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StateImpact Idaho

Housing Groups Cry Foul As Idaho Holds Onto Settlement Money
StateImpact Idaho
By Molly Messick Click on the map above to see a study of how states have used their portions of the mortgage settlement. Idaho received more than $13 million in a national, multi-billion dollar mortgage settlement reached early this year.

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
Business Review USA (press release)
Consumer credit card and mortgage spending slowed from a year ago, with the average credit card debt per consumer falling 13% to $5650 and the average mortgage debt decreasing 3% to $166631. Consumers in eight states decreased their mortgage by more ...

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Homeowners In 17 States Getting Shaft In Mortgage Settlements
Lez Get Real
Nine states are using part of the money for mortgage relief, and part of it for other programs. Indiana is using half of it to assist low-income households with energy bills. Idaho, Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Maine and West ...

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Oklahoma (12%), Wyoming (11%) and Idaho (9%) paid down their student loan debt the most while Vermont (8%), Utah (7%) and Delaware (7%) saw the biggest increases. Mississippi ($4232), Louisiana ($4504) and Alabama ($4811) have the least amount of ...

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
Marketwire (press release)
Consumer credit card and mortgage spending slowed from a year ago, with the average credit card debt per consumer falling 13% to $5650 and the average mortgage debt decreasing 3% to $166631. Consumers in eight states decreased their mortgage by more ...

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Consumer Mortgage Debt Falls Three Percent Since April 2011, According to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Consumer credit card and mortgage spending slowed from a year ago, with the average credit card debt per consumer falling 13% to $5650 and the average mortgage debt decreasing 3% to $166631. Consumers in eight states decreased their mortgage by more ...

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Your Treasure Valley business community-05-16-2012
The Idaho Statesman
Mario Reyes has been appointed dean of the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho. Scott Jackson and Roni Leuck have joined HomeStreet Bank as a mortgage loan officers. Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center has earned its STAR ...

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Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
SEATTLE--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) today announced the appointment of David P. Bobbitt of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to serve on the Seattle Bank's Board of Directors as a member director representing ...

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Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors
SunHerald.com
SEATTLE -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) today announced the appointment of David P. Bobbitt of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to serve on the Seattle Bank's Board of Directors as a member director representing the state of Idaho.

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Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) today announced the appointment of David P. Bobbitt of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to serve on the Seattle Bank's Board of Directors as a member director ...

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Mortgage foreclosures dropping nationwide; good news for Maine
Bangor Daily News
National mortgage-foreclosure activity in April decreased 5 percent from March and was down 14 percent from April 2011, according to a report by RealtyTrac released Thursday. One in every 698 US housing units had a foreclosure filing during the month.

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Misused funds
WatertownDailyTimes.com
Low-income families in Indiana will get some relief from their energy bills through the mortgage settlement. Lawmakers are skirting the intent of the agreement with a provision that allows the payment to be considered a ?civil penalty.

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Central Indiana: 'Most Affordable' Housing Market
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
A National Association of Home Builders report rates the Indianapolis-Carmel area as the most affordable large market in the country. The Housing Opportunity Index finds that nearly 96 percent of area homes sold in the first quarter of 2012 were ...

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Homeowners In 17 States Getting Shaft In Mortgage Settlements
Lez Get Real
Oklahoma chose not to participate in the program at all. Nine states are using part of the money for mortgage relief, and part of it for other programs. Indiana is using half of it to assist low-income households with energy bills.

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This REIT Promises Yield And Growth Without Mortgage REIT Risk
Seeking Alpha
The New Jersey based REIT has a portfolio of 41 manufactured home communities containing approximately 9000 sites located in Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. I wrote a detailed article on the Residential Housing REIT a ...

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States Divert Mortgage Cash Away From Homeowners
NewsMax.com
The cash is part of a $25 billion national settlement with banks for abuses in mortgage and foreclosure processes and was supposed to go to foreclosure prevention, investigations into fraud and countering the housing crisis. California's share in the ...

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Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop Further Setting Another Record Low Announces ...
Houston Chronicle
Current mortgage rates for a number of different residential mortgage programs can be viewed on BurlingtonMortgage.biz. Below is a snapshot of mortgage rates for a variety of products listed on the site on 5/11/2012. Indiana mortgage rates represented ...

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Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop Further Setting Another Record Low Announces ...
Beaumont Enterprise
Current mortgage rates for a number of different residential mortgage programs can be viewed on BurlingtonMortgage.biz. Below is a snapshot of mortgage rates for a variety of products listed on the site on 5/11/2012. Indiana mortgage rates represented ...

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Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop Further Setting Another Record Low Announces ...
PR Web (press release)
Current mortgage rates for a number of different residential mortgage programs can be viewed on BurlingtonMortgage.biz. Below is a snapshot of mortgage rates for a variety of products listed on the site on 5/11/2012. Indiana mortgage rates represented ...

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Fixed Mortgage Rates Drop Further Setting Another Record Low Announces ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Current mortgage rates for a number of different residential mortgage programs can be viewed on BurlingtonMortgage.biz. Below is a snapshot of mortgage rates for a variety of products listed on the site on 5/11/2012. Indiana mortgage rates represented ...

