Ongoing Threat Of Even More Foreclosures

The big US housing boom really started to dwindle in 2006 and increasing foreclosed news is constantly heard from media networks

. Many of today's homeowner's (maybe as much as 10% of them) simply cannot keep up with their payments.

Many of the foreclosed homes are tied to neighborhoods where subprime martgages were widespread. MS Foreclosure are just one example. Decreasing home values also contributed to the increase in number of these foreclosures. Additionally, state and most local governments were forced to cut back on their spending because the drop in the value of these properties sharply decreased their tax bases.

There were signs of this coming however, three of them in fact. First was the bailing out of property owners due to the plummeting prices of real estate. The secondary sign involved previous borrowers with expired introductory interest rates resulting to keeping up with a higher rate and the third one, which is currently beginning to build up, are the people holding prime mortgages and who have lost their jobs due to the economic meltdown and are now unable to pay on their mortgages. In fact, many of these people even have above average or good credit ratings (not for long though). It is expected that unemployment would contribute to almost 60 percent of mortgage defaults. Unfortunately, this means that even more foreclosure news will be heard through the rest of this year.

According to an analysis made by New York Times in February 2009 (data provided by First American Core Logic), the number of prime mortgages that have delinquent payments exceeded 1.5 million with loans totaling to $224 billion. In that same month, the delinquencies on the even worse off subprime mortgages were as high as 1.65 million. In all, a total of $717 billion worth of loans were recorded in February - this is an increase of 60 percent from last year. All of these foreclosures have also dramatically impacted Wall Street and mortgage bonds. These also lead to bank loses of hundreds of billions. (Note: Search on 'forecloser' as well because it is a very common miss-spelling of foreclosure and is prevalent in the foreclosure news posts.)

The Obama administration announced in February that they will be spending $75 billion to save as much as four million homeowners from foreclosures through mortgage incentives and reduced payments. Unfortunately it may take months before anything ever comes of the plan and for many that will be too late. Until that time comes, you will need to brace for the storm and all of the foreclosure news that is still looming out there.

by: Michael Bartonolis

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