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The Motley Fool
February 1, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Why We Care About Idiot Homeowners There are broad repercussions from homeowners who walk away from their homes.   |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Dangerously Delaying the Inevitable In order to help the economy recover, the Obama administration relaxes the requirements for government-backed mortgage modifications. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Are Homeowners Idiots? There's nothing that confuses economists more than people not acting in their own best interest by continuing to pay a large mortgage on a devalued house. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The $215 Billion Hole in the Housing Market Underwater homeowners and the looming debt bomb. |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Fixing Housing: Easier Said Than Done Ever since 2007, there's been a push from both private executives and public policy makers to do more, tweaking every knob in an attempt to end the housing slump sooner rather than later. |
BusinessWeek
May 6, 2010
Jody Shenn |
Mortgages: Strategic Defaults Are On the Rise By not making mortgage payments on "underwater" homes, borrowers may be paradoxically helping to boost the economy. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Take This Mortgage and Shove It! New research could show a way to curb strategic foreclosures. Could attending to homeowners' emotional needs be the answer to the problem of strategic foreclosures? |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Prudence Just Ain't FHA's Thing Raise down payment requirements may be a good idea. Factors that assign prime borrower status -- such as credit scores, monthly payments, and income -- aren't nearly as conducive to foreclosure as whether a homeowner owes more than their home is worth. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The New Subprime All you have to do is drop the sub. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan A little "straight talk" on the candidate's mortgage proposal. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2010
John Rosevear |
A Savvy Move by Deadbeat Homeowners Why confounding your credit rater might be an excellent strategy. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Defaulting Homeowners Finally Pay the Price Don't expect another crack at the American Dream. Last week, Fannie Mae decided that it had had enough of the "strategic default" phenomenon. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Are Homeowners About to Hit the Lottery? Rumors are that the Obama administration is about to order lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Biggest Failure of the Year Mortgage modification re-defaults -- modified loans that fall back into default -- are quite high. And not just a little high, not just annoyingly high, but horrifyingly high. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Can You Really Just Walk Away? Giving up on your mortgage and letting the bank foreclose on your property might seem easy, but how smart is it? |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2012
Dan Caplinger |
Why This Mortgage Move Is a Bad Idea The rumored proposal to allow refinancing doesn't address the true problem. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Morgan Housel |
You Call This a Cure? Cure rates on mortgage delinquencies have fallen off a cliff. Why is that, and what does it mean for banks? |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Where Bank of America Gets It Right The smartest thing it's done in years. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
The Last Straw for Suffering Homeowners A spike in mortgage rates threatens any chance of a housing recovery. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Homeowners Free-Riding on the Bank's Dime Foreclosed on, but still happily at home. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Gopal & Shenn |
Forecast: A Milder Mortgage Meltdown Low interest rates have helped defuse the option ARM time bomb. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Last Call for Smart Homeowners The Fed's recent move has triggered a sharp downtick in mortgage rates. If you want to refinance, it may be now or never. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Picture of the Day: Consumers and Their Credit Cards Have a look at this chart of outstanding revolving credit (almost all of which is credit card debt) over the past eight years. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2009
Morgan Housel |
3 Reasons Mortgage Modifications Are Failing Want a mortgage modification? Cross your fingers, and don't expect a lot of help from banks. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Let's Stop the Housing Crisis Once and for All It's hard to believe how easily it all could have been prevented. By simply following an old-fashioned standard for taking out a mortgage loan |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2004
Chris Mallon |
In Your Best Interest Rising home prices make interest-only mortgages a popular tool for homebuyers. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
2009: The Year Borrowers Got a Clue There are increasingly encouraging signs that fiscal responsibility may be a trend that lasts beyond the end of the recession. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
A Jumbo Opportunity Interest rates on jumbo mortgages rose nearly half a percentage point in August, even as regular mortgage rates were mostly coming down. Is it time to raise the jumbo loan amount minimum? |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Cut Off ARMs to Spite Your Face Mortgage products aren't the problem. Borrowers are. Used correctly, option ARMs provide flexibility that can be extremely helpful to borrowers whose cash flow isn't steady and predictable. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Housing's Silent Victim Housing's silent victim is the impact it's had on job mobility. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2009
Russ Krull |
Banking on Clues From the FHA FHA funds report sheds some light on mortgage performance. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Should You Pay Down Your Mortgage? Many people are doing it, but is it the smartest move? |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Could This Prevent Another Housing Blowup? A house is not an investment -- it's a place to live, and nothing more. Artificially supporting a degree of risk that encourages failure is nuts, since homes are incapable of innovating into anything beyond what they've always been. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Housing: Now Actually Cheap Prices are back to normal. Just don't think that's the end of the housing story. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Why Getting a Mortgage Will Never Be the Same Lots of changes are happening to the mortgage market. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Why You Should Still Fear the Housing Market Don't count on the housing market continuing to show signs of life. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie Are Dead. What's Next? Housing, sans Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Falling Into the Subprime Trap If any good comes from the bursting of the housing bubble, it will be that homeowners and borrowers may act more responsibly about buying property and taking on mortgage debt. |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2011
Morgan Housel |
A New Black Eye for Housing Revised sales and inventory data could paint a bleaker picture. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
A Jumbo Problem for Housing Limits on loans by Congress will hurt hard-hit high-end housing markets. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Coy & Miller |
Is A Housing Bubble About To Burst? As rising rates in the U.S. send mortgage payments higher, demand may cool. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Can We Handle Another 22% Drop in Real Estate Prices? That's exactly what some government estimates predict. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Paulson to Fannie and Freddie Investors: Drop Dead The Treasury secretary's plans to nationalize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will wipe out investors. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Where Will Housing Prices Go Next? It's all in the numbers. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2010
Morgan Housel |
What the Most Important Statistic Says About Our Recovery A closer look at debt-to-income ratios. |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
Karen Weise |
States Test Mortgage Principal Write-Downs Some economists say home-loan forgiveness is the key to a real estate rebound. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Is the Housing ATM Reopening? Many seniors will be glad to hear what a number of lending institutions are saying about reverse mortgages. They are getting less expensive. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Homeowners Hit the Lottery Of all the government measures to right the economy, is President Obama's plan to aid homeowners the most irresponsible to date? |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Your Smartest Money Move for 2012 If you have a high-interest mortgage, get rid of it. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Citigroup's Shameful About-Face on Mortgage Mods Beware this misguided effort to stop foreclosures. |
