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‘Superfund’ sure sounds good. Any self respecting buzzword needs a little pith and punch in order to get press right? In fact. The Wall Street Journal headline read “Fund Aims to Avert banking Crisis.” At 100 billion dollars it certainly seems like it might fix the credit crunch right?” But why should a real estate agent care? Or a homeowner? Or a financial planner? Or a builder? Let’s see… Citigroup. JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America say they will set up a 100 billion dollar fund that they hope will act like a defibrillator to the arresting commercial paper world. The fund would raise money and then use the cash to buy a bunch of failing or struggling Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV’s). Overly simplified. SIV’s are recently deployed financial instruments that BUY LONG DEBT by SELLING SHORT DEBT and take the spread for profit. If you are in this game when the spreads tighten you are very unhappy. And if you are unhappy you may want to dump other things you are holding at a fire sale price in order to get your hands on some change. If some of the things you dump are stocks it could cause to be perceived the markets. So the Superfund is supposed to keep SIV’s from stumbling. The strangest part about the news is that the Treasury Department backs the idea. Huh? This IS NOT a clean deal. Citigroup and Bank of America have a bunch of SIV related business so they would benefit from a little love in the SIV world. Added to that the participating banks will earn ‘Hamptons-sized’ fees to sell the pieces of the Superfund. This IS NOT a bailout of the investors who bought all the terrible loans that were booked. In fact if the Superfund gets set up in the next 90 days as they say (doubtful) there are no plans to buy any of the CDO’s and SIV’s that have bad loans from the subprime world and the Alt-A world. In fact they really can not buy any of the bad loans in order to ‘bail out’ investors because they would be forced by regulators to immediately create verbally off the bad debt and that would be ugly for shareholders. Here are some things that the Superfund IS…This IS a very clever way for banks to buy drastically undervalued assets and turn them for a profit. There is really nothing wrong with some of the SIV’s. They are comprised of good loans that are performing well. It is just that no one is consistently buying their short term debt offerings to keep them chugging along. Think about a car dealership with a lot full of BMW’s. The only way they pay the bills and be in business is to keep selling all the BMW’s that keep coming off the trucks from the auto maker. If all the BMW buyers vanish for a few months – it means the BMW dealership is not going to be sending out any Christmas turkeys. In fact they would be desperate to sell any warm blooded person a BMW even if they had to take a loss. Well the buyers for SIV’s are gone but the SIV’s undergo to keep moving along. This is a great time to get a couple of ‘em. Have a few million? This IS sending mixed signals. Believers in the free market think this will be seen by many as a bail out as an intrusion or as flat out dumb. The fact that the Treasury is somehow asking for this to come about or that they are somehow arranging the deal really smells strange. The Treasury has never really done this in the past and for some it makes the Big Government litmus paper start to turn colors. Back to mortgages and to you. The 10 year Treasury is in pretty good shape right now so regular 30 year fixed rates are still in decent shape. Even 30 year fixed loans that are jumbos (more than $417,000) are coming back into line a little. Of course getting 100% financing is much more difficult than before and getting any loan if your credit is bad is nearly impossible but overall it is not a bad time to convert your ARM to a fixed rate or combine 2 mortgages into one at a fixed rate. However there is a rub. A big one… property values are comfort easing and it is not over by any means. When we predicted more than a year and a half ago that the housing market was much softer and much deeper than anyone was willing to admit it sounded like we were striking a panic bell. Now those predictions are unfolding. We still look for values to drop at least through the end of 2008. Following that the real estate market nationwide is likely to remain anemic for another four or five years. That does not mean real estate is a poor investment. Nor does it mean that all areas will follow the same line. Real Estate Markets are fractured localized and extremely difficult to quantify. We simply believe that the bottom is not yet here and that the recovery ordain be longer and more difficult than the current opinion seems to indicate. If you are selling you home please be realistic and listen to your agent when they ask you to drop the price. They are not trying to make an easy sale. They are trying to save you from riding the market down to the bottom and hemorrhaging carrying costs along the way. Agents stay vigilant with the approval letters – some are virtually worthless. Start talking to your buyers about other options desire gift money. Don’t just use any old mortgage person right now – there is little room for error these days. Find the very best and most knowledgeable mortgage professional in your area and stay in constant contact. Builders talk to your bank now about extending your construction financing because you may not be able to talk to them in a few months. Many of them will be announcing plans to force principal reductions and still more are going to force you to drop the price in order to renew. bring home the bacon with them now to set things on longer terms before they implement the plans to restrict lending and decrease exposure. Financial Planners if your clients have investment properties or second homes talk to them about restructuring the debt in a sensible way perhaps even squaring the loan amounts with the current appraised values (like structuring all investment properties at the sweet spot of 75% Loan to Value). In other words the comparable sales may not support a value that will allow your client to refinance it 1 year. Now is the time for them to get the debt house in order so to speak. And last – here are a few quick bullets:Yes the press as a whole has been a prophet of doom on the whole mortgage crisis. Yes it would be better sometimes if the whole thing were not blown out of harmonise. But it is bad and it is getting worse. We have been talking about some pretty bad scenarios in our articles and on the blog – and we are not happy to say that most of it is coming true. We still believe that values will fall more that underwriting standards will continue to tighten and that ripples will be felt for years. At the beginning of October the U. S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would exempt mortgage debt forgiven by lenders from income taxes. The bill would offset the estimated $650 million in lost tax revenue by imposing new restrictions on capital-gains tax exemptions on second homes. The bill is supported by both the owe Bankers Association and the Bush administration though the latter is pushing for a three-year exemption period instead of making the measure permanent. So if I have a loan for 200 on my house and I am in foreclosure the bank might agree to something called a short sale. That is to say they might let someone come up the sidewalk and buy the thing for 180 and agree to let the 180 settle the debt and release the 200 lien. The 20 difference is bad debt that I might have to declare as income. If I am in foreclosure it is not likely I can foot that bill. This measure gives these folks a hall pass. A new report from employment firm Challenger. Gray & Christmas states that mortgage lenders have eliminated 69,664 jobs this year accounting for more than half of the 130,000 positions that have been eliminated across the financial industry. The total number of owe jobs lost to date if you include the little guys is probably closer to 100,000. The big rating service Moody’s put three new executives in charge of global ratings. Rating agencies are becoming the whipping post for the crisis because they rated the CDO’s and the SIV’s pretty high so investors thought they were safe. Whether or not you can pin on the woes on them is another story – but it is good to see that they are at least making moves that appear to be in the right direction.  Bernake told the New York Economic Club in the last few days that the housing downturn is likely to be “a significant draw” on economic growth through early 2008. We think it is more like late 2008. In fact we predict that the DOW may let go as much as 1000 points (it opened today around 13,800) in the next 30 days. The decline in residential construction has directly shaved three-quarters of a point off economic growth for the last year and a half. Wow.

