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Does the ?Superfund? announced yesterday sound like a buzzword?

‘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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Does the ?Superfund? announced yesterday sound like a buzzword?

‘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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Does the ?Superfund? announced yesterday sound like a buzzword?

‘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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Does the ?Superfund? announced yesterday sound like a buzzword?

‘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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Mortgages and house prices: more bad news to come

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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Mortgages and house prices: more bad news to come

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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Mortgages and house prices: more bad news to come

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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Rep. Frank Pushes for Mortgage Reform Bill

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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Countrywide agrees to ARMS refinancing

•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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Countrywide agrees to ARMS refinancing

•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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