Mortgage Trends
With the news from the Federal Reserve that joblessness is not declining, and in fact is growing, a number of consumers are going to...
By: Staci Baker With the increase in consumer behaviors such as ‘strategic default’, it has become increasingly difficult during the past few years for...
I recently attended a conference where Credit Union managers spoke of the many changes facing their industry in the wake of the real estate...
By: Staci Baker As more people have become underwater on their mortgage, the decision to stay or not stay in their home has evolved...
Since 2007, when the housing and credit crises started to unfold, we’ve seen unemployment rates continue to rise (9.7% in March 2010 *) with...
In the past few days I’ve read several articles discussing how lenders are taking various actions to reduce their exposure to toxic mortgages –...
A recent January 29, 2010 article in the Wall Street Journal * discussing the repurchasing of loans by banks from Freddie Mae and Fannie...
A recent article in the Boston Globe talked about the lack of incentive for banks to perform wide-scale real estate loan modifications due to...
In my previous two blogs, I introduced the definition of strategic default and compared and contrasted the population to other types of consumers with...
In my last blog, I discussed the presence of strategic defaulters and outlined the definitions used to identify these consumers, as well as other...
By: Kari Michel The U.S. government and mortgage lenders have developed various loan modification programs to help homeowners better manage their mortgage debt so that...
By: Tracy Bremmer There has been a lot of hype these days about people strategically defaulting on their mortgage loans. In other words, a...