St Louis Finance Lending and Mortgage Loan: Foreclosures Up Delinquencies Down

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Principal Loan Reduction News: MBA Said Foreclosures Up Delinquencies Down
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The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.22 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010.

This was a decrease of 91 basis points from the third quarter of 2010, and a decrease of 125 basis points from one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) National Delinquency Survey.

The non-seasonally adjusted delinquency rate decreased 46 basis points to 8.93 percent this quarter from 9.39 percent last quarter as seen by St Louis finance and loan experts.

The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started

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St Louis Lending and Mortgage Refinancing Loan: ARMs Are Definitely Back

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St Louis Finance Lending and Mortgage Loan News: Adjustable Rate Mortgages Are Back
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After accounting for nearly 70 percent of all mortgages issued during the boom, adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) vanished during the bust, totaling just 3 percent of the market in 2009.

Now they make up 5 percent of all mortgages issued, and Freddie Mac predicts 10 percent by December according to St Louis lending experts.

Behind the comeback is a simple fact:

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St Louis Home Mortgage and Loan Reduction: US Postal Service Feeling The Crunch

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St Louis Finance and Refinancing Loan News: US Postal Service In Financial Trouble
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 The U.S. Postal Service (USPS), a self-supporting government agency that receives no tax dollars, said it suffered a loss of $329 million in the first quarter of federal fiscal year 2011. That was compared with a loss of $297 million a year earlier.

The agency has been suffering from an ongoing decline in mail volume, which has undercut revenues, while

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St Louis Mortgage Lending and Refinancing Loan: Mixed Reviews On Revised Housing Plan

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St Louis Finance Lending and Mortgage Loan News: Reaction To Housing Plan By Obama Administration Mixed
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The Obama administration's reform plan for the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has drawn some praise and some criticism from the mortgage financial market as well as some ho-hums according to the St Louis mortgage lending community.

Among the concepts: "We are gratified to see that one of the concepts they articulate closely tracks MBA's proposal, released 18 months ago, that visualizes a workable, commonsense

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St Louis Home Loan and Mortgage Lending: Fannie and Freddie Out

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St Louis Finance and Loan News: Fannie and Freddie Recommended To Be Phased Out
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 There are new reports coming from the White House stating that the Obama administration has issued a White Paper strongly recommending the gradual elimination of government-sponsored mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac according to St Louis mortgage brokers.

It has included three different options for reducing the role the U.S. government plays in the

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St Louis Commercial Mortgage and Loans: Mortgage Industry Recovery At Least A Year Away

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Principal Loan Reduction News: Housing Recovery May Be A Year Away?
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 According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BOAML) strategists, the hoped for recovery for home prices appears to be still more than a year away and most St Louis mortgage brokers agree.

"Currently, our view is toward the

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Home Loan Mortgage: Shadow Inventory Pushes Foreclosures

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St Louis Finance and Mortgage Broker News: Shadow Inventory Will Push Foreclosures
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 Two reports from separate credit rating agencies are drawing the same conclusion and that is foreclosures will reach new heights in 2011, even after setting records in 2010 according to St Louis finance experts.

"DBRS expects foreclosure filings and completed foreclosures to reach record levels in 2011 as alternatives such as modifications for seriously delinquent borrowers

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St Louis Mortgage Loan and Refinancing Loan: Market Bears 30 Percent Of Foreclosures

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St Louis Finance and Principal Loan Reduction News: Only 30 Percent Of Foreclosures On The Housing Market
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RealtyTrac Senior Vice President Rick Sharga said major banks currently hold roughly 1 million REO, or homes repossessed through foreclosure, but only 30 percent have actually made it onto the market.

According to its year-end report, foreclosure filings reached a new high in 2010 and should climb even higher this year, possibly surpassing 4 million filings according to several St Louis mortgage brokers.

And that's not counting the more than 5 million delinquent loans that have yet to enter the

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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Home Loan Mortgage: Higher Credit Card Rates

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St Louis Finance and Loan News: Credit Card Rates At All Time High
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 Current interest rates for credit cards are now hovering near record highs, at an average rate of 14.72 percent.

And if your credit is bad enough, you could even end up with a rate as high as 59.9 percent APR.

That's because while the CARD Act helped

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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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