{"id":92889,"date":"2009-12-21T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2009\/12\/21\/mortgages-and-housing-foreclosure-backlog-shadow-inventory-dont-walk-away-mod-the-mod-another-shoe-to-drop\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:02:08","slug":"mortgages-and-housing-foreclosure-backlog-shadow-inventory-don%e2%80%99t-walk-away-mod-the-mod-another-shoe-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92889","title":{"rendered":"Mortgages and Housing: Foreclosure Backlog, Shadow Inventory, Don\u2019t Walk Away, Mod the Mod, Another Shoe To Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/billcoppedge.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bill-coppedge-dec09-1.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\"><\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/original-content-selection-by-MortgageNewsClips.com31.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"59\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/advertiser.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"advertiser\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/advertiser_thumb.png\" width=\"173\" height=\"37\"><\/a>&nbsp; +&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hw16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hw1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hw1_thumb6.gif\" width=\"282\" height=\"36\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Foreclosure backlog estimated at 1.7 million<\/strong> &#8211; About 1.7 million homeowners were on the verge of foreclosure in the fall, a looming &#8220;shadow inventory&#8221; of homes that will be put up for sale in the coming years and weigh down prices, a report said Thursday.&nbsp; <strong>The number, up from 1.1 million a year earlier, is likely to keep rising through the middle of next year or later, said Mark Fleming, chief economist of First American CoreLogic<\/strong>, the real estate research firm that released the study. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvertiser.com\/article\/20091218\/BUSINESS\/912180313\/1046\/Foreclosure-backlog-estimated-at-1.7-million\">TheAdvertiser.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and<br \/>First American Sees 1.7m in Shadow Inventory &#8211; By JON PRIOR &#8211; &#8230;<strong> What<\/strong> <strong>matters is how this pending inventory will hit the market. Unless banks disberse the \u201cshadow inventory\u201d onto the market in a controlled and measured rate, housing prices could double-dip again in 2010.<\/strong> &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/2009\/12\/17\/first-american-sees-17m-in-shadow-inventory\/\">HousingWire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tmtgm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tmtgm\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tmtgm_thumb.png\" width=\"348\" height=\"57\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Not Walking Away &#8211; Is it conditioning, morality, or na\u00efvet\u00e9? &#8211;<\/strong> Tim Iacono &#8211; The question of what motivates underwater homeowners to either stay put and continue to make their mortgage payments (if they can) or &#8220;walk away&#8221; from their home (and their financial obligations) has been receiving an increasing amount of attention in recent weeks. In looking at this matter,<strong> a good place to begin is with the abstract below from the recent study Underwater and Not Walking Away<\/strong>(.pdf) by Brent White at the University of Arizona: &#8211; T<a href=\"http:\/\/themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/is-it-conditioning-morality-or-naivete.html\">heMessThatGreenspanMade<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/WalkingAway1029.pdf\">link to Brent White&#8217;s paper<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/istock-analyst1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"istock-analyst\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/istock-analyst_thumb1.png\" width=\"138\" height=\"58\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is There A Modification For The Loan-Modification Program?<\/strong> &#8211; By: Tycoon Report &#8211;&nbsp; <strong>good summary of modification programs and thier pitfalls.<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\/article\/viewarticle\/articleid\/3725045\">iStockAnalyst<\/a>&nbsp; <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realestateconsulting.com\/Newsletters.aspx?quicklaunch=true&amp;newsletter=US\/us200912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jbrec\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jbrec.gif\" width=\"452\" height=\"180\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/johnburns_Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"johnburns_Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/johnburns_Logo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"48\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Resale Volumes: Another Shoe to Drop? &#8211; Existing home sales volumes are off 30% from the peak and have returned to 1998 levels<\/strong> (see the chart below that removes some of the month-to-month gyrations). While this might seem like a plunge, a little more historical analysis is in order &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateconsulting.com\/Newsletters.aspx?quicklaunch=true&amp;newsletter=US\/us200912\">John Burns Real Estate Consulting<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=rfiXEp0Gtg4:7h_iZk51GhM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe\/~4\/rfiXEp0Gtg4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; +&nbsp; Foreclosure backlog estimated at 1.7 million &#8211; About 1.7 million homeowners were on the verge of foreclosure in the fall, a looming &#8220;shadow inventory&#8221; of homes that will be put up for sale in the coming years and weigh down prices, a report said Thursday.&nbsp; The number, up from 1.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}