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How it Should Work
Posted at Piedmont Real Estate Blog by Julie Emery
June 21st, 2009 1:16 pm
Categorized in: Foreclosures/Short Sales
Tagged with: banks, foreclosures, lenders, real estate agents, real estate associations, short sales
The short sale process didn't have to be this ugly. A better plan up front could have benefited lenders, real estate agents and homeowners.
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The Great Bank Conspiracy?
Posted at Piedmont Real Estate Blog by Julie Emery
June 18th, 2009 4:53 am
Categorized in: Local Market Conditions
Tagged with: banks, collusion, foreclosures, mortgages, real estate inventory
Are banks colluding to keep foreclosures off the market and inventory low?
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Getting Back To "Boring Banking"
Posted at Austin Real Estate Blog by Ki Gray
May 20th, 2009 11:56 pm
Tagged with: bank fees, banking industry, banks, federal reserve, raising capital, recession, shadow banking, stress test
These days it seems like bank is a four-letter word and bonus-getting bankers are bad guys, as evil as any comic book villain. All the hullaballoo about the banks passing the government "stress test"... [Read More]
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When Realtors Get Trampled by Banks
Posted at Using A Gay Realtor by Dorian Kreiling
May 11th, 2009 8:09 pm
Tagged with: abr, banks, epro, foreclosures, realtor, short sales
In the good fashioned time, not so long ago, there were Buyers and there were Sellers. Contracts were written and Terms of Acceptances were honored. Close of Escrows were declared, houses were sold. It was a simple, dignified time.
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Toxic Assets - Part Two
Posted at What Every Realtor Should Know About the Financial Crisis by Ray Wood
April 25th, 2009 9:01 pm
Tagged with: banks, credit, crisis, financial, geithner, obama, politics, swaps
A discussion about Credit Default Swaps and how they contributed to the failure of AIG and others and how they continue to be a major factor in the global economic crisis.
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Toxic Assets - Part One
Posted at What Every Realtor Should Know About the Financial Crisis by Ray Wood
April 25th, 2009 8:52 pm
Tagged with: bailout, banks, crisis, derivatives, feds, politics, subprime
An introduction to financial derivatives and the role they play in the global financial crisis.
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Mark To Market Eased: Making A Silk Purse From A Sow's Ear? Example Included Below
Posted at The Political and Financial Markets Commentator by Michael Haltman
April 2nd, 2009 6:21 pm
Tagged with: banks, bond market, bonds, business, fasb, investments, mark to market, municipal bonds, politics, prayer
The FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board)relaxed the rules that require a bank to mark the value of an asset on its books to a"market" price, IF a transaction that takes place is distressed and/or if the market that security trades in is inactive. T
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Banks Walking Away
Posted at Piedmont Real Estate Blog by Julie Emery
March 31st, 2009 5:24 am
Categorized in: Foreclosures/Short Sales
Tagged with: banks, culpeper county, fauquier county, foreclosures, homeowners, national association of realtors, new york times, prince william county, rappahannock county
Homeowners aren't the only ones walking away from distressed properties. What happens when no one wants a house?
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Short Sale Warning
Posted at Piedmont Real Estate Blog by Julie Emery
March 27th, 2009 11:23 am
Categorized in: Foreclosures/Short Sales
Tagged with: banks, buyers, lenders, second lien, sellers, short sales
There are new hazards in short sales for the seller.
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