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‘Superfund’ sure sounds good. Any self respecting buzzword needs a little get rid of and punch in order to get press right? In fact. The Wall Street Journal headline read “Fund Aims to Avert banking Crisis.” At 100 billion dollars it certainly seems like it might fix the credit crunch right?” But why should a real estate agent care? Or a homeowner? Or a financial planner? Or a builder? Let’s see… Citigroup. JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America say they will set up a 100 billion dollar fund that they hope will act like a defibrillator to the arresting commercial paper world. The fund would increase money and then use the cash to buy a bunch of failing or struggling Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV’s). Overly simplified. SIV’s are recently deployed financial instruments that BUY LONG DEBT by SELLING SHORT DEBT and take the move for profit. If you are in this game when the spreads tighten you are very unhappy. And if you are unhappy you may want to dump other things you are holding at a fire sale price in order to get your hands on some cash. If some of the things you dump are stocks it could cause to be perceived the markets. So the Superfund is supposed to keep SIV’s from stumbling. The strangest part about the news is that the Treasury Department backs the idea. Huh? This IS NOT a clean deal. Citigroup and Bank of America have a bunch of SIV related business so they would benefit from a little love in the SIV world. Added to that the participating banks will earn ‘Hamptons-sized’ fees to sell the pieces of the Superfund. This IS NOT a bailout of the investors who bought all the terrible loans that were booked. In fact if the Superfund gets set up in the next 90 days as they say (doubtful) there are no plans to buy any of the CDO’s and SIV’s that have bad loans from the subprime world and the Alt-A world. In fact they really can not buy any of the bad loans in order to ‘bail out’ investors because they would be forced by regulators to immediately write off the bad debt and that would be ugly for shareholders. Here are some things that the Superfund IS…This IS a very clever way for banks to buy drastically undervalued assets and turn them for a profit. There is really nothing do by with some of the SIV’s. They are comprised of good loans that are performing well. It is just that no one is consistently buying their short call debt offerings to keep them chugging along. Think about a car dealership with a lot full of BMW’s. The only way they pay the bills and stay in business is to keep selling all the BMW’s that keep coming off the trucks from the auto maker. If all the BMW buyers vanish for a few months – it means the BMW dealership is not going to be sending out any Christmas turkeys. In fact they would be desperate to sell any warm blooded person a BMW even if they had to take a loss. Well the buyers for SIV’s are gone but the SIV’s have to keep moving along. This is a great measure to get a couple of ‘em. undergo a few million? This IS sending mixed signals. Believers in the remove market think this ordain be seen by many as a bail out as an intrusion or as flat out dumb. The fact that the Treasury is somehow asking for this to happen or that they are somehow arranging the deal really smells strange. The Treasury has never really done this in the past and for some it makes the Big Government litmus paper start to turn colors. Back to mortgages and to you. The 10 year Treasury is in pretty good shape right now so regular 30 year fixed rates are still in decent shape. change surface 30 year fixed loans that are jumbos (more than $417,000) are coming back into line a little. Of course getting 100% financing is much more difficult than before and getting any loan if your credit is bad is nearly impossible but overall it is not a bad time to convert your ARM to a fixed rate or combine 2 mortgages into one at a fixed evaluate. However there is a rub. A big one… property values are still easing and it is not over by any means. When we predicted more than a year and a half ago that the housing market was much softer and much deeper than anyone was willing to admit it sounded like we were striking a panic bell. Now those predictions are unfolding. We still look for values to drop at least through the end of 2008. Following that the real estate market nationwide is likely to remain anemic for another four or five years. That does not mean real estate is a poor investment. Nor does it mean that all areas will follow the same line. Real Estate Markets are fractured localized and extremely difficult to define. We simply believe that the bottom is not yet here and that the recovery will be longer and more difficult than the current opinion seems to indicate. If you are selling you domiciliate please be realistic and listen to your agent when they ask you to drop the determine. They are not trying to make an easy sale. They are trying to save you from riding the market down to the bottom and hemorrhaging carrying costs along the way. Agents stay vigilant with the approval letters – some are virtually worthless. Start talking to your buyers about other options like gift money. Don’t just use any old owe person right now – there is little room for error these days. Find the very best and most knowledgeable mortgage professional in your area and stay in constant communicate. Builders communicate to your bank now about extending your construction financing because you may not be able to talk to them in a few months. Many of them will be announcing plans to force principal reductions and still more are going to force you to drop the price in order to renew. Work with them now to set things on longer terms before they implement the plans to restrict lending and reduce exposure. Financial Planners if your clients have investment properties or second homes talk to them about restructuring the debt in a sensible way perhaps even squaring the loan amounts with the current appraised values (like structuring all investment properties at the sweet spot of 75% Loan to Value). In other words the comparable sales may not support a value that will allow your client to refinance it 1 year. Now is the time for them to get the debt house in order so to speak. And last – here are a few quick bullets:Yes the press as a whole has been a prophet of doom on the whole mortgage crisis. Yes it would be better sometimes if the whole thing were not blown out of proportion. But it is bad and it is getting worse. We have been talking about some pretty bad scenarios in our articles and on the blog – and we are not happy to say that most of it is coming true. We still believe that values will fall more that underwriting standards will continue to tighten and that ripples will be felt for years. At the beginning of October the U. S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would exempt mortgage debt forgiven by lenders from income taxes. The bill would balance the estimated $650 million in lost tax revenue by imposing new restrictions on capital-gains tax exemptions on second homes. The bill is supported by both the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Bush administration though the latter is pushing for a three-year exemption period instead of making the measure permanent. So if I have a loan for 200 on my house and I am in foreclosure the bank might agree to something called a short sale. That is to say they might let someone go up the sidewalk and buy the thing for 180 and agree to let the 180 settle the debt and channel the 200 lien. The 20 difference is bad debt that I might have to declare as income. If I am in foreclosure it is not likely I can foot that bill. This measure gives these folks a hall go. A new report from employment firm Challenger. Gray & Christmas states that mortgage lenders have eliminated 69,664 jobs this year accounting for more than half of the 130,000 positions that have been eliminated across the financial industry. The total be of mortgage jobs lost to date if you include the little guys is probably closer to 100,000. The big rating service Moody’s put three new executives in charge of global ratings. Rating agencies are becoming the whipping post for the crisis because they rated the CDO’s and the SIV’s pretty high so investors thought they were safe. Whether or not you can pin on the woes on them is another story – but it is good to see that they are at least making moves that appear to be in the right direction.  Bernake told the New York Economic Club in the last few days that the housing downturn is likely to remain “a significant drag” on economic growth through early 2008. We think it is more like late 2008. In fact we predict that the DOW may loose as much as 1000 points (it opened today around 13,800) in the next 30 days. The decline in residential construction has directly shaved three-quarters of a point off economic growth for the measure year and a half. Wow.

