The New Mortgage Dynamics and the Anatomy of a Pay Option ARM Borrower. 850,000 Option ARMs Still Outstanding and 40 Percent in Distress. 4 Reasons to Walk Away from your Option ARM.
It is hard to believe that 13 percent of all mortgages are either in foreclosure or some other form of distress. This can stem from a missed payment from an unexpected job loss or mounting pressure of servicing current debt. To a large degree the allure of the option ARM product came from the ability [...]
Housing’s Treacherous Path: From 44 Percent Homeownership to 70 Percent. The Levittown Dream and Nothing Down Madness. How a Nation lost its way with Homeownership.
It is a fascinating case study in the perceived power of homeownership that even after our economy was brought to its economic knees by a massive housing bubble that the government, Wall Street, home buyers, and sellers somehow view homeownership as our ticket to getting out of the financial mess. That is, the housing poison [...]
California Housing Inventory Mystery: 206,000 Homes on MLS but is the Real Inventory 412,000 or closer to 618,000?
It is probably one of the least desirable tasks to undertake but if we are to understand the California housing market we need to look at the entire state current inventory level. Now having access to the MLS gives us a general sense of the overall number of homes on the market but it does [...]