Subprime Loans Going From Boon to Housing Bane
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Minority homeowners are especially being hurt as rising interest rates make subprime loans even more expensive.
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As lenders tighten their standards more Americans chose to rent, not own. That's good news for landlords.
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The problems of subprime loans hint at broader risks in financial markets.
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It takes a special kind of cheek to ask investors at this moment to fund a new company specializing in subprime residential mortgage loans.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to increase their funding of mortgages for low- and moderate-income home buyers, under a new rule the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced yesterday.
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As problems in the subprime mortgage industry sends ripples through the economy, shopping centers are being caught in the credit squeeze.
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Hundreds of lawsuits are being filed on behalf of borrowers who legal advocates say were shoehorned into homes beyond their means with creative and onerous mortgages.
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In New York City neighborhoods hit hard by the subprime lending crisis, most loans that ended up in foreclosure came from three companies, according to a new report.
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As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
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During the recent U.S. housing boom, mortgage lenders touted so-called exotic mortgages that allowed people to buy houses they could not otherwise afford. Now those lenders are bracing for the not-so-happy story of borrowers like Jesline Jean-Simon.
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How different was subprime lending from other lending in the days of easy money that prevailed until this summer?
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The National Association of Realtors likes the idea of a subprime bailout. Big surprise.
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Even borrowers with strong credit are feeling the pinch as home values fall and payments rise. Tuesday, several banks are expected to offer assistance to ease the burden.
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At that rate, about 1.1 million of the homeowners who took out subprime loans in the last two years will lose their houses, at an estimated cost of $74.6 billion.
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Top bankers warn that many lenders are letting their standards slip and making imprudent loans.
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More than two million subprime adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) are poised to reset at much higher rates in coming months, worsening an already suffering housing market.
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EVEN MORTGAGE lenders cannot get their arms around the dramatic changes in the industry over the past several months. The fall of the subprime mortgage market and the subsequent resetting of underwriting guidelines, increases in foreclosure filings, and consumer anxiety have been dramatic to both borrower and lender alike.