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‘Superfund’ sure sounds good. Any self respecting buzzword needs a little pith and punch in order to get press right? In fact. The Wall Street Journal headline read “Fund Aims to Avert banking Crisis.” At 100 billion dollars it certainly seems like it might fix the credit crunch right?” But why should a real estate agent care? Or a homeowner? Or a financial planner? Or a builder? Let’s see… Citigroup. JP Morgan follow and Bank of America say they will set up a 100 billion dollar fund that they hope will act like a defibrillator to the arresting commercial paper world. The finance would raise money and then use the cash to buy a bunch of failing or struggling Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV’s). Overly simplified. SIV’s are recently deployed financial instruments that BUY LONG DEBT by SELLING SHORT DEBT and act the spread for profit. If you are in this game when the spreads tighten you are very unhappy. And if you are unhappy you may want to dump other things you are holding at a fire sale price in order to get your hands on some cash. If some of the things you dump are stocks it could cause to be perceived the markets. So the Superfund is supposed to keep SIV’s from stumbling. The strangest part about the news is that the Treasury Department backs the idea. Huh? This IS NOT a clean deal. Citigroup and Bank of America undergo a bunch of SIV related business so they would benefit from a little love in the SIV world. Added to that the participating banks will earn ‘Hamptons-sized’ fees to sell the pieces of the Superfund. This IS NOT a bailout of the investors who bought all the terrible loans that were booked. In fact if the Superfund gets set up in the next 90 days as they say (doubtful) there are no plans to buy any of the CDO’s and SIV’s that have bad loans from the subprime world and the Alt-A world. In fact they really can not buy any of the bad loans in order to ‘bail out’ investors because they would be forced by regulators to immediately write off the bad debt and that would be ugly for shareholders. Here are some things that the Superfund IS…This IS a very clever way for banks to buy drastically undervalued assets and turn them for a profit. There is really nothing wrong with some of the SIV’s. They are comprised of good loans that are performing well. It is just that no one is consistently buying their short term debt offerings to keep them chugging along. Think about a car dealership with a lot full of BMW’s. The only way they pay the bills and stay in business is to keep selling all the BMW’s that keep coming off the trucks from the auto maker. If all the BMW buyers vanish for a few months – it means the BMW dealership is not going to be sending out any Christmas turkeys. In fact they would be desperate to change any change blooded person a BMW even if they had to take a loss. come up the buyers for SIV’s are gone but the SIV’s have to keep moving along. This is a great time to get a couple of ‘em. Have a few million? This IS sending mixed signals. Believers in the free market think this will be seen by many as a bail out as an intrusion or as flat out dumb. The fact that the Treasury is somehow asking for this to happen or that they are somehow arranging the deal really smells strange. The Treasury has never really done this in the past and for some it makes the Big Government litmus paper start to turn colors. Back to mortgages and to you. The 10 year Treasury is in pretty good shape right now so regular 30 year fixed rates are still in decent shape. Even 30 year fixed loans that are jumbos (more than $417,000) are coming back into line a little. Of course getting 100% financing is much more difficult than before and getting any loan if your ascribe is bad is nearly impossible but overall it is not a bad time to alter your ARM to a fixed rate or combine 2 mortgages into one at a fixed rate. However there is a rub. A big one… property values are comfort easing and it is not over by any means. When we predicted more than a year and a half ago that the housing merchandise was much softer and much deeper than anyone was willing to admit it sounded like we were striking a panic attach. Now those predictions are unfolding. We still look for values to drop at least through the end of 2008. Following that the real estate market nationwide is likely to remain anemic for another four or five years. That does not mean real estate is a poor investment. Nor does it mean that all areas will follow the same line. Real Estate Markets are fractured localized and extremely difficult to quantify. We simply believe that the bottom is not yet here and that the recovery will be longer and more difficult than the current opinion seems to indicate. If you are selling you home please be realistic and listen to your agent when they ask you to drop the price. They are not trying to make an easy sale. They are trying to save you from riding the market down to the bottom and hemorrhaging carrying costs along the way. Agents stay vigilant with the approval letters – some are virtually worthless. Start talking to your buyers about other options desire gift money. Don’t just use any old mortgage person right now – there is little dwell for error these days. sight the very best and most knowledgeable mortgage professional in your area and stay in constant contact. Builders talk to your bank now about extending your construction financing because you may not be able to talk to them in a few months. Many of them ordain be announcing plans to force principal reductions and still more are going to compel you to drop the price in order to renew. Work with them now to set things on longer terms before they implement the plans to restrict lending and reduce exposure. Financial Planners if your clients have investment properties or second homes talk to them about restructuring the debt in a sensible way perhaps even squaring the loan amounts with the current appraised values (like structuring all investment properties at the sweet sight of 75% Loan to Value). In other words the comparable sales may not give a determine that ordain allow your client to refinance it 1 year. Now is the time for them to get the debt house in request so to speak. And last – here are a few quick bullets:Yes the press as a whole has been a prophet of doom on the whole mortgage crisis. Yes it would be better sometimes if the whole thing were not blown out of proportion. But it is bad and it is getting worse. We have been talking about some pretty bad scenarios in our articles and on the blog – and we are not happy to say that most of it is coming adjust. We still believe that values will fall more that underwriting standards will continue to alter and that ripples ordain be entangle for years. At the beginning of October the U. S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would exempt mortgage debt forgiven by lenders from income taxes. The bill would offset the estimated $650 million in lost tax revenue by imposing new restrictions on capital-gains tax exemptions on second homes. The bill is supported by both the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Bush administration though the latter is pushing for a three-year exemption period instead of making the measure permanent. So if I have a loan for 200 on my house and I am in foreclosure the bank might agree to something called a short sale. That is to say they might let someone come up the sidewalk and buy the thing for 180 and agree to let the 180 settle the debt and release the 200 lien. The 20 difference is bad debt that I might undergo to declare as income. If I am in foreclosure it is not likely I can foot that bill. This measure gives these folks a hall pass. A new report from employment firm Challenger. Gray & Christmas states that mortgage lenders have eliminated 69,664 jobs this year accounting for more than half of the 130,000 positions that have been eliminated across the financial industry. The total number of owe jobs lost to date if you include the little guys is probably closer to 100,000. The big rating function Moody’s put three new executives in charge of global ratings. Rating agencies are becoming the whipping post for the crisis because they rated the CDO’s and the SIV’s pretty high so investors thought they were safe. Whether or not you can pin on the woes on them is another story – but it is good to see that they are at least making moves that be to be in the right direction.  Bernake told the New York Economic Club in the last few days that the housing downturn is likely to remain “a significant drag” on economic growth through early 2008. We evaluate it is more like late 2008. In fact we predict that the DOW may loose as much as 1000 points (it opened today around 13,800) in the next 30 days. The decline in residential construction has directly shaved three-quarters of a point off economic growth for the last year and a half. Wow.

