Don’t be afraid to ask the customer service representative for your mortgage servicer who owns your mortgage. The owner, who is often referred to as the investor, might be different from the servicing company or bank that collects and processes your payments. Lenders often sell off the servicing rights, too. So it is very common […]
Posts Tagged: Central Valley real estate
Today’s New Investor
Today’s new investor, who is helping to save the housing market, is a 36 to 55 year old making $100,000 or less annual income. These are everyday people investing in their local markets, fixing up the properties and intending to rent them until the market improves. Not only does this help revitalize the housing market, […]
Government to Decrease Financial Involvement in Freddie and Fannie
The Obama administration has announced a ‘winding down’ of financial involvement in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at an annual rate of no less than 10% per year. Timothy Geithner predicts it will take three years for the housing market to recover. Then, an additional two to three years for legislators to come to agreement […]
Stockton 2nd in California for January Foreclosure Filings
RealtyTrac’s list of metro markets with the highest foreclosure rates from December to January, was full of California cities holding 7 of the top 10 spots. The cities included Modesto (2), Stockton (3), Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario (4), Vallejo-Fairfield (6), Bakersfield (7), Merced (9) and Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville (10). The monthly increase in California was only 2% however the […]
More Affordable to Buy than Rent in Central Valley
According to Pete Flint, CEO and co-founder of Trulia, it is more affordable to buy than rent right now in 72% of the 50 largest US cities. Trulia released a list of the top ten cities to buy versus rent which includes the cities of Sacramento and Fresno which ranked 7th and 9th respectively. However, […]
Forbes Bayonets Stockton and Central Valley Real Estate
Each year Forbes magazine analyzes the 200 largest U.S. cities and ranks them into their ‘Top Miserable List’. This year, for the first time Forbes introduced housing as one of the criteria, in addition to the previous criteria which included unemployment, weather, taxes, traffic and violent crime. Stockton, in California’s Central Valley, was number one. […]
Slow and Uneven Market Recovery Forecast
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 8,000,000 jobs have been lost in the past few years causing our economy to be at its worst since the Great Depression. According to Ken Rosen, chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, only 1,000,000 new […]
What Are Foreclosure Consultants?
California borrowers need to be careful of fraudulent foreclosure consultants.
Stockton Foreclosure Data Shows Potential Optimistic Trend
Central Valley real estate could show optimistic trends based on Stockton November 2010 foreclosure data.
Readers Rate Local Economy San Joaquin #2 Story of the Year
According to The Record readers, the local economy was the number two story of the year. One factor contributing to the overall economy was the housing market. San Joaquin county was number two in the nation for foreclosures in 2010 but housing prices remained relatively unchanged with an average home price of $181,000.
Short Sales Influence Home Sales In November
Home sales had an uptick in November partly due to an increase in short sales driving down home prices. This helped to influence a rise in sales up 9.2 % over October but still down 8.6% over November of last year. The median home price in San Joaquin is down 4.1% from last year. For […]
Mortgage Rates Up to 6 Month High
Download now or preview on posterous 12 16 10 SB1000142405274870407380457602348.pdf (59 KB) Thirty year mortgage rates have hit a six month high of 5.09% in response to an increase in treasury yields. This is a dramatic turnaround from where rates were only one month ago at 4.17%. This is sobering news for the housing market […]
San Joaquin County 8th in AP Economic Stress Index
Download now or preview on posterous 12 14 10.pdf (22 KB) Ten of the twenty most economically stressed counties in the nation are in California according to the Associated Press. San Joaquin ranks eighth followed by Stanislaus and Merced respectively. High foreclosure rates and continued unemployment contributed to the San Joaquin ranking. The ranking is […]
Bank of America Restarting Foreclosures
Download now or preview on posterous 12 09 10.pdf (85 KB) Bank of America has restarted 16,000 foreclosures but it is still unknown if judges will be satisfied with their assessment of the pending files. Other banks such as Wells Fargo and Chase have also attempted to restart their foreclosures. The approach focuses primarily on […]
Investment Fraud Involves 13 From Central Valley
Download now or preview on posterous 12 07 10.pdf (28 KB) Thirteen Central Valley residents were arrested related to a national investigation into investment fraud schemes. These schemes deliberately targeted the investing public. Just the latest headline to remind us that fraud is prevalent in this difficult real estate market. One way to help avoid […]
Advanced Mortgage Payments – To Pay Or Not To Pay
Download now or preview on posterous 11 30 10.pdf (60 KB) Generally speaking, when you make mortgage payments in advance, you can do one of two things. You can either apply extra payments to the principal, which will reduce interest costs over the life of the loan or you can apply extra payments against future […]
Impact of Foreclosure Suspensions on Central Valley Foreclosures
Download now or preview on posterous I.pdf (25 KB) According to the CVBT the recent foreclosure suspensions had little impact on the actual sales of foreclosed homes in California. However, the CEO of ForeclosureRadar speculates that the suspensions may lead to future scams claiming to overturn foreclosed properties. Overall foreclosure filings dropped slightly just after […]
California October Foreclosures are Down
RealtyTrac, has reported that 66,475 properties foreclosed in California this October. That is down nearly 12% from September and 22% from last October. However even with the drop in overall reported foreclosures, Modesto and Stockton still remain in the top 5 cities nationwide for foreclosures. Although this downward trend has been consistent over the past […]
Oakdale Vandals and Squatters – Examples of Central Valley Problem
Download now or preview on posterous http___www.oakdaleleader.pdf (16 KB) Over the last year, the city of Oakdale’s police department has received 164 calls related to disturbances at vacant properties. Many of those calls were to report vandals or squatters but other common violations include trespassing, theft and drug dealing. This problem is not unique to […]
Central Valley Foreclosure Rates Down From Last August
Download now or preview on posterous 11 02 10.pdf (26 KB) CoreLogic reported that Stockton foreclosures rate was 4.41% this August, down from last year’s rate of 5.41%. Stockton’s mortgage delinquency rate also decreased with 14.87% at 90 days or more delinquent down from 15.72% a year ago. This is all good news, but Stockton […]
Mortgage Rates at Fifty Year Lows – Good Time to Invest in Central Valley Real Estate
According to Freddie Mac, 30 year fixed mortgage rates declined to 4.19% and 15 year rates are at 3.62%. These are the lowest rates on record since the beginning of tracking such data, in 1971. Some experts have said we would have to look back approximately 50 years to see similar mortgage interest rates. With […]
San Joaquin First In and Last Out of Recession
Download now or preview on posterous 09 21 10.pdf (47 KB) Expert economists announced on September 20th that the recession ended in June 2009. This is good news for the country, but not all areas are benefitting at the same rate of progress. Due to ongoing unemployment struggles faced by California and the valley, analysts […]
The Good News and the Bad News for San Joaquin
Real estate market analysts have been hard at work crunching the latest round of numbers but what does it all mean? Wednesday the news looked optimistic for San Joaquin when it was reported that the area experienced a second quarter decline in foreclosures despite the fact that Stockton still remained 96th in the nation for […]
A Plan to Bail Out Those With Negative Equity
Download now or preview on posterous 09 09 10.pdf (90 KB) Keith Gumbinger, a vice president at HSH Associates mortgage consulting firm, has proposed a new mortgage relief program he calls “value gap coverage.” In this plan, he proposes that if a borrower did not cause the decline in their home’s value, and has been […]
Mortgage Rates Drop to New Low Record
Download now or preview on posterous 09 02 10.pdf (16 KB) Freddie Mac reports that the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to another record low at 4.32%. The new 15 year fixed rate also dropped to 3.83%. These new record breaking rates show hope for a struggling housing market since the expiration […]