By Mike Colpitts Former homeowners who have defaulted on their home mortgages and suffered through foreclosure are increasingly receiving offers of credit to obtain credit cards, auto loans and all sorts of other loans. However, the offers of new credit to the foreclosure victims come with a high price. The offers arrive in the mail… Continue reading Foreclosure Victims Offered New Credit
Category: Economic Crisis
Banks Mortgage Servicers Penalized
By Mike Colpitts Nearly four years after the foreclosure crisis began to make inroads to wreck the U.S. economy and mortgage lenders started foreclosing on homes without proof of ownership, the U.S. Treasury is finally taking action to withhold payments to three of the nation’s largest banks as a way to penalize their mortgage servicing… Continue reading Banks Mortgage Servicers Penalized
Manic Positive Side of Housing Mess
By Kevin Chiu In what seems like the manic side of the housing mess, young couples are sometimes finding themselves as the lucky beneficiaries of the foreclosure crisis. Take Adam and Lindsey Blackmon of Newport News, Virginia for example. The couple wasn’t even shopping for a home when they couldn’t help but notice a two-year… Continue reading Manic Positive Side of Housing Mess
Miami Home Sales Go Nuts
By Mike Colpitts Condominium and single family home sales are surging in Miami, once the nation’s epicenter of the real estate crash. Condo sales jumped 46% in May and single family home sales rose 20% over a year ago. The surge in sales was led by 1,420 condominiums that changed hands during the month, which… Continue reading Miami Home Sales Go Nuts
Glass-Steagall Should Be Re-Adopted, Survey Overwhelmingly Shows
The Glass-Steagall Act that was enacted at the height of the Great Depression to halt “improper banking activity” should be re-adopted to halt the possibility of another financial crisis, according to a new Housing Predictor survey. Respondents to the online opinion poll overwhelmingly support the act’s re-implementation. During the Great Depression when half of all… Continue reading Glass-Steagall Should Be Re-Adopted, Survey Overwhelmingly Shows
ACLU Says Foreclosure ‘Rocket Docket’ Unconstitutional
By Mike Colpitts The American Civil Liberties Union says that Florida’s ‘rocket docket’ designed to speed up the foreclosure process to benefit bankers’ is unconstitutional, and will challenge the system to the fullest extent of the law in court. The U.S. 20th Judicial Circuit operates the system, which covers foreclosures in five Southern Florida counties,… Continue reading ACLU Says Foreclosure ‘Rocket Docket’ Unconstitutional
Mortgage Interest Rates & Applications Drop
By Kevin Chiu Weak economic data and disappointing news on jobs led a drop in mortgage interest rates as the yield on heavily monitored 10-year Treasury bonds slid below 3%. It was the seventh week in a row that mortgage rates saw a drop along with applications for home loans. The Feds quantitative easing program… Continue reading Mortgage Interest Rates & Applications Drop
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Bailout Reaches $317 Billion
By Mike Colpitts The cost of bailing out giant mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is actually $317 billion so far, according to the Congressional Budget Office, more than double what the Obama administration has claimed. Before the mortgage giants are cleaned-up it’s likely the government will spend at least $1-trillion on foreclosed mortgages,… Continue reading Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Bailout Reaches $317 Billion
Housing Foreclosure Crisis Five More Years
By Mike Colpitts The foreclosure crisis, already the harshest to hit U.S. homeowners in history is projected to drag on another five years, and will include more than a total of 15-million mortgage holders, according to a new Housing Predictor forecast. More than 7-million homes have been foreclosed since the crisis started as a result… Continue reading Housing Foreclosure Crisis Five More Years
Housing Downturn Reaches Year Five
By Mike Colpitts The downturn in the U.S. residential housing market is approaching five years, which arrives in just one week with the start of June. Housing markets in California and Florida were the fist to feel the impact of the slowdown that resulted from a combination of Wall Street shenanigans and bankers creative financing… Continue reading Housing Downturn Reaches Year Five