OCHN: Orange County Housing Market Update: May 2015

With increasing affordability from falling mortgage rates, expect increasing sales and increasing prices until rates begin to rise.

Each month, I publish housing market reports for most of Southern California. The overview report covering the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San...
Orange County Housing Market Update: May 2015

Mortgage Foreclosure: 97% of strategic defaulters would recommend others do the same

Most people are cautious by nature waiting for others to pioneer new places, new ideas, and new patterns of behavior. People will observe the results of pioneering behavior, and if the pioneers are rewarded and recommend what they did to others, the herd will follow. If the pioneers are...
97% of strategic defaulters would recommend others do the same

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OCHN: NAr"s Lawrence Yun doesn"t understand cloud housing inventory

MLS Inventories are low because underwater owners and those will low equity aren’t listing their homes.

Back in 2011 lenders changed their loss mitigation policies. Rather than foreclosing on delinquent borrowers and selling the subsequent property as REO, banks made two major changes...
NAr"s Lawrence Yun doesn"t understand cloud housing inventory

USA Foreclosure: Appraisers resisted pressure to reflate the housing bubble

You knew the complaints about appraisers was coming, didn’t you? The low supply is generating bidding wars on certain properties, resulting in contract prices far in excess of recent comparable sales. When the appraisal doesn’t support the contract price, the buyer generally cannot...
Appraisers resisted pressure to reflate the housing bubble

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Renter News: Viewing real estate as an investment creates volatility in housing markets

Most people who bought houses during the 00s did so with dreams of riches. Those dreams materialized in laughter for some, tears and financial slaughter for others. Bricks and slaughter Property is widely seen as a safe asset. It is arguably the most dangerous of all, says Andrew Palmer Mar 3rd...
Viewing real estate as an investment creates volatility in housing markets

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USA Housing: Rising interest rates spoiling efforts to reflate the housing bubble

The banks changed their policies radically in early 2012 and opted for can-kicking loan modifications over foreclosure. Their plan was to dry up the MLS inventory, particularly the distressed properties, and rely on record low interest rates to fuel demand. They were very successful. In fact,...
Rising interest rates spoiling efforts to reflate the housing bubble

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OCHN: The risk of stagflation in the US housing market

The combination of weak or falling home prices and a rising cost of ownership is the worst of both worlds in residential real estate.

Stagflation is broadly defined as an economic condition of high inflation and slow growth. Stagflation was last noted in the 1970s when rising oil prices drained...
The risk of stagflation in the US housing market

Real Estate Ruin: Major banks steal from investors in foreclosure settlement

The more we learn about the foreclosure settlement, the more we see how much of a gift to the major banks this agreement really was. First, they no longer have to deal with any liability for their foreclosure practices. Second, they are allowed to credit their losses on short sales against the...
Major banks steal from investors in foreclosure settlement

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Debt Default: New down payment requirements could crash housing again

There are two main barriers to home ownership: how much a potential buyer can borrow, and how much they have to put down. Today, I want to focus on the impact of down payment requirements. There are many more potential buyers with little or no savings than there are those with hundreds of...
New down payment requirements could crash housing again

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Housing Market: Never forget the bulls and bubble deniers were completely and totally wrong

Now that prices are going up again, the bulls are regaining some of their previous smugness, and some are trying to revise history about how wrong they were over the last six years. Today I want to take a look back at the insanity of the housing bubble and remind everyone that when they hear the...
Never forget the bulls and bubble deniers were completely and totally wrong

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OCHN: Future loan terms determine future house prices

Loan terms faced by future homebuyers determine how much they can borrow and how much they can pay for houses purchased today.

One of my earliest posts in May of 2007 was about the impact future loan terms have on future home prices. Most people just assume house prices always go up. Their...
Future loan terms determine future house prices

Real Estate Loan: Lenders will target near-equity squatters for future foreclosures

Banks are letting delinquent borrowers squat rather than foreclosing on them and booting them out. At first, it was a self-preservation measure by the banks taken out of desperation when the first wave of foreclosures caused prices to crash. However, now the banks are content to allow squatting,...
Lenders will target near-equity squatters for future foreclosures

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Also read Renter News, SD Housing News, Housing Bubble News & Information, Housing Market Forecast US, Housing Market News & Information, Real Estate Ruin, USA Housing News, California Real Estate News, Housing Market News, USA Foreclosure News, Mortgage and Foreclosure News, Mortgage Refinance News, Real Estate Loan News, Debt Default News, Ponzi Debt, Loan Modification and Default News, Mortgage News Clips, and Fay Mortgage News.

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