St Louis Home Mortgage, Loans and Refinancing: Foreclosures Spreading

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St Louis Finance and Loan News: Foreclosures Are Spreading
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 According to a report released early in 2011 by RealtyTrac, one out of every 9 homes in Las Vegas, Nevada received some kind of default notice in 2010.

But there seems to be a silver lining: The foreclosure rate is actually dropping in Vegas which was down 7 percent compared to the end of 2009 according to the St Louis Refinancing Group news team.

In fact, rates fell in all top 10 foreclosure markets of 2010.

In second highest foreclosure market,

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St Louis Mortgage Loan and Finance Lending: TARP Blasts Foreclosure Programs

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St Louis Finance and Mortgage Refinancing News: TARP Watchdog Blasts White House's Foreclosure Programs
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  In a quarterly report released to Congress, Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), said the program has been a success financially, but that programs "designed to help Main Street rather than Wall Street" have been failures.

Barofsky focused part of his criticism on the Home Affordable Modification Program, known as HAMP, which is intended to help eligible homeowners avoid foreclosure by facilitating mortgage modifications with loan servicers according to St Louis finance experts.

When 2010 ended, on December 31st, there were over 500,000 ongoing permanent modifications under

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St Louis Refinancing and Mortgage Loan: Another Housing Crash May Be Coming

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St Louis Finance and Mortgage Refinancing News: The Housing Crash Part II
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 Many experts are saying the best evidence that we're headed for a double-dip recession in housing is the quality of the mortgages during the recent period in which the housing market seemed to improve in many areas.

In the Freddie Mac review of Citigroup’s performing loans, the portion rated as “Not Acceptable Quality” was as high as 32 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

While this has obvious implications for

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St Louis Mortgage Loan and Lending: Home Prices Have Been Lower

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St Louis Finance and Loan Audit News: Home Prices 4.1 Percent Lower In 2010
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American home prices were turbulent through 2010 ending up 4.1 percent lower than the year before, according to analytics firm Clear Capital. And prices are expected

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St Louis Home Loan and Mortgage Lending: Rural Defaults Increase

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St Louis Finance and Lending News: Rural Defaults On The Rise
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 Seeking to buoy a strained rural economy in the midst of the recession, the then-Democrat dominated Congress ordered up a huge increase in federal mortgage guarantees for small-town home buyers as part of the 2009 economic stimulus package according to several economists including St Louis home loans experts.

A newly released audit has found that the rural home loan program, administered by the United States

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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Home Loan Mortgage: HAMP Is Still Struggling

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Lending News: HAMP Found Lacking, Again
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Approximately twelve months ago, the Congressional Oversight Panel found the program HAMP to be struggling to get off the ground despite having been in action for nearly a year and a half.

The latest evaluation of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) came out and the result was the same deal. HAMP has undergone several tweaks since April 2010.

But the Congressional Oversight Panel, created to issue periodic reports on the TARP bailout program, found little improvement in performance according to a St Louis mortgage broker.

Instead of helping 3 million to

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Principal Loan Reduction: Mortgage Market Future Losses

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St Louis Mortgage and Loan Reduction News: Mortgage Market Underestimating Future Defaults?
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Amherst Securities Group said the market is not taking into consideration the high likelihood of potential defaults on performing or re-performing mortgages when estimating future losses on these delinquent loans.

Mortgage-backed securities analysts at the fixed income dealer took a look at $1.3 trillion in outstanding non-agency mortgages from a year ago to see how they're doing as of November 2010 according to St Louis mortgage lending sources.

They found that the $485 Billion

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St Louis Mortgage Loan and Finance Lending: Bank of America Is Settling

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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Modification: Bank of America Settles For $3 Billion Dollars
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Bank of America (BOA) said that it paid nearly $1.3 billion to Freddie Mac and more than $1.3 billion to Fannie Mae on December 31, 2010 to resolve a faulty mortgage loan dispute involving Countrywide Financial Corp.

The $2.6 billion worth of payments to Freddie and Fannie, combined with potential losse on future repurchases from government-sponsored enterprises, adds up to $3 billion in expenses, according to St Louis loan experts.

Bank of America also expects to take an additional $2 billion charge to fourth-quarter results from

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St Louis Home Loans and Mortgage Refinancing: Strategic Default Risk Increases

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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Loan Reduction News: Strategic Default Risk May Increase
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The 2011 housing market started off to a bleak pace.

Home prices were expected to drop another 20 percent before hitting bottom, according to economists at A. Gary Shilling & Company, raising the risk that approximately 39.7 percent of borrowers will simply walk away from their home in a strategic default.

The firm reported in its December Investment Insight that home prices are already 29 percent below their peak in the first quarter of 2006 and fell 2 percent between

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St Louis Home Mortgage and Loan: Federal Reserve Did Not Help Economy

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St Louis Finance Lending and Loan Reduction News: Surprising Financial Turn as Federal Reserve's Policy Helped Stocks And Not Economy
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According to a CNBC Fed Survey in December, the Federal Reserve’s policy to purchase $600 billion of bonds in a program widely known as QE2 has been mostly ineffective at lowering interest rates and will do little to improve the unemployment rate.

The survey of 76 economists, bond and stock traders, and analysts, found about 62 percent saying the Fed’s program has been ineffective at lowering interest rates.

A similar percentage believes the

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