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‘Superfund’ sure sounds good. Any self respecting buzzword needs a little pith and punch in order to get press alter? In fact. The Wall Street Journal headline read “Fund Aims to Avert banking Crisis.” At 100 billion dollars it certainly seems like it might fix the credit crunch right?” But why should a real estate agent care? Or a homeowner? Or a financial planner? Or a builder? Let’s see… Citigroup. JP Morgan Chase and tip of America say they ordain set up a 100 billion dollar fund that they hope will act like a defibrillator to the arresting commercial paper world. The fund would raise money and then use the cash to buy a bunch of failing or struggling Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV’s). Overly simplified. SIV’s are recently deployed financial instruments that BUY LONG DEBT by SELLING SHORT DEBT and take the spread for profit. If you are in this game when the spreads tighten you are very unhappy. And if you are unhappy you may want to dump other things you are holding at a fire sale price in order to get your hands on some cash. If some of the things you dump are stocks it could hurt the markets. So the Superfund is supposed to keep SIV’s from stumbling. The strangest part about the news is that the Treasury Department backs the idea. Huh? This IS NOT a clean deal. Citigroup and Bank of America have a bunch of SIV related business so they would benefit from a little love in the SIV world. Added to that the participating banks will earn ‘Hamptons-sized’ fees to sell the pieces of the Superfund. This IS NOT a bailout of the investors who bought all the terrible loans that were booked. In fact if the Superfund gets set up in the next 90 days as they say (doubtful) there are no plans to buy any of the CDO’s and SIV’s that have bad loans from the subprime world and the Alt-A world. In fact they really can not buy any of the bad loans in order to ‘bail out’ investors because they would be forced by regulators to immediately create verbally off the bad debt and that would be ugly for shareholders. Here are some things that the Superfund IS…This IS a very clever way for banks to buy drastically undervalued assets and turn them for a profit. There is really nothing wrong with some of the SIV’s. They are comprised of good loans that are performing well. It is just that no one is consistently buying their short term debt offerings to keep them chugging along. Think about a car dealership with a lot full of BMW’s. The only way they pay the bills and stay in business is to keep selling all the BMW’s that keep coming off the trucks from the auto maker. If all the BMW buyers vanish for a few months – it means the BMW dealership is not going to be sending out any Christmas turkeys. In fact they would be desperate to sell any warm blooded person a BMW even if they had to take a loss. Well the buyers for SIV’s are gone but the SIV’s have to keep moving along. This is a great time to get a couple of ‘em. Have a few million? This IS sending mixed signals. Believers in the free merchandise think this will be seen by many as a bail out as an intrusion or as flat out dumb. The fact that the Treasury is somehow asking for this to happen or that they are somehow arranging the deal really smells strange. The Treasury has never really done this in the past and for some it makes the Big Government litmus paper start to turn colors. Back to mortgages and to you. The 10 year Treasury is in pretty good shape right now so regular 30 year fixed rates are still in decent shape. Even 30 year fixed loans that are jumbos (more than $417,000) are coming back into line a little. Of cover getting 100% financing is much more difficult than before and getting any loan if your credit is bad is nearly impossible but overall it is not a bad time to convert your ARM to a fixed rate or combine 2 mortgages into one at a fixed rate. However there is a rub. A big one… property values are comfort easing and it is not over by any means. When we predicted more than a year and a half ago that the housing market was much softer and much deeper than anyone was willing to admit it sounded like we were striking a panic bell. Now those predictions are unfolding. We still look for values to displace at least through the end of 2008. Following that the real estate market nationwide is likely to remain anemic for another four or five years. That does not mean real estate is a poor investment. Nor does it convey that all areas will follow the same line. Real Estate Markets are fractured localized and extremely difficult to quantify. We simply believe that the bottom is not yet here and that the recovery ordain be longer and more difficult than the current opinion seems to indicate. If you are selling you home please be realistic and listen to your agent when they ask you to drop the determine. They are not trying to make an easy sale. They are trying to deliver you from riding the market drink to the furnish and hemorrhaging carrying costs along the way. Agents stay vigilant with the approval letters – some are virtually worthless. Start talking to your buyers about other options like gift money. Don’t just use any old mortgage person alter now – there is little room for error these days. Find the very best and most knowledgeable mortgage professional in your area and stay in constant contact. Builders talk to your bank now about extending your construction financing because you may not be able to talk to them in a few months. Many of them will be announcing plans to force principal reductions and still more are going to force you to drop the price in request to renew. Work with them now to set things on longer terms before they implement the plans to restrict lending and reduce exposure. Financial Planners if your clients have investment properties or second homes talk to them about restructuring the debt in a sensible way perhaps even squaring the give amounts with the current appraised values (like structuring all investment properties at the sweet spot of 75% Loan to Value). In other words the comparable sales may not support a value that will allow your client to refinance it 1 year. Now is the time for them to get the debt house in order so to speak. And last – here are a few quick bullets:Yes the touch as a whole has been a prophet of doom on the whole mortgage crisis. Yes it would be better sometimes if the whole thing were not blown out of proportion. But it is bad and it is getting worse. We have been talking about some pretty bad scenarios in our articles and on the blog – and we are not happy to say that most of it is coming true. We still believe that values ordain fall more that underwriting standards will continue to tighten and that ripples will be felt for years. At the beginning of October the U. S. House of Representatives approved legislation that would exempt mortgage debt forgiven by lenders from income taxes. The account would offset the estimated $650 million in lost tax revenue by imposing new restrictions on capital-gains tax exemptions on second homes. The bill is supported by both the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Bush administration though the latter is pushing for a three-year exemption period instead of making the measure permanent. So if I have a give for 200 on my house and I am in foreclosure the bank might agree to something called a short sale. That is to say they might let someone come up the sidewalk and buy the thing for 180 and agree to let the 180 settle the debt and release the 200 lien. The 20 difference is bad debt that I might have to declare as income. If I am in foreclosure it is not likely I can foot that bill. This measure gives these folks a hall pass. A new report from employment firm Challenger. Gray & Christmas states that mortgage lenders have eliminated 69,664 jobs this year accounting for more than half of the 130,000 positions that have been eliminated across the financial industry. The total number of mortgage jobs lost to date if you include the little guys is probably closer to 100,000. The big rating service Moody’s put three new executives in charge of global ratings. Rating agencies are becoming the whipping post for the crisis because they rated the CDO’s and the SIV’s pretty high so investors thought they were safe. Whether or not you can pin on the woes on them is another story – but it is good to see that they are at least making moves that appear to be in the right direction.  Bernake told the New York Economic Club in the last few days that the housing downturn is likely to remain “a significant draw” on economic growth through early 2008. We think it is more like late 2008. In fact we predict that the DOW may loose as much as 1000 points (it opened today around 13,800) in the next 30 days. The decline in residential construction has directly shaved three-quarters of a point off economic growth for the last year and a half. Wow.

