Cost of subprime borrowing could go even higher

by PAUL JACKSON

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• FHA Cracks Down on 4 Mortgage Lenders
• Shadow Inventory of Homes to Take Nearly 3 Years to Clear: S&P
• Former Employees Allege Reverse Redlining at Wells Fargo
• Cancelled Foreclosures Outnumber Sales in California: ForeclosureRadar

Origination/Lending

The median home listing price declined 1.3% in the Altos Research 10-city composite, continuing a seven-month-long run of declining list...

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• Yearly House Price Decline Narrows to Less Than 1% in January
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Secondary Markets/Investors

Moody’s Investors Service revised its loss projections for 2005-2007 second lien, subprime and HELOC-based US residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS). Moody’s...

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Servicing/Default

All servicers approved by Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.07 -1.83%) must now consider an “Alternative Modification” for all mortgages that did...

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• HUD Hires Compliance Manager to Oversee Inventory
• Congress Told HAMP Will Cost $53bn Less than Expected
• TARP Inspector Barofsky Puts HAMP Under the Microscope