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OSFI Official Defends its Mortgage Guidelines
Canadian Mortgage Trends
HELOC growth has ?contributed significantly to growing overall household debt?If (or when) housing prices drop, households would be vulnerable.? (Two fair questions would be: how many households and how vulnerable? We have anecdotal evidence, ...



My Refi's a HELOC. Anything Wrong With That?
Fox Business
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, and home equity loans are secured by the property. To the extent allowed by the tax code, based on the size and use of the loan proceeds, the interest expense is tax deductible. Home equity lines and loans used ...



Banks Not Immune to Housing-Related Failures: Corporate Canada
Bloomberg
HELOC Rules OSFI's guidelines suggest lenders limit home-equity lines of credit to 65 percent of the property's value. The regulator also recommends that HELOCs be paid off over a specific amortization period, like conventional mortgages.

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Dollars & Sense: What is HELOC?
KHON2
"A home equity line of credit - or HELOC - is basically a line of credit that's secured with a person's equity in their home," explains Lance Oribio of Central Pacific Bank. There are several different versions of a HELOC.



A lien can hit your home-equity line
MarketWatch
In other words, the first lien holder may not know of the HELOC, and the HELOC lender won't know of a third or even a fourth lien. What's more, they usually don't care because if the first mortgage goes into foreclosure, lien holders are paid in the ...



Investors' remorse
Winnipeg Free Press
Five years ago, at the peak of the stock market, their financial adviser persuaded them to use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to borrow $140000 to invest in mostly equity mutual funds. "I should have retired last June, but because of this problem ...



Borrow From My Home Equity -- Just in Case?
Fox Business
A home equity loan is different from a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. I think you're actually asking about a HELOC. A line of credit can be a better financial backstop because with a line of credit, you don't have to borrow the full amount ...



Spring Mortgage Market Update (2012)
Move Smartly
The consensus view is that this change unfairly punishes the many borrowers who use their HELOCs responsibly in order to protect our financial system from the minority of HELOC borrowers who do not. We simply cannot ignore the fact that HELOCs were the ...

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Members of Bank Fraud Ring Sentenced in $3.7 Million Scam
Mortgage Daily
ATLANTA?After three days of hearings, United States District Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. today concluded the sentencings of six co-conspirators involved in a $3.7 million dollar bank fraud ring involving home equity lines of credit (HELOCs).

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Canadian Regulators Taking Closer Look At HELOCs
Wall Street Journal
Home equity lines of credit, or HELOCs, have soared in recent years, even after similar lending helped fuel the ill-fated US housing market bubble. Canada's largest banks--which have generally won praise for conservative lending that protected them ...



FHA Mortgages For Condos : Guidelines About To Loosen?
The Mortgage Reports
For buyers of condominiums in places like Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; or Minneapolis, Minnesota, the FHA's popular 3.5% low-downpayment mortgage program has been elusive. Because of the FHA's strict condo requirements, few buildings are ...

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Investing Answers

10 States with the Most Seriously Delinquent Mortgages
Investing Answers
As a result, Arizona has the second highest percentage of mortgages that are underwater at 48% -- just behind national leader Nevada. That has prompted many Arizonans to walk away from their mortgage payments. 5. Illinois -- 7.87% of outstanding ...



Illinois third in foreclosures despite national improvement
Morris Daily Herald
By Mary Ellen Podmolik ? Chicago Tribune (MCT) ? Foreclosure starts in Illinois are on par with those in other areas, but the state's court-supervised foreclosure system continues to bog down properties in the process. Almost 7.5 percent of mortgage ...

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Foreclosures in Illinois bogged down
Chicago Tribune
Foreclosure starts in Illinois are on par with those in other areas, but the state's court-supervised foreclosure system continues to bog down properties in the process. Almost 7.5 percent of mortgage loans on one- to four-unit residential properties ...

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Illinois Swamped With Foreclosures
Progress Illinois
The Prairie State is third in the nation when it comes to mortgages in foreclosure, with 6.9 percent of all Illinois home loans in foreclosure, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data. The figure is largely due to a woefully backlogged ...

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Foreclosures: Illinois 3rd Despite National Improvement
HispanicBusiness.com
oreclosures starts in Illinois are on par with those in other areas but the state's court-supervised foreclosure system continues to bog down properties in the process. Almost 7.5 percent of all one-to-four-unit mortgage loans in Illinois were in ...

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US Mortgage Delinquency Rate Falls To Lowest Since 2008
Financial Advisor Magazine
(Bloomberg News) The US mortgage delinquency rate declined in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2008 as an improving job market helped more borrowers pay their bills and tighter lending standards resulted in fewer defaults.

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Judicial States Continue to Skew Foreclosure Statistics
Mortgage News Daily
by Jann Swanson There were substantial improvements in delinquency rates during the first quarter of 2012 according to the National Delinquency Survey for the period released this morning by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Chicagoist

Illinois Third Worst State For Foreclosures
Chicagoist
New data released Wednesday shows while the national foreclosure rate is the lowest its been since 2008, Illinois ranks third from the bottom with almost 7.5 percent of all mortgage loans in delinquency. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's ...

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Mortgage Delinquency Rate in U.S. Falls to Lowest Since 2008
San Francisco Chronicle
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- The US mortgage delinquency rate declined in the first quarter to the lowest level since 2008 as an improving job market helped more borrowers pay their bills and tighter lending standards resulted in fewer defaults.

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