Subprime Mortgages

Home buyers should take a close look at adjustable rate mortgage products in the face of a U.S. financial crisis rocked by subprime mortgages comprising mostly ARMs.  

There are other advantages to use subprime mortgage brokers. Some people shy away from this because they know that the broker will charge a fee. What most don't is that many lenders will offer a lower fee to the mortgage broker, ...  

MARK PITTMAN, 52 Reporter foretold effects of subprime mortgage crisisWashington Post... the filmmakers profile subprime borrowers who are losing their homes, mortgage brokers who made loans they knew their customers could never repay and ...and more »  

Photo via First Strung A new report from the Friends of the Earth says that cap and trade systems are dangerous. They allow traders to package emissions permits into complex financial products and sell them in bundles--much like they did with subprime mortgages. And we all know how that went. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger  

An ex-subprime lender employee of a sent us the scripts they used to cold-call homeowners back in 2005 to get them to ditch their 30-year fixed mortgages for risky sub-prime loans. One of them is called, "Wholesale Gangsta Script," which I think about says it all right there.  

More than $200bn of outstanding pay-option adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) originated and securitized from ‘04-’07, according to market commentary by Moody’s Investors Service this week. This sector shows “dismal” performance, with more than 40% of borrowers 60 or more days past due on payments. And many of these loans have yet to experience a recast event, when [...]  

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers who made very, very bad bets on subprime mortgages, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, were found not guilty of securities fraud in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday. The verdict invites a look back at how the history of the financial crisis is being written in real time. William D. Cohan's riveting account of the fall of Bear Stearns, "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall...  

I know, I know. Subprime is so, like, 2007. And most of the financial press has moved onto sexier mortgage words like “option ARMs,” or “FHA loss reserves.” That said, I thought it would be interesting to dive back into subprime waters, taking a granular look at individual deal performance using November remittance data from that [...]  

At the Economic Policy Institute, Gregory D.Squires, Derek S. Hyra and Robert N.Renner write: While there has been widespread recognition that racial minorities are among the hardest hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, racial residential segregation has not been considered a factor behind the crisis in minority communities. Blame is being directed at ill-informed consumers, lax underwriting by loan originators, the failure of regulatory...  

Link: Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Foresaw Subprime Crisis, Dies at 52 - Bloomberg.com. [Woody Guthrie] From the Bloomberg.com Obituary: [...] In 2007, he was writing about the securitization of home loans when subprime borrowers, who have bad or limited credit histories, began missing payments on their mortgages at a faster pace. Pittman’s June 29, 2007, article, headlined “S, Moody’s Hide Rising Risk on $200 Billion of Mortgage Bonds,” was...  

An alert reader recently sent us a copy of a news story that reported: “In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.“ “Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand...  

Performance of ‘04-vintage subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) worsened as prepays increased in a review by Fitch Solutions, despite signs of stabilization among more recent subprime RMBS vintages. Fitch’s ‘04 vintage subprime RMBS price index dropped 16.7% in the most recent month of data, while the overall subprime RMBS price index showed only a “marginal” monthly [...]  

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Subprime lender Start criticised for court actionsIrish IndependentSTART Mortgages has been heavily criticised as it tends to take a large number of repossession actions in the High Court. ...