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HOUSING PRICE DROP TOPS GREAT DEPRESSION AND IS GOING LOWER

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Great Depression showed us that housing prices could drop 25.9%. The Great “recession” has now passed that drop and so far, has fallen 26%. There IS a difference however. In the run up to the Great Depression loose capital combined with other factors sent asset prices upward, but if you look at Schiller and Case Schiller Analysis you see four differences graphically.

The first difference is that in the time leading up to the Great Depression real banks were lending real money and therefore they had the constraint of risk on their own capital. Liars loans didn’t exist. It always was up to the bank’s underwriters to confirm every fact or representation made by or on behalf of the borrower, who incidentally didn’t use mortgage brokers because mortgage brokers, for the most part, didn’t exist. In the time leading up to the Great Recession, there were no real banks taking real risks. Whoever was named as payee on the note never handled the money much less funded it. Whoever was named as lender on the mortgage or deed of trust suffered the same impairment.  Mortgage brokers were sent out in virtual armies with minimal training other than scripted sales pitches.

  • Thus without any risk of loss on the loans and the business model being that the “loan originator” would merely present itself as the lender in exchange for a fee, and there being no underwriting process for which anyone could point their finger at and make a claim the object changed from making good loans that would enhance the income and balance sheet of the party representing itself at closing as the lender, to a different business model: get all the people you can regardless of qualifications to sign loan papers.
  • In Florida these armies of “Loan counselors” or mortgage brokers included 10,000 convicted felons — so it was obvious that Wall Street wanted. The lender identified by the mortgage broker was usually not the lender identified on the closing papers and the lender on the closing papers was not the lender who advanced the money to fund the loan.

The second difference is that the run up didn’t get much out of standard territory in relation to median income adjusted for inflation. It peaked for sure and back then it was considered an extraordinary peak, but it didn’t come close to the run-up in prices preceding the Great Recession.

The third difference is that there was no specific correlation between housing prices and target markets for Wall Street backed mortgages. In fact, there were no Wall Street backed mortgages. So the decline was felt throughout the country, some parts more than others. The types of mortgages available were limited to what you could count on one hand in the time preceding the Great Depression. The number of mortgage “flavors” preceding he Great recession burgeoned to over 400 different kinds of mortgages — a number that baffled Alan Greenspan along with mortgage brokers, borrowers and those who assisted borrowers at closing. The same stack of papers were thrown at the borrower at closing — but only in size and form — the content of those papers was very different from borrower to borrower.

And the fourth difference is that rampant falsely inflated appraisals were absent in the Great Depression but the cornerstone of the Great Recession.

So the takeaway idea in this article is that the whole securitization scheme was a scam that artificially raised the APPARENT housing prices in entire geographical areas that had been targeted by Wall Street. Thus the “decline” in prices is merely a correction to come back in line with median income which has been stagnating for 30+ years. And THAT is why I say that principal reduction is unnecessary. It is a PRINCIPAL CORRECTION back to reality and away from the fraudulent claims at closing and all the way up the securitization chain.

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Housing Market Slips Into Depression Territory

By: Cindy Perman
CNBC.com Staff Writer

As the economy revs back to life, with signs of hiring on the horizon, the housing market is being left behind like Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone.”

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In the past few years, we’ve all been careful to choose our words carefully, not calling it a recession until it fit the technical definition and avoiding any inappropriate use of the “D” word — Depression.

Things were bad but the broader economy never reached Depression territory. The housing market, on the other hand, just crossed that threshold.

Home values have fallen 26 percent since their peak in June 2006, worse than the 25.9-percent decline seen during the Depression years between 1928 and 1933, Zillow reported.

November marked the 53rd consecutive month (4 ½ years) that home values have fallen.

What’s worse, it’s not over yet: Home values are expected to continue to slide as inventories pile up, and likely won’t recover until the job market improves.

And while the president is physically protected in an emergency, whisked to a bunker at an undisclosed location, the actual White House is not: The value of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has dropped by $80 million, or nearly 25 percent since the peak of the housing boom. It’s current value is $251.6 million, according to Zillow, down from $331.5 million.

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Recent Massachusetts High Court Ibanez Ruling Leaves Question On 3rd Party Bona Fide Purchaser Unanswered (Or Did It?) (via Foreclosureblues)

Thursday, January 13, 2011 Recent Massachusetts High Court Ibanez Ruling Leaves Question On 3rd Party Bona Fide Purchaser Unanswered (Or Did It?) One question that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the recent Ibanez ruling left unanswered is noted in this excerpt from Justice Robert J. Cordy's concurring opinion, with whom Justice Margot Botsford joined: What is more complicated, and not addressed in this opinion, because the issue was … Read More

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2010 – The year foreclosurefraud makes case law! (via Foreclosureblues)