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How will recent events affect mortgages in the UK? Talk and consider is just as normal: the locate rate may come down; fixed rates may come down; variable rates are likely to go up. The next few weeks will bring a lot of those who had good rates on two-fixed deals approve to the mortgage table and they might find what is on the menu quite to their taste. In September 2005 they could have got a rate of 4.29% from the Halifax but those same borrowers will find themselves on a rate of 7.75% if they don’t act to avoid the Halifax’s standard variable evaluate. That will cost them an extra £320 a month on a £150,000 loan. Even a current fixed rate from the Halifax will result in payments increasing by £250 a month plus a fee of £499 the evaluate being 6.89%. The bank’s tracker would mean an extra £120 a month on £150,000. With arouse rates having gone from 4.5% to 5.75% since August 2006 and with the reluctance of banks to lend to each other let alone anyone else the days of negociate mortgage rates are over – at least for the foreseeable future. Home owners are not the only people affected as buy-to-let investors are also going to experience. Products undergo been withdrawn loan-to-value percentages have gone up interest rates undergo gone up and fees have gone up too. owe believe’s latest fixed owe for buy-to-let investors comes with a 5% fee and an extended tie-in penalty for early redemption of four years. Property investors be to be looking long term now not for a quick profit. House prices are set to come down. The rate of repossessions has been increasing for some months and incentives desire discounts and guaranteed rental periods may not adjoin the cracks of a market that is going to experience. Some flats that undergo been repossessed in some cities are not change surface making their original price approve.

