Study: Nearly One in Five Mortgage Defaults Are ‘Strategic’
By Nick Timiraos A new report estimates that nearly one in five mortgage defaults through the first half of 2009 were “strategic,” where borrowers who appeared to have the capacity to...
Fannie Mae cracks down on borrowers
Fannie Mae is boosting penalties for strategic defaulters by prohibiting them from getting a mortgage, backed by the company, for seven years from foreclosure date. Washington-based Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) says...
101 Real Estate Investing Resources: A Professional Investor's Rolodex
This week we’ve put together a fairly comprehensive list of resources for you to check out. You can start using many of these immediately as they are free of charge....
The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs
The Top Real Estate Investing Blogs To put this list together, we looked at close to 200 different blogs from both real estate investing-related companies and individual real estate investors. Here are...
7 Ways to Make Money in Distressed Real Estate in 2010
Cash is King, the time to buy distressed property is now! generic They past two years will inevitably go down as the most distressed real estate market in U.S history. Yes, worse...
Buy and Hold in this market? Well, it appears we're headed for a housing shortage…do it
Buy and Hold (waiting for the coming Housing Shortage) - The oldest, most tried and true method of real estate investing takes advantage of inflation, market appreciation and amortization. Fancy...
SEC Sues Utah Man For $145 Million Real Estate Investing Fraud
July 02, 2010, 12:46 PM EDT By Joshua Gallu July 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Utah man for falsely telling customers their $145 million would be invested...
Recession Alters Migration Patterns in U.S.
By MARK WHITEHOUSE The recession has had a profound effect on migration patterns in the U.S., reversing the flow of people to former housing-boom states such as Florida and Nevada, the latest...
Fannie Mae Relaxes Rules for Once Troubled Borrowers (Investor Opportunity?)
So Government mortgage giant Fannie Mae has just announced some interesting new mortgage underwriting guidelines in an April 14th bulletin to lenders. And among them is a tasty little tidbit...
The best housing markets in the country are in…Florida? Chart of the Day
If you measure “best” as “best aligned for price stability over the next 12 months,” perhaps they are. If you’ve followed our previous Chart of the Day(Chart of Most Days? Some...