2010 - The year foreclosurefraud makes case law! 2010 – The year foreclosurefraud makes case law! Today, January 13, 2011, 40 minutes ago | Rob Harrington Hat tip Catherine. Huffington Post/Randall Wray Randall states: As I have been arguing in a series of pieces (see here and here and here), in their haste to commit lender fraud, the banks that securitized mortgages also perpetrated tax fraud and securities fraud. The inevitable outcome of those frauds is foreclosure fraud. As Lynn Szymoniak a … Read More

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Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks (via Foreclosureblues)

Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks Thursday, January 13, 2011 Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks   The Wall Street Journal noted last week: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday ruled out a central bank bailout of state and local governments strapped with big municipal debt burdens, saying the Fed had limited legal authority to help and little will to use that authority. "We have no expectatio … Read More

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Third Way Comments on Foreclosure Fraud Policy in the Post-Ibanez Landscape (via Foreclosureblues)

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Unemployed homeowners up to $18,000 each over six months to pay their mortgage

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On Monday, more than two months behind schedule, the California Housing Finance Agency will begin taking applications for a federally funded program that will give some unemployed homeowners up to $18,000 each over six months to pay their mortgage.

To qualify, homeowners must meet income and other restrictions and their loan servicer must participate in the program. As of Friday, only three servicers had signed up, but CalHFA expects to have up to 10 by the end of this week.

The program is the first of four in California that will be financed by the Hardest Hit Fund, a $7.6 billion pot of money the Treasury Department is providing to 18 states with high unemployment rates or big drops in housing prices.

The Obama administration announced the fund in February but kept adding states and money to it throughout last year. California was one of the first states to qualify and stands to receive almost $2 billion, but has not yet launched a program.

The other three CalHFA programs, which go under the umbrella name Keep Your Home California, will:

— Give homeowners who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments up to $15,000 to reinstate them.

— Reduce principal balances by up to $50,000 for borrowers who owe more than their homes are worth.

— Provide up to $5,000 in transition assistance to homeowners who give up their homes in connection with a short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure.

A homeowner might qualify for more than one program, but can’t get more than $50,000 in total assistance.

CalHFA had promised to start taking applications for all four programs Nov. 1, but each one requires loan servicers to participate and their assistance has not been easy to get, even though lenders stand to benefit.

That’s partly because each state getting hardest-hit funds can design its own program and that has created administrative burdens for national servicers.

“They have asked us to have a unified process,” says Evan Gerberding, a spokeswoman for CalHFA.

Unemployment program

California’s unemployment assistance program, which begins Monday, has many requirements.

— You must be receiving unemployment benefits, but you can not be within 90 days of exhausting them.

— Your income must be 120 percent or less of the median income for a family of four in your county. In San Francisco, your income must be $119,300 or less. For other counties, see sfg.ly/g58tX0.

— Your loan must have originated on or before Jan. 1, 2009, and the balance cannot exceed $729,750.

— You must be delinquent or at risk of becoming delinquent, but you can’t be in foreclosure or more than three months past due.

— You must live in the home or condo, and you cannot own any other real estate.

— You will not qualify if you refinanced your mortgage for more than the outstanding balance (except to pay for mortgage-related fees). If you refinanced just to get a lower rate, you will not be disqualified.

— If you have a stand-alone second mortgage, such as a home equity loan or line of credit, you will not qualify.

Homeowners can get up to $3,000 per month or 100 percent of their mortgage payment, whichever is less, for up to six months.

The assistance will be structured as a non-recourse, non-interest-bearing lien against the property that is forgiven after three years. If you default on your payments, sell or refinance within three years, you might have to repay it.

To apply, contact your servicer or call a toll-free number that CalHFA will post on its website by Monday. If you call the number, a housing counselor will help determine if you are eligible and if so, work with your servicer. For more information, see keepyourhomecalifornia.org.

Other programs

As of Friday, only three servicers – Chase, CalVet and CalHFA itself – had signed up for the unemployment assistance program.

Representatives for Chase, Wells Fargo and CitiMortgage say they will participate in California’s unemployment assistance and mortgage reinstatement programs but have no immediate plans to sign up for the other two.

A spokesman for Bank of America would not say which if any of the California programs BofA will sign up for. In a statement, BofA said it supports the Hardest Hit Fund concept but it will “focus our collaborative efforts on implementing consistent programs nationally.”

Gerberding says CalHFA hopes to launch the other programs in mid to late February.

Getting lenders into the principal reduction plan could be a challenge because they must match any reductions the program provides dollar for dollar.

“Where principal reduction is appropriate, we are focusing on the HAMP principal reduction alternative,” Wells Fargo spokesman Tom Goyda says, referring to a new option under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program. “That allows us to do principal reductions in all 50 states.”