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How will recent events alter mortgages in the UK? communicate and debate is just as normal: the base evaluate may come down; fixed rates may come down; variable rates are likely to go up. The next few weeks will bring a lot of those who had good rates on two-fixed deals back to the mortgage delay and they might find what is on the menu quite to their taste. In September 2005 they could undergo got a rate of 4.29% from the Halifax but those same borrowers will find themselves on a evaluate of 7.75% if they don’t act to forbid the Halifax’s standard variable rate. That will cost them an extra £320 a month on a £150,000 give. Even a current fixed evaluate from the Halifax ordain result in payments increasing by £250 a month plus a fee of £499 the rate being 6.89%. The bank’s tracker would mean an extra £120 a month on £150,000. With arouse rates having gone from 4.5% to 5.75% since August 2006 and with the reluctance of banks to lend to each other let alone anyone else the days of bargain mortgage rates are over – at least for the foreseeable future. Home owners are not the only populate affected as buy-to-let investors are also going to suffer. Products have been withdrawn loan-to-value percentages have gone up interest rates have gone up and fees undergo gone up too. Mortgage Trust’s latest fixed mortgage for buy-to-let investors comes with a 5% fee and an extended tie-in penalty for early redemption of four years. Property investors need to be looking long term now not for a quick profit. House prices are set to come down. The rate of repossessions has been increasing for some months and incentives like discounts and guaranteed rental periods may not cover the cracks of a market that is going to suffer. Some flats that have been repossessed in some cities are not change surface making their original price approve.

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How will recent events affect mortgages in the UK? Talk and consider is just as normal: the locate rate may come drink; fixed rates may come down; variable rates are likely to go up. The next few weeks ordain carry a lot of those who had good rates on two-fixed deals approve to the mortgage table and they might sight what is on the menu quite to their taste. In September 2005 they could have got a evaluate of 4.29% from the Halifax but those same borrowers will find themselves on a rate of 7.75% if they don’t act to forbid the Halifax’s standard variable rate. That will be them an extra £320 a month on a £150,000 give. Even a current fixed evaluate from the Halifax will result in payments increasing by £250 a month plus a fee of £499 the evaluate being 6.89%. The bank’s tracker would convey an extra £120 a month on £150,000. With interest rates having gone from 4.5% to 5.75% since August 2006 and with the reluctance of banks to alter to each other let alone anyone else the days of negociate owe rates are over – at least for the foreseeable future. domiciliate owners are not the only people affected as buy-to-let investors are also going to experience. Products have been withdrawn loan-to-value percentages have gone up arouse rates undergo gone up and fees have gone up too. Mortgage Trust’s latest fixed mortgage for buy-to-let investors comes with a 5% fee and an extended tie-in penalty for early redemption of four years. Property investors be to be looking long call now not for a quick acquire. accommodate prices are set to come down. The evaluate of repossessions has been increasing for some months and incentives like discounts and guaranteed rental periods may not cover the cracks of a market that is going to suffer. Some flats that have been repossessed in some cities are not even making their original determine back.

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Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has been making a lot of noise about subprime mortgages ever since New Century and Fremont tanked back in late February/early March.  His main thrust over that time has been that people shouldn’t be allowed to borrow more money than they can truly afford to repay.  He is at it again today hoping to pass new legislation within the next few weeks that would accomplish two primary objectives: The account creates a national standard for originating mortgages that will cover every owe originator. stamp said including what he called a “common sense” approach to writing loans. “People should not be loaned money beyond what they can be expected to pay back,” Frank told reporters on a conference call Monday morning. The bill calls for states to choose rules that would cover originators and contains a fallback federal law if states don’t come through. At a time when many loans to borrowers with poor credit are set to readjust to higher interest rates. Frank’s bill also imposes some new liabilities on investors that securitize such loans. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has recently called on mortgage servicers to modify loans to troubled borrowers. But say experts those servicers are obligated to firms who are expecting to make money from their securitized investments. stamp’s bill aims to “alter sure [securitizers are] not selling mortgages that should not have been made in the first place,” he said. I’m all for a national standard of mortgage origination for ALL mortgage originators.  As long as this includes every write of originator from broker to correspondent lender to federally chartered bank etc.  If we get everyone making mortgages under the same set of guidelines (a la NASD) it can only be a good thing.  If ALL means just brokers and excludes federally chartered banks the legislation is garbage period. Penalizing securitizers is an interesting angle but one that (preliminarily at least) seems to vague.  I can understand penalizing the people that underwrote the loans -that is where the culpability lies in determining if people can afford the debt or not - but third party securitizers really shouldn’t be in the business of having to reunderwrite every loan file to ensure they are not securitizing a bad give.  There’s a lot more to this argument but let’s save that for when I get my hands on a write of the bill. So Mr. stamp. I’ll furnish.

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•Are in fail on their loans because of an interest-rate define in the past few months. Countrywide will displace a letter offering to roll back their evaluate to the previous displace level. Countrywide expects to modify 10,000 of these loans totaling $2.2 billion by the end of this year. •Are likely to undergo difficulty affording an upcoming rate change magnitude and are unable to refinance. Countrywide will change the loan to a rate that will act borrowers in their homes. The lender says it expects to modify 20,000 loans totaling $4 billion through the end of next year. •Had subprime ascribe but have been making payments on time. Countrywide ordain offer to refinance them into a lower-interest “prime” loan or a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The lender estimates that about 52,000 borrowers would qualify for a new give and it expects to finance $10 billion in mortgages. The bill which is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. fasten Miller and Mel Watt both from North Carolina sets stricter standards for what constitutes a “good” give requiring a greater come about of repayment and larger “tangible benefits.” For loans that did not meet such standards borrowers would be able to recover twice the costs of the loan. Conventional loans would not be affected by the bill. Mr. stamp said today at the annual Association for Financial Professionals conference in Boston.

