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Government Set to Sell Foreclosures in Bulk
CNBC ^

Posted on 01/09/2012 2:35:37 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland

Edited on 01/10/2012 5:17:40 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Obama administration, in conjunction with federal regulators and led by the overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is very close to announcing a pilot program to sell government-owned foreclosures in bulk to investors as rentals, according to administration officials.

There currently are about a quarter of a million foreclosed properties on the books of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and millions more are coming.

The foreclosure processing delays of last year created a mammoth backlog of properties yet to be processed, which are just now being re-started. One of the initiatives of this program is for the federal government to be in the position to mitigate and manage any new wave of foreclosures, sources say.

Late-stage delinquencies still in the pipeline number close to two million, according to a new report from Lender Processing Services. Foreclosure starts outnumber foreclosure sales by two to one and "the trend toward fewer loans becoming delinquent, which dominated 2010 and the first quarter of 2011, appears to have halted," according to LPS.

Knowing this all too well, the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, HUD, FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) at the helm, are engaged in a collaborative effort to face this new wave of foreclosures head on and figure out a way to keep these properties from sitting on the books of the government and sitting empty in the nation's neighborhoods.

As the Federal Reserve alluded to in its white paper on housing last week, "A government-facilitated REO-to-rental program has the potential to help the housing market and improve loss recoveries on reo portfolios." REO's (Real Estate Owned) are bank-owned properties, or, in this case, properties owned by the government-sponsored enterprises and the FHA. Three Fed governors pushed for similar plans in speeches last week, as well...

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Comment: This seems like a really bad idea to me. Talk about crony capitalism. Individual buyers will not be able to from buy these properties.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoeconomy; bhohousing; fanniemae; fha; forclosure; freddiemac; realestate
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To: Venturer
Insider deals for the well connected and political donors. This is the kind of crap that quite a few people could agree on, no matter what the party or degree on the political spectrum.

Reagan had the only answer. Shrink government; and the money just isn't there to pass to one’s political cronies.

This is the kind of stuff Palin could have leveraged big time had she run

21 posted on 01/09/2012 3:42:32 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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bttt


22 posted on 01/09/2012 7:50:44 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: Lorianne

I looked at foreclosures for over a year before I finally found an affordable nonforeclosure. I subscribe to Fanny and Freddie listings and still get their updates. When I would find a new listing that I might be interested in I would go to the County Assessor’s office and find out how much Fannie/Freddie paid for it. I found a fairly nice older home in a neighborhood I liked and got very excited when I saw that Fannie acquired it for $103K. I happened to have that ammount in my bank so I talked to neighbors etc and etc. No one had lived in the house for 3 years and animals had gained entrance, which meant lots of work. Anyway, Fannie put the house up for sale for $193K! Several months later it is still on the market but the price goes down every once in a while.

Long and short of it is they could have sold this house to me 6 months ago but instead it will probably go to one of these investor consortiums for $40K or so and become a rental. This is our government at work, making wise use of tax payer dollars as usual.


23 posted on 01/09/2012 11:58:14 PM PST by tinamina
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To: HereInTheHeartland
More of the Chicago way?
24 posted on 01/10/2012 5:08:02 AM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Excellent article and exposure of the way this administration runs whatever they can get their hands on.

Obama, Barney Frank et al paying off their buddies and making it even more difficult for ordinary citizens to own their own homes.

As was mentioned already, these homes that could be sold for what was paid for them will be drastically discounted so there will be many more rentals occupied by people that could have bought the homes.

Gotta keep close control of the people and pay off your buddies if the Marxist state is to be implemented.

25 posted on 01/10/2012 5:30:44 AM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: tinamina

Yep, I’m in the exact same position.

It’s a racket.


26 posted on 01/10/2012 8:14:38 AM PST by Lorianne
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