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Abstract: It is becoming rapidly apparent that lenders have had a hand in the problems that bedevil them with defaulting home owners.

As foreclosures begin to get a lot of press coverage, inevitably, what comes under scrutiny is the lending practise, criteria and even advertising methods of some of the lenders in the real estate market.

A recent news item on CNN, for example, highlighted the fact that many borrowers in trouble were pulled in by deceptive ads such as LowerMyBills.com. The ads featured dancing figures, apparently happy about low-loan rates. One ad claimed a “$145,000 mortgage for under $499 a month!” Few, if any, borrowers actually scrolled to the bottom to see payments actually double over time.

It is exactly this kind of advertising practice and the fact that very recently a top level mortgage broker publicly admitted that they were under pressure to meet tough monthly targets by practically helping self-certified borrowers fill-in mortgage application forms in a way that would make it possible for the borrower to apply for a much higher loan than would otherwise have been possible.

With practices like this it is no wonder that borrowers caught in the hard world of the sub-prime mortgage market are in trouble, nor is it any wonder that lenders are over-exposed. Lawmakers and cynics are already talking about greed being the undoing of the lenders but that, right now, is beside the point.

What is required here are two distinctly different forms of action, none of which has anything to do with the knee-jerk reaction of banning sub-prime mortgages, as some have been calling for in the news.

The first, is already been taken, President Bush and members of Congress as well as 37 State Prosecutors have began to pressure lenders to be a little less eager to foreclose on properties and actually work with struggling home owners to resolve the issue where possible.

The second, and probably the hardest to implement, is the enactment of regulation which will safeguard, in future, borrowers from exactly the kind of sharp practice they have been exposed to this time round. Whether this is a self-regulatory or a legislatively-driven kind of regulation is, at this stage, immaterial. We clearly need something in place if we are to preserve the healthy growth in home ownership figures and the fact that the existence of sub-prime mortgages gives the opportunity to borrowers who would not otherwise be able to buy a house, to benefit from the great American Dream.

The state of our economy is only bolstered from home ownership and to contemplate anything that negatively affects that is clearly a short-sighted, knee-jerk reaction which will do more harm than the foreclosure and mortgage debt problems it tries to avoid.

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Abstract: Foreclosures are at their highest in 50 years but there is little point in appointing blame if we cannot come up with a concrete, immediate solution.

It is human nature to look for a scapegoat the moment things begin to go wrong and the current situation with the foreclosure market in the US real estate scene is no different. The results coming in from different lenders across every state in the US indicate that foreclosures are at an all-time high.

Certainly this century has also been one for records in the real estate market with home prices setting records for many consecutive months and the number of home owners, in itself, reaching a record high, so it is not that surprising that foreclosures, the flip side of the heady home ownership coin, are also breaking records.

This does not answer the question who is to blame though. Let’s examine the equation a little more closely. Lenders, who are at their most efficient and profitable when they are lending money and receiving payments, are, generally speaking, reluctant to foreclosure on a property and take ownership unless they are getting nervous that the home owner can no longer make payments and delay is going to result in further losses for the lender.

Homeowners have been leveraging their house equity and ability to readily borrow money for the last decade now so it comes as little surprise that quite a few of them in the sub-prime mortgage market find themselves over-stretched.

The Federal Reserve Bank has been trying to curb spending and inflation in the economy through the longest period of interest rate hikes this century, they have, seemingly, succeeded but have managed to over-expose those borrowers who had borrowed to the hilt in order to buy a property.

In the blame game it would be easy to start with the borrowers who keep on borrowing and cannot stop spending, take lenders in our stride, particularly as it is becoming increasingly obvious that mane have been sailing a little too close to the wind for comfort when it comes to the transparency of charges in the loans they were offering to borrowers and end up with the Federal Reserve intent on keeping the economy from overheating at any cost.

None of this would serve to undo what has been done. What is important now is how do we make sure the real estate market does not suffer and foreclosures do not exceed the norm?

President Bush and members  of Congress have appealed to the mortgage industry to lower rates, and the industry says it is working with struggling homeowners. Now, the top prosecutors in 37 states are putting more direct pressure on lenders to open communication lines and not force foreclosure on struggling homeowners. The trick here is on communication and flexibility.

If lenders manage to keep their nerve and not force foreclosures in fear of losing even more money as the real estate market slumps and house prices drop then all this is but a blimp as we head towards the golden promise of a 21st century where house equity and house prices keep on growing at a steady rate.

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