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Stern Advice: New math for old mortgages
Reuters
In a way, you can, says Keith Gumbinger of HSH.com, a Riverdale, New Jersey, mortgage research firm. His theory is that you can lower your effective interest rate by pre-paying the loan. That's a strategy that might be especially useful for homeowners ...
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Canada PM: Wants to Ensure Mortgages, Housing Market Remain "Stable"
Fox Business
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday his government wants to ensure mortgages and the housing market remain "stable," as he defended government moves to dissuade financial institutions from lowering mortgage rates. "We want to ...
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Nevada Still Tops For Underwater Mortgages
CBS Local
Underwater is also called negative equity and means a borrower owes more on their mortgage than their home is worth. Negative equity in the U.S. totaled $628 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, down by $42 billion from the previous quarter.
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CBS Local
Generation Plans to Reposition Reverse Mortgages with New Technology
Reverse Mortgage Daily
Generation mortgage is making a play at reverse mortgage market growth through the launch of a new technology the company says will "reposition" reverse mortgages. The new app planning tool, "nu62(SM)," shows the correlation of home equity amount to ...
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Call it Cammie Mae? Osborne gets UK to back mortgages
MarketWatch (blog)
As part of the budget, British Chancellor George Osborne said the government will put 3.5 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) into home-buying support programs as well as a program to guarantee up to 130 billion pounds of mortgages with 5% down payments over ...
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Spanish Banks Cut Developers as Zombies Dying: Mortgages
Businessweek
Spanish banks are pulling the plug on thousands of builders kept alive during the past five years even as they built almost nothing, said Mikel Echavarren, chief executive officer of Irea, a Madrid-based consulting firm that has advised on 22 billion ...
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Budget's support for new mortgages boosts construction companies' shares
The Guardian
The chancellor set out in his budget plans for interest-free loans and guarantees to support £130bn worth of new mortgages from 2014. The surprise announcement sent shares in housebuilders soaring, but sparked fears of a new house price bubble and ...
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The Guardian
Mortgages with negative equity increased slightly in fourth quarter
Business Record
Real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said in a report that 14,928 mortgages were in negative equity during the fourth quarter of 2012 in Greater Des Moines. The number, representing 13.3 percent of all residential properties with a mortgage...
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Canada's Flaherty Worried About Impact of Higher Rates on Mortgages
Fox Business
"My concern for a number of years is that with very low interest rates is to ensure that people can afford their mortgages when interest rates go up," he said at the Roots leather factory in Toronto while choosing a new pair of shoes to wear while ...
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Owners of energy-efficient homes are less likely to default on mortgages
RealEstateRama (press release)
"Home Energy Efficiency and Mortgage Risks" was released today (March 19) by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Community Capital and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting ...
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Budget 2013: Should the state really be underwriting our mortgages?
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Did the phrase "sub-prime" flit across your mind when George Osborne announced his stonking £130bn mortgage guarantee scheme for people who cannot find the necessary deposit? He is right that the biggest barrier to people entering the housing market ...
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Deutsche Bank Cuts 2012 Profit on Litigation Reserves
Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), continental Europe's biggest bank, cut its reported profit for 2012 after setting aside additional money to cover legal costs linked to U.S. mortgage lawsuits and other regulatory probes. The company increased the reserves by 33 ...
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Bloomberg
Core Logic: 9.9% of Long Island homeowners have underwater mortgages
News 12 Long Island (subscription)
National data provider Core Logic found 9.9 percent, or almost 54,000 Long Island homeowners, are dealing with underwater mortgages. That means they owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. The Long Island Housing Partnership says ...
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HSBC axes interest-only mortgages except for its richest customers (and that ...
This is Money
'Currently the majority of HSBC's interest-only mortgage customers qualify for Premier. The changes are being made ahead of the Mortgage Market Review (MMR), which is expected to treat interest only mortgages as a niche product offering when it comes ...
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Cash injection: Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled £5bn of help for ...
Daily Mail
The Chancellor today unveiled a new £5billion homes package for Britain as he desperately tries to jump-start the economy. Taxpayers will under-write more mortgages for first and second time buyers while more council tenants will be able to purchase ...
