Home Foreclosure Prevention

JPMorgan Chase announced that the bank was set to open more home foreclosure prevention centers for their customers in California later this year.  Chase’s announcement of new California mortgage help centers was received with warm applauds by homeowners that continue to struggle to make their mortgage payments in the one of the nation’s highest cost housing [...]

In a recent article on CNNMoney.com, they discussed the irony of losing your home in to foreclosure and then owing money to the bank for the deficiency.  Many homeowners choose a short sale over a foreclosure or loan modification.  Borrowers like the loan modification option when they want to keep the house.  If they do [...]

A slew of struggling homeowners are coming forward with complaints about the way banks are operating under a federal loan modification program announced last year by the Obama administration. Thousands of American homeowners need help mortgage refinancing or qualifying for a loan modification agreement that would lower the interest rate, like a refinance loan. “You [...]

Banks are now required to extend a lot more than a loan modifications. As a result of the federal Protecting Tenants in Foreclosure Act, states across the country are passing similar legislation that makes home lenders obligated to maintain home foreclosures from the time of the judgment of foreclosure through the closing of the sale. [...]

Freddie Mac said delinquencies in its mortgage portfolio continued to rise last month, putting further pressure on the mortgage giant.  It and larger sibling Fannie Mae were put into conservatorship in September 2008 by the federal government amid fears of mounting losses at the companies. Home loan modifaction plans continued to flood the mortgage market.  [...]

Home foreclosure rates are forecasted to climb through late next year, peaking only after the U.S. unemployment rate reaches 10.2% in the 2nd quarter, the Mortgage Bankers said.  Home foreclosures remain a real problem for the mortgage and housing industries.  “This recession is like a hurricane: You’ve survived the storm and you have a big mess afterwards,” [...]

The delinquency rate on U.S. home loans reached an all-time high in the second quarter, but the pace of growth for the rate slowed, a possible sign the mortgage crisis may be beginning to turn the corner.  Data provided by credit reporting agency Trans Union shows the ratio of mortgage holders who are 60 days [...]

Bloomberg News new recently published an article about home foreclosures continuing to soar even three years after this foreclosure crisis began.  Watch this YouTube video with an interview and discussion with Rick Sharga of the Realty Trac. He talks about the 1.5 million record high foreclosure numbers. Are loan modifications helping or just delaying the [...]

Massachusetts foreclosure petitions in June jumped to 2,835 – more than eight times higher than the 350 petitions in June 2008 and 21.7% higher than the 2,329 filings in May, said the Warren Group, which added that the number of petitions to foreclose in June was the highest it’s been in the previous 13 months.  [...]

Let’s be honest… There can be no denying the fact that the US government is not in favor of forcing homeowners out of their homes, even when they are in home loan default and facing foreclosure. Legislative bodies in Washington, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have taken action with home loan modifications to stem the foreclosure crisis [...]

1.    Unemployment: Celia Chen, an economist at Moody’s Economy.com said, the erosion of the labor market–the unemployment rate recently hit 9.5 percent–is the key factor in the rise of home foreclosures, says “Employers continue to shed jobs, and that makes it difficult for even people with good credit who were doing fine to keep up [...]

California loan modification requests continue to be reported with increasing volumes.  Many California homeowners need jumbo mortgage refinance loans, but they do not qualify as the jumbo lending has tightened significantly. Governor Schwarzenegger implemented another California foreclosure moratorium to help distressed homeowners in his state, but is it helping? Many Wall Street analysts covering the home-builder [...]

Zions Bank and Keller Williams Real Estate are sponsoring an information session on June 9th to inform people about refinancing and loan modification options with President Barack Obama’s Making Home Affordable program.   According to Mike Barnes, most home owners will qualify for some part of the foreclosure prevention program. He calls it exciting and beneficial. [...]

The mortgage loan modification plan aims to help four million borrowers who are behind in their payments or are at risk of default. That includes those who are those suffering serious hardships, declines in income or increases in expenses; facing an interest rate hike; having high mortgage debt compared to income; owing more than their [...]

A Brentwood family who bought their home at the top of the market gets a loan modification, thanks to a persistent ConsumerWatch volunteer, who helped them through the process.  Carolyn Flanery and her husband Bill bought their dream home in Brentwood back in 2005 for $605,000, when the real estate market was booming.  They put [...]