Low-credit borrowers aren’t the only people who’ll pay a price for the rising number of mortgage defaults. Ordinary homebuyers will take a hit as well, through higher fees at closing.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that back 40 percent of American mortgages, have decided to impose a new fee of one-quarter of [...]
Congress, White House debate solutions to help people keep their homes
By John W. Schoen
Senior Producer
MSNBC
As Congress and the White House continue to work toward solutions to help embattled homeowners, home foreclosure filings took a big jump in the third quarter, according to the latest data from real estate Web site RealtyTrac.
Foreclosure actions were reported [...]
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The financial markets are pretty skittish these days as banks and other mortgage lenders continue to report big losses from mortgage loans gone bad. But in any market, one person’s loss is often another person’s gain. So where did all those “losses” from bad mortgages [...]
Financially stressed homeowners have options instead of just moving out
It’s the toxic fallout from the “subprime meltdown”: More and more Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure.
Sadly, many could escape this fate if they’d just talk to their lenders. Instead, they hunker down and hope against hope that something will happen before the [...]
Reform legislation
The Expanding the American Homeownership Act, H.R. 1852, known as FHA Reform or FHA Modernization, was approved by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on May 3, 2007. The bill now awaits a vote by the full House of Representatives. It will enable the FHA to reach more prospective borrowers and allow millions more low- [...]
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