(Source: Bloomberg By Radi Khasawneh) – The six largest U.S. money market funds have eliminated their lending to Italian and Spanish banks, reduced investments in French banks and are favoring Swiss securities for their $511 billion of assets.
(Source: Sign on San Diego by Lily Leung) – Bank of America officials are promising face-to-face time this week to San Diego homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments.
(Source: By Donna Gehrke-White, Sun Sentinel) – Many South Florida homeowners facing foreclosure may believe getting a preliminary loan modification offer from their lender will save them from losing their home. But, in fact, new rules approved by Fannie Mae [...]
(Source: LoanSafe.org By Michael Nazarini) – Working in conjunction with loan modification and disposition analysis software custom created for RESTReportMatters.com, LoanModHelpCenter.com has begun processing loan modifications and short sales with servicers to achieve faster and more efficient answers to loan [...]
NEW YORK/CHARLOTTE (Source: Reuters Ben Berkowitz and Joe Rauch) – Bank of America Corp Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said on Wednesday he often regrets the bank’s 2008 purchase of mortgage lender Countrywide, but the loan losses from that deal will [...]
LONDON (Source: Wall Street Journal)–The cost of borrowing dollars for three-months in the London interbank market rose to a four-month high Thursday, while another barometer of dollar demand hit its most extreme levels since late 2008 on renewed concerns over [...]
(Source: Seattle Times By Drew DeSilver) – Plunging interest rates, a consequence of the turmoil in the stock market, are proving to be a boon for mortgage refinancers. But so far, those low rates aren’t doing much to reignite the [...]
(Source: The News Tribune Posted By C.R. Roberts) – The state Department of Financial Institutions is announcing that it has received complaints from consumers relating to loan modification services that were to be – but were not – provided by [...]
(Source: ABC News) – Government agencies in Western Australia have launched a taskforce to investigate a reported real estate scam – the second of its kind in a year.
(Source: SMH) – A Perth couple who returned home to find their property had been sold without their knowledge or permission might not be the only victims of a real estate scam targeting absent owners.
(Source: In Man News) – A husband-and-wife broker team who specialize in short sales and bank-owned properties can continue to operate their business while they appeal a 10-year suspension of their licenses by Washington regulators.
(Source: The Boston Globe by Rona Fischman) – Mike wrote to me with a question that is on the mind of anyone who owns a condo in a building where there is a short sale or foreclosure.
(Source: By GARY M. SINGER Sun Sentinel) – Question: My townhome has lost about 25 percent of its value. I’m barely managing the payments. Similar homes in my complex are renting at less than half of what I am paying [...]
(Source: By ALAN J. HEAVENS The Philadelphia Inquirer) – Financing a home purchase has become extremely difficult since the housing boom turned to bust. Getting an appraisal to match the price for which one’s lender has preapproved a mortgage can [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Source: University of Florida News) — Economic worries and continued acrimony among lawmakers have claimed yet another casualty: The outlook for real estate markets in Florida declined slightly through the second quarter of 2011, according to a new [...]
(Source: New York Times By KIRK SEMPLE) – Chinese banks have poured more than $1 billion into real estate loans in New York City in the past year. Investors from China are snapping up luxury apartments and planning to spend [...]
(Source: By Jim Puzzanghera and Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times) – Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles— With the real estate market continuing to drag down the economy, federal officials are seeking ideas from investors and others about ways to [...]
(Source: Wall Street Journal By Robbie Whelan) – More signs of cracks are showing in the Washington, D.C. market, which has held up in the last year as the nation’s strongest, according to a report released Wednesday.
(Source: Fox Business) – Confucius say: Beware scorned spouse with shared credit.
NEW YORK (Source: MainStreet By Seth Fiegerman) — The country may still be grappling with the aftermath of the housing bubble’s burst, but one recent report suggests a different bubble may be looming on the horizon: student loans.
(Source: The Hill By Pete Kasperowicz) – A subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee will meet next Tuesday in Newnan, Ga., to hold a field hearing on whether federal guidance on bank lending from Washington is hurting efforts of [...]
(Source: The Wall Street Journal By Amy Or) – Amid a report that Asian banks are reviewing trading and counterparty risks to French banks, Citigroup says it “has not cut credit lines to French banks.”
(Source: Seeking Alpha) – I normally go with the flow, but when it comes to the money center banks like Bank of America (BAC), I’m going to take a very contrarian view. Money center banks are wildly popular with both [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Craig Torres and Cheyenne Hopkins) – Federal Reserve officials are drawing up rules for the largest U.S. banks that won’t be more stringent than global capital standards agreed to in Basel, Switzerland, according to a person familiar [...]
HONG KONG/DUBAI, Aug 10 (Source: Reuters By Denny Thomas and Dinesh Nair) – Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has held exploratory talks with the principal investment funds of Kuwait and Qatar about selling part of its stake in China Construction [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Howard Mustoe and Gavin Finch) – Societe Generale (GLE) SA, which yesterday plunged 15 percent, is among banks being targeted by investors because of its perceived dependence on short-term funding, analysts said.
(Source: NBC Bay Area News) – Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and other prosecutors around the state warned the public Tuesday to watch out for loan modification frauds that prey on distressed homeowners, including scams that target Latino homeowners.
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