Latest News in Mortgages Home Loans – Feb 15, 2008

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Reports Annual and Quarterly …
Forbes – The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco delivers low-cost funding and other services that help member financial institutions make home mortgage loans to people of all income levels and provide credit that supports neighborhoods and communities …

MBIA, Ambac Rescue May Be Set Before Downgrades, Dinallo Says
Bloomberg – The insurers are reeling from their expansion beyond municipal debt to CDOs, which repackage assets such as mortgage bonds and buyout loans into new securities with varying risk. Concern that MBIA and Ambac may lose their top rankings has …

Bush Finally Found a Good `Ad Man’ in Paulson: Caroline Baum
Bloomberg – It was created specifically by GMAC/ResCap to provide foreclosure prevention counseling to its clients. (Someone was prescient about the mortgage mess!) Borrowers who took out loans they didn’t understand to buy houses they couldn’t …

Freddie Mac Eases Mortgage Insurer Capital Rules (Update2)
Bloomberg – Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Freddie Mac, the second-largest provider of money for U.S. home loans, will purchase loans covered by mortgage insurers that don’t meet the company’s standards for the amount of capital backing their policies. Freddie Mac’s …

Freddie Mac Gives Mortgage Insurers a Break
CNBC – Mortgage insurance is generally required on loans made to home buyers who put up less than 20 percent of the purchase price in a down payment. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cannot buy the loans without insurance. That rule should force mortgage insurers …

A rush to refinance
Baltimore Sun – That’s when home sales skyrocketed, lenders offered scores of subprime loans to people who often couldn’t afford the bills, and mortgage professionals were so busy it was tough to get them on the telephone. “We’re having to deal with higher-credit …

Standard & Poor’s downgrades Radian Group, may downgrade other …
CNBC – Radian Group writes insurance policies that cover missed payments on home loans. As more people miss payments on their mortgages, more lenders are submitting claims to mortgage insurers. S&P expects Radian Group to pay more in claims than the company …

Local and national home sales are horrid
St. Petersburg Times – Sales of existing homes fell in 45 states during the October-December quarter, and the home price … Lawrence Yun, the trade group’s chief economist, blamed price declines on mortgage problems that mushroomed last fall, making loans more expensive for …

Morgan Stanley Sells First Commercial Mortgage Security of 2008

Bloomberg – As prices tumble for securitized debt backed by everything from government- guaranteed student loans to subprime mortgage bonds, investors may be dissuaded from buying even if defaults don’t rise. “This is the first deal of the year, and …

Generation Y seeking home ownership
News.com.au – … found their focus has shifted towards tomorrow, particularly in relation to home … Generation Y loans have also risen in value by 28 per cent – from an average of … For the mortgage industry, the news that Generation Y has around the same weekly …

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