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July 2010 – Updated Government Loan Modification Stats

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Since I was a little late on the June stats, I already have the July 2010 number for the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) ready to go. Successful Completions are at 421,804, up from 389,000 in June Program Drop-outs are at 630,000, up from 530,000 in June. The program now has a dropout ...

Loan Modification Failures Officially Tip the Scale in May

Monday, June 21st, 2010

If you remember from April... (http://www.therealestateledger.com/2010/05/loan-modification-program-has-nearly-as-many-failures-as-successes/): Over 1.2 million Americans have started the government backed Loan Modification Program, of which 299,000 homeowners (25%) have completed the process and 277,000 (23%) have been dropped. The number of homeowners dropping out has increased from 155,000 the prior month, leaving me to believe that ...

Alleviating the Short Sale Headaches

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Just some quick updates on the short sale process: The government will pay to move you out - the Obama administration will be giving $3,000 for moving expenses for homeowners who complete a short sale or agree to turn the deed over to the lender The banks will know the offer they'll accept - lenders ...

Loan Modification Program has nearly as many Failures as Successes

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Over 1.2 million Americans have started the government backed Loan Modification Program, of which 299,000 homeowners (25%) have completed the process and 277,000 (23%) have been dropped. The number of homeowners dropping out has increased from 155,000 the prior month, leaving me to believe that next month will have more ...

10 Ways To Sell Your Home FASTER

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Article courtesy of Our Island Real Estate: No matter how long your home lingers unsold, you can comfort yourself that at least you're not Mark Twain. The celebrated author put his Hartford, Conn., home on the market for $60,000 in 1901, according to biographer Fred Kaplan. Despite repeated markdowns, the elaborate house ...

Home Prices Rise for 8th Straight Month

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose .3 percent from December 2009 to January 2010, the eighth straight month of gains. While the gains have been moderate, the index is up 4% from the bottom in May 2009 yet still down 30% from the peak in May 2006. The ...

Wow! One in Four Homes is Underwater

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

One in every four homeowners in the United States is 'underwater', meaning they owe more on the home than it's actually worth. And you can expect that number to rise. It's actually amazing to believe that such a high number of houses fall into this category. It was recently estimated that ...

Re: Loan Modifications Falling Short of Goal

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Back in July I wrote this: http://www.therealestateledger.com/2009/07/loan-modifications-falling-short-of-goal/ UPDATE: A New York Times article is pronouncing the Making Home Affordable program... a failure. Initiated by the Obama Administration earlier this year, the program intended to modify the mortgage payments of distressed homeowners so they would be able to afford and continue to live ...

Home Prices Rise for 5th Straight Month

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Home prices rose again but in only 11 of the 20 regions tracked by the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index. The index is off of it's lows from May of this year but is still well below it's all-time highs in April 2006. On Monday it was reported that ...

Loan Modifications Falling Short of Goal

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

As expected (by myself, not the Obama camp), the housing initiative that allows borrowers to modify their home loans to avoid foreclosure is not going so well. The original goal was set at helping out between 3 and 4 million homeowners. Everyone cheered at the proposal and the 'promise' but ...