In a word, the residential mortgage picture is: BAD.
As reported by MarketWatch, more than 11.3 million homeowners — nearly one-fourth of all Americans with a mortgage — owe more on their loan (or are “under water”), than their home is now worth, according to a report released February 23, 2010, by FirstAmerican CoreLogic.

More than 10% of […]

We normally would NOT reproduce language from a prospectus filed with the SEC. HOWEVER the following language is culled directly from a very interesting and timely filing made by First Mariner Bank on Tuesday (2.9.10).
It is so related to our recent posts – regarding the collapse of the commercial real estate market and the heavy-weight […]

Governor Martin O’Malley and Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown released data in the form of a StateStat Update on foreclosure prevention outreach efforts in Maryland:

Through the first six months of 2009, approximately 18,112 foreclosure filings occurred in
Maryland.
Compared with 17,625 filings for the same period last year, this represents a growth of about 2.8 percent.
In […]

As reported by ZeroHedge today – Mortgage Delinquencies Hit Record High, New Home Sales Disappoint. Green shoot believers, who are forever searching for clues of positive signs of recovery, will be devastated when they see these grave statistics. Sorry but the numbers are the numbers:

12 percent of homeowners with a mortgage are behind on their payments or in foreclosure.

Half of […]

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Today the U.S. Treasury announced what they call the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, intended to stave off the mortgage and residential real estate crisis. Below is a quick and dirty outline of the plan. For a summary, review the Treasury’s Fact Sheet. For the Full Plan, check out all the details right from the […]

As we suggested in this Blog on November 7, 2008, democrats are once again planning to reintroduce legislation that would allow bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of troubled borrowers’ loans — a move that industry opponents say will lead to higher interest rates and down payments for all borrowers.
Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., said he […]

Less than two weeks ago we posted a mind-boggling article to this Blog that outlined some $4.28 Trillion Dollars that the government was estimated to fork over, to overt a complete financial meltdown.
Incredibly today, Bloomberg News has updated and calculated that new rescue number to be a wopping  $7.4 Trillion Dollars!!!
So here is the multi-trillion dollar question: What will our […]

The Pew Charitable Trust has just released a comprehensive 54 page report entitled: