isn't solely the payment shocks once feared. Instead, industry experts put most of the blame on tumbling housing prices, which have left many borrowers owing more than their homes are worth after making little or no down payment, taking on second mortgages o
The image above shows what Jim would call "max-pain" in the on going storm of mortgage resets. We are now in the midst of a mind numbing peak in resets of subprime mortgages. Gee, could this be why retail sales and consumer confidence have fallen off cliff? And while we're at this grim peak, remember that reset doesn't equate with instant default. Default takes 90 days to happen and then once foreclosure proceedings are started, depending on the state, it can take up to a year before the foreclosure actually happens. So even with a peak in resets now, banks and the courts will be busy for the next year dealing with whatever carnage results from this reset tsunami.Oh, and before you breathe a sigh of relief that we're at a peak in resets of "subprime" mortgages, notice that another ts
While many mortgage holders have already experienced the inability to pay higher monthly mortgages due to adjustable-rate loans resetting, it appears many more are still to come. Many companies are estimating that the peak of resets will happen around May and June which will cause a large number of homeowners to default and/or foreclose on [...]
Microsoft is clamping down on gamers who tamper with their Gamerscore and Achievements on Xbox Live. Xbox Live’s Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) confirmed that Microsoft has taken action on the most serious offenders’ accounts.Last year November Microsoft issued a warning against account sharing as well as gamerscore and achievement tampering. Hryb commented “Let me be more clear: If you use tampered gamesaves to boost your Achievements and Gamerscore, you may sign in to Xbox LIVE one day and discover that we have removed your Gamerscore. Once we do that, you will never be able to re-earn those achievements on that account. Even worse, you might have your account and/or console banned from Xbox Live.”As promised Microsoft has taken steps and reset the entire Gamerscore of these accou
The government, the media, and the economists might try to make you believe that the current tide of adjustable rate mortgage resets is the cause of the soaring number of foreclosures, but like we have been documenting here for a long time, the main reason is that many people paid too much for their houses during the boom, taking too much risk, and they now find themselves in a vulnerable situation. Now that prices are coming down, if they lose their jobs, get sick, or get divorce, they have no equity in their houses to allow them to sell and therefore, they end up letting their houses go into foreclosure.
This article in the Sun Sentinel reports the same reasons we have been describing in this blog for a long time.
Data from Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation’s largest mortgage lender, backs up this point. The No. 1 reason its customers have been defaulting on mortgage loans is because their income was cut. That accounted for almost 60 percent of its loan defaults in the fi
I hate to say it, but I have been talking about this for almost a year now. According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2008 $362 billion worth of adjustable-rate subprime mortgages [ARMs] will be reset, "a scenario that could significantly worsen the already serious subprime crisis", according to a report in Saturday's Wall Street Journal.
The "real crest of the reset wave" has yet to take place, which "promises more pain for borrowers, lenders and Wall Street." "The initial wave was largely driven by a higher frequency of fraudulent
According to a WSJ article based upon Bank of America Data. The Real Crest of the ARM reset wave is yet to come.
Now the real crest of the reset wave is coming. This means more pain for borrowers, lenders and Wall Street. We have all observed the bad media over the last year and more specifically the last three months. Here in Florida, we have achieved all time records in a lot of areas we would rather not be mentioned for. Bad as it has been, most of the fall out hit the subprime markets where lenders focused on people with poor credit. The result is they went bust and people lost their homes.
The big banks and Wall Street also suffered losses, some in the Billions. This has added to layoffs as many Banks and Mortgage Companies ceased operations or curtailed operations. Once again this has hit Florida very hard. Even here in the Tampa Bay, both the Mortgage and Real Estate Markets as a whole have been given the one two punch.
According to Banc of America Securities, this quart
September 6, 2007
Libor Pops Up
September 6, 2007; Page A16
In the game of international credit-market Whac-a-Mole, the Libor rate just popped up, literally. Libor, short for London Interbank Offered Rate, climbed to 5.72% Wednesday, the 10th day in a row it has tracked higher. Libor is the rate at which banks lend to each other for the short term, and the rate pop represents greater apprehension among banks about whom they are lending to.
In normal market conditions, Libor tracks the Federal Funds rate pretty closely, and as recently as July the two were just 13 basis points, or hundredths of a percent, apart. As of Wednesday’s close, that gap had grown to nearly 50 basis points, or half a percent. With exposure to the U.S. mortgage market cropping up in seemingly unlikely places, such as banks around Europe, banks that lend at Libor are expressing concern, through the rising rates, that borrowers who appear safe may prove to have something ugly hiding on their balance sheets.
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