The FHFA today released the Foreclosure Prevention & Refinance Report for the Third Quarter 2009. This report is intended to provide disclosure and analysis of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan data. It discusses the GSE's loan portfolio size and composition, the performance of the portfolio, and...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said market failure is inhibiting loan modifications and that the Fed may start buying securities to help drive down the mortgage rate. Speaking about the housing market at a conference organized by the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, Bernanke said mortgage foreclosures...
Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to announce a program to help homeowners modify loans and prevent foreclosures , according to the Wall Street Journal, who cited unnamed U.S. officials. The program, expected to be announced at 2 p.m. EST, would be an extension...
Citigroup has joined Morgan Stanley Chase, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC,) and a few other large banks in initiating an aggressive program to mitigate foreclosures of single family homes. The bank said on Monday that it is putting a moratorium on both initiating new foreclosures and...
While the media today focused mostly on the testimony of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan before the Senate Banking Committee, there was other news coming out of the hearing. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairperson Sheila Bair told lawmakers about her plans to use methods pioneered...
Earlier this month a reader, Pamela Norvell, wrote a suggestion for lessening the foreclosure crisis. She suggested a freeze and/or a rollback of interest rates to their original levels. In making her suggesting Ms. Norvell wondered what it was causing lenders to foreclose on properties rather than do...
The Hope Now Alliance , a coalition of 25 of the largest mortgage servicers in the country, released a progress report on Monday on its operations to date. The Alliance came in to being last fall at the urging of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to expedite resolution of the growing number of mortgage...
In a conference call/press conference on Thursday, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors ( CSBS ) released its first report on loss mitigation efforts as reported by 13 major residential mortgage servicers. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller explained that the report grew out of a concern dating back...