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Sedona Homes For Sale Will Be Helped By Stopping Foreclosures

Posted By: Barbara Baker In: Sedona Real Estate
Date: Fri, Jul 30th 2010 4:39 pm

Well, with all the foreclosures surrounding our country - I have been saying for months that the only way out of this thing is for the FEDS to step in and re-tool everyone's current mortgage - otherwise, why should ANYONE Hang onto a home that they had bought in 2001 or after.  To further my thoughts on this .... I have just read a great article on Realtor. Com and have am supplying it here.  

Principal Cuts May Prevent Foreclosures
At least 7 million borrowers will lose their homes this year and next unless there is a broad increase in property values or lenders become much more willing to cut the principal on mortgage loans, an analyst with Amherst Securities Group told the U.S. House Financial Services Committee last month.

That testimony has motivated Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Sheila Blair to consider incentives for lenders to cut principal on $45 billion in mortgages her agency has acquired from seized banks.

“We’re looking now at whether we should provide some further loss-sharing for principal write downs,” says Bair. “Now you’re in a situation where even the good mortgages are going bad because people are losing their jobs.”

While principal reductions are rare, some banks are doing them. In the third quarter of 2009, about 21,000 home loans were modified by reducing the principal, according to Mortgage Metrics, a government publication.

Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody’s Economy.com, suggests that banks receive a federal match of $1 for every $2 in principal reductions they offer to home owners.

“You’re not going to wipe out all the borrowers’ negative equity,” he says. “This just gives them enough hope to get them committed again.”
Source: Bloomberg, John Gittelsohn and Prashant Gopal (01/07/2010)

I truely beleive this is the only way the Big F will stop beating down our prices.  For all your real estate needs in Sedona and the Verde Valley... I can be reached at barbara@barbarabaker.com, website at www.barbarabaker.com, on Facebook at Barbara Hooyman Baker, on LinkedIN, or the old fashioned way - 928-301-0669.