Under that program, Wells is only reducing principal on loans it owns, not those it services for others, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Fannie and Freddie have not allowed principal reductions on loans they own or back – and these account for the majority of home loans. (They have allowed principal to be reduced for the purposes of calculating a modified mortgage payment, but this principal is not forgiven.)

Whether Fannie and Freddie can permanently reduce principal under state hardest hit programs “is under review,” says a spokeswoman for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie.

TARP funding

CalHFA has allocated $875 million of its hardest hit funds for unemployment assistance, $790 million for principal reduction, $129 million for mortgage reinstatement and $32 million for transition assistance.

If one program does not use all of its funding, “then we will spread it among the others,” Gerberding says. She estimates that funds could be available for up to three years.

Hardest hit funds are coming out of the $50 billion set aside for foreclosure prevention under the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Although funding for new TARP programs ended in October, “existing programs already allocated under TARP will continue to run,” says Treasury Department spokeswoman Andrea Risotto.

Risotto says that 12 states that have received hardest hit funds are testing or operating programs. By March, she says, all 18 states, plus the District of Columbia, will be operational.

For more information on the Hardest Hit Fund, see finan cialstability.gov/roadtostabil ity/hardesthitfund.html.

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California 2923.5 does not work for homeowners

Laws in California and with the recent ruling on Mabry v. Superior Court Docket Sup.Ct. Docket Mabry on June 2,201o and other states requiring mortgage companies to talk to troubled homeowners before foreclosing on them are toothless, according to a study released Wednesday.

The National Consumer Law Center, which analyzed programs in 14 states, said they have failed to help homeowners stave off foreclosure because they lack sanctions or accountability for banks.

“There is as yet no data to confirm that foreclosure-mediation programs anywhere have led to a substantial number of affordable and sustainable loan modifications,” the report said. “The existing programs routinely fail to impose significant obligations on mortgage servicers (without which) it is unlikely that mediations will lead to fewer foreclosures.”

Geoff Walsh, a staff attorney at the Boston law center who wrote the report, said in a conference call that the programs’ potential is in jeopardy.

“While these programs could provide significant help to homeowners, they suffer from the same lack of industry accountability that has plagued the voluntary federal programs that have sought to encourage large-scale modifications over the past two years,” he said.

California’s foreclosure-mediation law says mortgage servicers cannot file a notice of default until 30 days after they have contacted delinquent borrowers by phone, in person or via certified letter “to assess the borrower’s financial situation and explore options for the borrower to avoid foreclosure.”

The law took effect in September 2008 and immediately slowed down the foreclosure process. However, once the system was in place, the number of foreclosures returned to previous levels, according to public records.

Other states have enacted similar requirements as scores of borrowers nationwide have fallen behind on mortgage payments. In August, 7.58 percent of American mortgage holders were at least 30 days delinquent on their home loans.

Walsh laid out some changes that he said would make state programs more effective. They included: requiring banks to show the cost of a foreclosure versus the cost of a loan modification; requiring proof of who actually owns the loan; imposing sanctions on banks that don’t negotiate in good faith; and requiring banks to prove they considered alternatives to foreclosure such as loan modifications, short sales and government-assistance programs. The report recommended that a mediator or court certify bank compliance with those requirements before allowing a foreclosure to proceed.

‘Everything we can’

Jason Menke, a spokesman for Wells Fargo, declined to comment directly on the report, but said: “We’re doing everything we can to reach out to customers very early in delinquency proactively.” Walsh characterized the implementation of loan-modification efforts, including the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, as haphazard and chaotic, and said homeowners “have been confused and rebuffed in their efforts to talk to individuals who are authorized” to help with loan modifications.

Graeme Card of San Pablo said he experienced frequent rebuffs in his efforts to contact Wells Fargo about the mortgage on his condo. He paid $402,000 for the unit and owes $381,000, though it is now worth about $200,000. His loan payments will go up next year, and because of medical expenses from an injury, he’s already cash-strapped.

Card, 38, a scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, said that in January, he started to call, fax and write Wells seeking a loan modification or short sale. “I got fed up with the delaying tactics of the bank, (which) refused to give me an answer, despite numerous documented promises,” he said.

In May, he stopped paying his mortgage.

“When I couldn’t get any traction with the bank, I said I’ll stop paying and it will make them sit up and take notice,” he said.

Better to walk away?

Like an increasing number of borrowers, he also made the calculation that he’s so far upside-down that he may be better off walking away unless his loan principal is reduced in line with his home’s current value.

“I’m paying into a massive hole of the $200,000 that it is underwater,” he said. “No matter how much I paid, I could never make any headway on that. I worked out it would be maybe 14 or 15 years to get back to the price at which I bought it ($401,000).”

Regarding Card, Wells’ Menke said: “It’s clearly a difficult situation, similar to what a number of our customers are facing. We understand that, that’s why we want to make sure we exhaust every option we can before we look at liquidation.”

 

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