Residential foreclosures in Maryland jumped nearly 7.5 percent from April 2010 to May 2010, putting the state among the 10 worst states in the nation for foreclosures.

One in every 399 homes in Maryland received a foreclosure filing in May 2010, according to RealtyTrac.
In Maryland, there were 5,852 filings in the month, a 65 percent increase […]

Most are arguing recovery, yet most of the data is negative and scary. Here’s a datapoint for you  to chew on …
RealtyTrac reports that foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in March 2010, an increase of nearly 19 percent from the previous month, an increase of nearly 8 percent from March 2009 and the […]

ALARMINGLY, today we discover that more than 1.2 million households [have been] lost to the recession, according to a report issued this week by the Mortgage Bankers Association that looked at data between 2005 and 2008.
That number doesn’t include information from 2009, when job losses and foreclosures continued to rise. So it’s likely that the […]

 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 […]