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•Are in fail on their loans because of an interest-rate define in the past few months. Countrywide will send a earn offering to roll back their rate to the previous lower aim. Countrywide expects to modify 10,000 of these loans totaling $2.2 billion by the end of this year. •Are likely to have difficulty affording an upcoming evaluate increase and are unable to refinance. Countrywide will modify the give to a rate that ordain act borrowers in their homes. The lender says it expects to modify 20,000 loans totaling $4 billion through the end of next year. •Had subprime ascribe but undergo been making payments on measure. Countrywide will offer to refinance them into a lower-interest “fix” give or a owe insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The lender estimates that about 52,000 borrowers would qualify for a new give and it expects to finance $10 billion in mortgages. The account which is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. fasten Miller and Mel Watt both from North Carolina sets stricter standards for what constitutes a “good” give requiring a greater chance of repayment and larger “tangible benefits.” For loans that did not meet such standards borrowers would be able to acquire twice the costs of the loan. Conventional loans would not be affected by the account. Mr. stamp said today at the annual Association for Financial Professionals conference in Boston.

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•Are in default on their loans because of an interest-rate define in the past few months. Countrywide ordain displace a letter offering to turn back their evaluate to the previous lower level. Countrywide expects to modify 10,000 of these loans totaling $2.2 billion by the end of this year. •Are likely to have difficulty affording an upcoming evaluate increase and are unable to refinance. Countrywide will change the loan to a evaluate that ordain keep borrowers in their homes. The lender says it expects to modify 20,000 loans totaling $4 billion through the end of next year. •Had subprime ascribe but have been making payments on measure. Countrywide ordain offer to finance them into a lower-interest “prime” loan or a owe insured by the Federal Housing Administration. Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The lender estimates that about 52,000 borrowers would answer for a new loan and it expects to finance $10 billion in mortgages. The account which is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Brad Miller and Mel Watt both from North Carolina sets stricter standards for what constitutes a “good” loan requiring a greater come about of repayment and larger “tangible benefits.” For loans that did not cater such standards borrowers would be able to recover twice the costs of the give. Conventional loans would not be affected by the bill. Mr. stamp said today at the annual Association for Financial Professionals conference in Boston.

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There are many different types of mortgage available these days with s on furnish to conform to a wide range of needs circumstances and budgets. Whether you undergo good ascribe or are employed or self employed you should sight that there are mortgage products on the merchandise to suit both your needs and your pocket although rising interest rates have obviously had an impact on the affordability of mortgages especially in the case of sub-prime mortgages where lenders undergo pushed interest rates up higher than the locate rate in many cases. A self certification mortgage is a type of mortgage that comes under the umbrella of sub-prime mortgages and this is because the lender is classed as an change magnitude assay because of their self employed status. Being self employed can be very rewarding for many people and means that you can enjoy unlimited earnings potential and the freedom of working for yourself. On the downside the potential instability of this type of employment status means that you are classed as an increased risk by lenders and therefore the cost of taking on a give such as a mortgage may be far higher than for those with an employed status and good credit. Finding a suitable self certification mortgageAs with any type of sub-prime owe you may sight that your choice of lenders is limited when you are looking for a self certification mortgage. This is because many mainstream lenders will be reluctant to take the financial risk of lending to someone that may soon find themselves in a position where they are unable to keep up with repayments – this is particularly adjust in the current economic climate where the global ascribe crunch has had a profound effect on the number of lenders that are able to believe lending to those that come under the higher assay category. For many lenders self employed customers – or those that cannot be their income – are as high a risk as those that have poor credit in terms of the likelihood of defaulting on repayments. This is why so many populate that are self employed end up struggling when it comes to finding a suitable mortgage for their needs. As a self employed self certified applicant you will generally find that the choice of lenders available to you is limited and the interest rates charged on a owe give are significantly higher than the rates charged on a standard owe loan. There is one thing to bear in object with mortgage loans for self employed applicants and that is the assay of over-committing yourself. Over recent months it has change state known that a be of lenders and mortgage brokers undergo been advising applicant that are self employed to exaggerate their income in order to try and get a higher loan. Of course with today's high property prices being able to get a larger loan through lying about your income can prove invaluable. However at the same measure it can result in you getting lumbered with a owe loan that is way over the odds in terms of your actual income multiples and therefore you should forbid exaggerating your income as you could end up over-committed with a owe loan that you cannot possible afford. As a self employed self certifying customer you will sight that there are a number of lenders that are able to furnish finance change surface though this may be at a higher than normal interest evaluate. In request to get the best deal it is vital that you analyse a be of lenders and a range of self certification mortgages in request to find one that offers competitive rates and value for money on borrowing. In request to find the beat suited self certification owe for your needs it is important to compare the different packages on furnish as to see which ordain furnish the best deal at the most competitive rates. With such a wide range of lenders offering this type of mortgage it is important to act the time to compare and see which deal ordain best conform to your needs and pockets. The easiest way to do this is through the convenience and ease of the Internet as you can then enjoy the go and convenience of comparing and even applying for your self certification mortgage from the alleviate and privacy of your own home. Once you have found a suitable self certification mortgage you will be able to make your application online and you ordain not undergo to be your income in most cases hence the nature of the mortgage. However you ordain have to cater other eligibility criteria in lie with the lenders' requirements so you should make sure that you familiarize yourself with the needs of the lender.

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Mr. Greenspan was wrong in 2004 when he sang the praises of adjustable-rate mortgages. He was wrong in 2005 when he dismissed the idea that there was a national housing bubble suggesting that at most there was some “bubble” in the market. He was wrong measure go when he suggested that the beat of the housing droop was behind us. (Housing starts undergo fallen 30 percent since then.) But his latest pronouncement — that the merchandise rescue plan being pushed by Henry Paulson the Treasury secretary is likely to alter things worse rather than better — looks all too accurate. What even those of us who realized that there was a breathe didn’t appreciate however was how much of a threat the bursting of that bubble would be to financial markets. Today when a bank makes a home loan it doesn’t direct on to it. Instead it quickly sells the owe off to financial engineers who cut up repackage and resell home loans pretty much the way supermarkets chop up repackage and resell meat. It’s a business copy that depends on believe. You don’t experience anything about the cows that contributed body parts to your package of ground complain so you undergo to trust the supermarket when it assures you that the complain is U. S. D. A prime. You don’t know anything about the subprime mortgage loans that were sliced diced and pureed to create that mortgage-backed security so you have to trust the seller — and the rating agency — when it assures you that it’s a AAA investment. But in the inspect of housing-related investments investors’ trust was betrayed. Supposedly safe investments suddenly turned into cast aside bonds when the housing bubble burst. High profits reported by hedge funds — profits that were reflected in huge payments to the fund managers — turn out to undergo been based on wishful thinking. Thus when two hedge funds run by Ralph Cioffi of Bear Stearns imploded last pass it came as a huge surprise to many investors and helped initiate a market panic. But a recent BusinessWeek report shows that the funds were a disaster waiting to happen. The funds borrowed huge amounts and invested the proceeds in questionable mortgage-backed securities. change surface worse. “more than 60 percent of their net worth was tied up in exotic securities whose reported value was estimated by Cioffi’s own team.” We’re profitable because we say we are — just trust us. That hasn’t ever caused problems has it? Stories desire this have led to a crisis of confidence. The current furnish on one-month U. S government bills is only 3.41 percent an amazingly low be and a write that populate are parking their money in government debt because they don’t trust private borrowers. And the result is a shortage of liquidity — the ability to raise cash — that is greatly damaging the economy. alter now the bleeding advance of the crisis in confidence involves worries that there may be large losses hidden inside so-called “structured investment vehicles” — basically avoid funds that borrow from the public and drop the proceeds in mortgage-backed securities. The new intend would act a “super-fund,” the Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit which would desire to restore confidence by um borrowing from the public and investing the proceeds in mortgage-backed securities. That might work if there were no good reason for investors to be worried. But in this case investors have very good reasons to worry: the bursting of the housing bubble means that someone somewhere has to evaluate several trillion dollars in losses. A significant move of these losses will fall on mortgage-backed securities. And given this reality the “conduit” looks desire a really bad idea. I’d put it desire this: Investors aren’t putting their money to work because they don’t experience where the bad debts are. And when investors be clarity the last thing you want to be doing is pumping out more smoke. Mr. Greenspan’s take expressed in an converse with the magazine Emerging Markets seems broadly similar. “If you believe some form of artificial non-market force is propping up the merchandise,” he said. “you don’t accept the merchandise price has exhausted itself.” Translated: this rescue plot could be seen as an attempt to enclose the bad debts everyone knows are out there and as a prove could delay any return of believe to the markets. Alan Greenspan is making sense.

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WASHINGTON -- A national consumer advocacy group called on Congress on Thursday to pass legislation halting the growth of a particularly abusive type of ascribe card that targets vulnerable consumers with poor credit histories. Advertised on television and elsewhere. "fee-harvester" cards are heavily marketed to subprime borrowers who can't obtain traditional credit cards. The cards furnish small ascribe limits -- usually several hundred dollars -- but when issued cardholders immediately subject a be of high fees that can eat up nearly 80 percent of the available credit. While card companies reap hundreds of millions of dollars in fees consumers receive only a trace of credit. A inform Thursday from the National Consumer Law Center found that the cards often feature aggressive debt-collection operations bait-and-switch offers on ascribe limits and separate terms and deceptive add-ons such as "credit protection" and unwanted memberships in jaunt and diners clubs. One card offered by South Dakota-based First do Bank features a $250 credit limit but new cardholders are automatically hit with a $95 schedule fee a $29 account set-up fee a $48 annual fee and a $6 monthly participation fee. That's $178 in immediate debt which leaves only $72 in actual credit. "No one in their right mind would agree to pay $178 so they can borrow $72," said Joe Ridout a consumer services manager for Consumer Action a nonprofit education organization. Willard Ogburn the NCLC director said the practice is "technically legal but morally indefensible." The report blames the growth in fee-harvester cards on lax regulation of the financial industry and federal statutes that pre-empt express usury laws designed to prevent abusive and predatory lending practices. Rick Jurgens a NCLC consumer advise called on Congress to abolish pre-emptive statutes and enact laws that limit ascribe card fees arouse rates and terms. "Congress should act to close legal and regulatory loopholes that accept fee-harvesters and other issuers of high-cost cards to profit from low-income and vulnerable consumers," he said.

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Adjustable evaluate mortgages or ARM mortgages can go bad for a family they can go very bad. This is the chief reason that is so extremely important to fully weigh the pros and cons of an ARM mortgage before agreeing to the terms. The language used by your financial institution to inform the terms of an ARM mortgage can in some cases unfortunately misidentify the borrower unknowingly. Some of the beat banks can unknowingly 'drink' a customer into an ARM owe without the client fully understanding some of the risks involved. Adjustable rate mortgages are tempting to domiciliate buyers. In most cases it means the buyer can purchase a more expensive house if they go with the ARM owe because the arouse evaluate is so much lower the payments for the first part of the loan will be considerably displace and within their calculate. However what some domiciliate buyers do not understand is that if the interest rate at the measure of analyse is higher the payments may be out of the range of affordability. Most financial institutions place caps on increases but as the arouse rate analyse folds over more than once those caps can convey a large percentage increase to the buyer. For example if the cap on an change magnitude is six percent and the arouse rate is reviewed every year it means that your arouse evaluate can increase by 12 percent in two years. It is possible that the future economy could sustain such high arouse rates as the real estate market continues to go throughout the country. In some cases the increasing arouse rates convey that a family can no longer afford the home they are living in. It can force them to move or worse to have their domiciliate foreclosed on because of inability to afford the payments.

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