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The US Mortgage Market Today: How Are We Doing?
The whole world has been been slapped dizzy by the today’s economy, in the USA as much as anywhere else. Home prices, after a thrilling ride to an improbable peak, have been in a terrifying, turbulent power-dive, shaking people out of their homes from coast to coast. Banks have lost money on mortgage loan defaults, and they’ve lost money on the employee-hours spent processing them. Those bold investors who dared to buy were glutted with properties for sale at auction. The banks got in on the action, buying foreclosed properties at deep discounts and listing them with the MLS, in an attempt to recover their losses.
Initially, money was tight. Lenders, gun-shy from the recent spate of defaults, were reluctant to lend money to anyone who couldn’t prove their solvency with large down payments, documented assets, and demonstrably stable and substantial incomes. But the government’s guarantees gave the lenders courage, mortgage loan thus became easier to obtain, and so the banks were able to list their foreclosed properties with real estate brokers and, ultimately, found buyers.
Now, thanks to timely government backing, mortgage lenders are able to offer some of the best-looking mortgage packages we’ve seen in decades. Low- or no down payment loans are available, at amazingly low interest rates. Properties reacquired by banks desperate to recoup their foreclosure losses are on offer at fire-sale prices, promising instant equity to buyers who are able to act now.
As loans become easier to obtain, real estate investors can buy from realtors through the MLS, actually walking through the properties instead of buying at auction, often sight unseen. This makes the transaction more comfortable for investors, and, since the banks are still eager to sell, whether at auction or through the MLS, prices remain very attractive.
As far as the Mortgage market is concerned, it is hoped to be back again, in fact to its way to top in the next two years. Very high profits are expected for people who have been lucky enough to buy properties in such low cost with low interest rates during this recession time.
That hasn’t happened yet, of course. The turbulent economy is still causing people to lose their footing. Jobs are still disappearing, houses are still going into foreclosure, and properties still end up being auctioned off at rock-bottom prices. But there are ways for people to keep their homes, thanks to the government’s commitment to help them. Refinancing the loan, if at all possible, is still the best way to ease the burden of a ballooning ARM or high-interest loan. Today’s low interest rates can mean monthly payments hundreds of dollars less than the terms of contracts negotiated during the property-value boom.
Every crisis bears the seeds of opportunity. The government’s aid has eased the pressures felt by banks due to foreclosures. Lenders’ fears have abated, and they’re once again willing and able to offer loans profitable to both lender and borrower. People are growing confident that, at this golden moment in history, there are easy profits to be made in real estate.
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