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Daily Mail
Conservative minister Bernier criticizes Flaherty for mortgage rate intervention
Financial Post (blog)
Small Business Minister Maxime Bernier believes the finance minister overstepped his bounds by having his office phone Manulife Financial and ask they withdraw their discount on five-year mortgages to 2.89% from 3.09. Bernier told reporters Wednesday ...
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We need more high loan-to-value mortgages
Money Observer
Potential first-time buyers could be forgiven for not knowing which way the mortgage market is moving at present. On the one hand recent statistics published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders suggest new mortgage borrowing activity is at its highest ...
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Money Observer
Fannie and Freddie Must Go
American Banker
The U.S. cannot afford another financial crisis like 2008-9 – a crisis that started with subprime mortgages and would never have grown so large so as to threaten the whole U.S. economy if we had a market-based mortgage structure. Subprime mortgages...
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American Banker
Younger Canadians pessimistic about ability to own a home, poll shows
Financial Post (blog)
Real estate industry observers, including Royal LePage, have said that stricter mortgage rules brought in last summer by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty have made it tougher for first-time buyers to borrow money for a home. The survey, which was released ...
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Financial Post (blog)
Help to Buy: What the Budget means for house buyers and mortgages
ITV News
The 2013 Budget included two key announcements under the title 'Help to Buy' for people looking to buy houses. Both schemes are available to first time buyers and existing homeowners and are applicable to properties worth up to £600,000. In both cases ...
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ITV News
Deutsche Bank takes $800 million lawsuits charge over US mortgages
KOMO News
Deutsche Bank takes $800 million lawsuits charge over U.S. mortgages. By Associated Press Published: Mar 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM PDT Last Updated: Mar 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM PDT. Share this story. Comments; print · email. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ...
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Refinance Demand Keeps Slowing
MortgageLoan.com
Mortgage applications for both home purchases and refinances fell last week, with refinancing dropping to its lowest share of total activity in 10 months. Refinance applications fell a seasonally adjusted 8 percent, according to this morning's weekly ...
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Spectre of Euro regulation fades on BTL mortgages
Rentman Software
The move had caused an outcry with the suggestion that buy-to-let mortgages should be treated as residential mortgages, with borrowers assessed in the same way – on earnings and not on rental income. As with residential mortgages, buy-to-let lenders ...
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Osborne Plans Mortgage-Guarantee Program to Stimulate Lending
Bloomberg
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced a plan to guarantee as much as 130 billion pounds ($197 billion) of new mortgages to stimulate demand from home buyers with limited cash to put down a deposit. The government will ...
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NT Comment: Split Mortgages - 'Each bank is a law unto themselves'
Newstalk 106-108 fm
A couple of weeks later on 13th March 2013 the Central Bank and the Government published a new Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears to be issued at the end of May 2013. Through massive fanfare and spin the Government announced targets for the ...
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Newstalk 106-108 fm
LCQ16: Co-financing schemes
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
(a) According to the information provided by banks to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the annual amount of newly approved first residential mortgage loans involving second mortgages from 2009 to 2012 was between $1.479 billion to $3.882 ...
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Mortgage Applications Tumble as Rates Edge Up; Fewer Refinancing
eCreditDaily.com
Mortgage Applications Tumble as Rates Edge Up; Fewer Refinancing Mortgage applications decreased 7.1 percent last week from one week earlier as the 30-year fixed rate nudged up to 3.82 and the refinancing share of activity dropped for a tenth straight ...
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eCreditDaily.com
U.S. Mortgage Applications Fall 6.9% in Week
NASDAQ
The refinance index declined 8% for the week ended Friday from the previous week, according to MBA's weekly survey, which covers more than three-quarters of all U.S. residential-mortgage applications. On a seasonally adjusted basis, purchasing index ...
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Freddie Mac sues 15 banks over LIBOR
Columbus Dispatch
It names the banks that set the London interbank offered rate, known as LIBOR, which provides the basis for trillions of dollars in contracts around the world, including mortgages, bonds and consumer loans. In a growing scandal, two big British banks ...
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Mortgage Prof.: Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Control Their Own Risk
Reverse Mortgage Daily
There are some risks associated with reverse mortgages, but borrowers are in control of those risks, writes Jack Guttentag, a.k.a. The Mortgage Professor, in a new column this week published by Inman News. In addressing a question about reverse ...
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J.P. Morgan to Issue Its First Mortgage Bond Since 2007
Fox Business
J.P. Morgan's offering is supported by 752 jumbo mortgage loans, most of which of which were originated by J.P. Morgan and First Republic Bank, said Fitch Ratings Wednesday, giving most of the deal the highest triple-A credit rating. The loans filling ...
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Investors Need Security on JP Morgan's New Bonds
Wall Street Journal
Ever since the housing meltdown burned them, mortgage-bond buyers have balked at purchasing securities without a government guarantee. This lack of securitization has impeded housing markets returning to a more-normal state. And it has left the federal ...
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Wall Street Journal
Mortgage activity slips as rates rise
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- U.S. mortgage activity declined last week, as long-term interest rates rose, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. The association said mortgage activity declined 7.1 percent from the previous week while ...
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UPI.com
HSBC and Yorkshire pull out of interest-only deals
Telegraph.co.uk
From this Sunday, those applying for a residential interest-only mortgage with HSBC will have to hold a HSBC Premier bank account - available only to high-net worth customers. In order to qualify for Premier banking, clients need to either have savings ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Budget 2013: Homeowners big winners but even estate agents worry about ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
"The range of measures announced under the 'Help to Buy' scheme to kick start the housing market are much needed. Helping those who can't afford large deposits by using the Government's balance sheet to guarantee mortgages and using capital savings ...
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Budget 2013: Hundreds of thousands of people to be rescued from 'zombie ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Under the new mortgage guarantee scheme, buyers would be able to provide a deposit of as little as 5 per cent, and the Government will underwrite 15 per cent of its value. This would mean the Government is effectively guaranteeing 80 per cent of the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Find Big Reasons to Rally
TheStreet.com
The Libor, or London interbank offered rate, provides the basis for trillions of dollars in global financial instruments including mortgages, bonds and consumer loans. In a report Wednesday we learned the unsavory details. The report states: "In a ...
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How is Cyprus affecting mortgage rates?
HSH Financial Publishers (blog)
foreign currency Rates on the most popular types of mortgages barely moved, according to HSH.com's Weekly Mortgage Rates Radar. The average rate for conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose by one basis point (0.01 percent) to 3.74 percent, a new ...
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Lawsuits force Deutsche Bank to restate 2012 profits
Chicago Tribune
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank cut its previously reported 2012 pretax profit by 600 million euros ($773 million) on Wednesday, hit by new charges related to mortgage-related lawsuits and other regulatory investigations. Europe's biggest bank by ...
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Freddie Mac Lawsuit: Big Banks Rigged LIBOR - Booman Tribune ...
By Steven D <admin@boomantribune.com>
Freddie Mac, i.e., the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, was created in 1970 to increase liquidity in the secondary mortgage market as a means to make home ownership more affordable. As a result, Freddie Mac did, and still does, ...
Booman Tribune
Bernier to Flaherty: Let market rule mortgage rates | iPolitics
By Canadian Press
Not everyone in the Conservative cabinet is backing Jim Flaherty's latest intervention in the mortgage market. Small Business Minister Maxime Bernier says he believes the finance minister overstepped his bounds by having his office phone ...
iPolitics

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'Underwater' Mortgages Decline by 1.7 Million Over Last Year
The number of U.S. homeowners owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth declined by 1.7 million from a year earlier, according to recently ...
www.breitbart.com/.../Underwater-Mortgages-Decline-By-1-7-...
Mortgages just for U.S. military | UTSanDiego.com
VA mortgages make buying a home simple and affordable. says Linda Lee, president of the San Diego Association of Realtors. Some applicants even qualify for ...
www.utsandiego.com/.../veteran-affairs-loans-va-loan-mortga...
Lowell Five Mortgages
Mortgages. We've been financing homes and building communities for 160 years . Our team of local, dedicated professionals will be there for every step along ...
www.lowellfive.com/personal/mortgage-loans/mortgages/
Commercial Mortgages Returned 4.7 Percent for Life Companies ...
Life companies and pension funds increased their market share of commercial property financing last year despite ongoing industry deleveraging, and the ...
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