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This means that homeowners who had to seek, apply for and were granted a mortgage loan are now eligible for assistance, of course, some criteria have to be met before they are elected and granted the assistance that they are seeking.

For instance, homeowners who want to abide by these programs have to be up to date with their mortgage payments and have to prove that the current financial crisis has forced them to allocate more than the 50% of their household monthly income to the payment of the mortgage loan. With this proof, they will also have to demonstrate that they are unable to provide for their families the necessities such as clothes, food and health care.

Once this has been proven, the homeowners are eligible to adhere and benefit from the mortgage assistance program that will allow them to salvage their home while still keeping the needs for their families covered. It means reducing the mortgage payments and increasing the life expectancy of the loan itself. That way, when someone has to allocate around 70% of their monthly income on the payment of the mortgage loan, now it can be reduced to just the 35%.

Such measures have caused that in a state like Minnesota the foreclosure actions that are being carried out have decreased a 13.91% from the start of the application of these programs. Of course, the benefits of such actions are certainly not limited to the houses that will be protected and their owners who have the chance to keep them. It also applies to those neighbors and other real estate owners who used to see that a foreclosure would depreciate their property’s value.

So the real estate properties value have raised as a consequence of this a 3.36% in general, so good news are all around.

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By the second quarter of this year, the number of foreclosed homes increased to approximately 17% despite the implementation of the federal program to help the borrowers to protect their homes from foreclosure. The figure of foreclosures rose to 711 in the Monterey County during the second quarter of this year. While during the first quarter of this year, the records featured 680 foreclosures in this county. This is almost 4.6% hike according to Marina J. Camacho, who is the administrative services coordinator of the county.

Though the local figures are quite high, overall there have been fewer foreclosures this year compared to the same time in the previous year. During the second quarter of 2008, there were 754 foreclosures in Monterey County. This indicates more foreclosures in 2008 compared to 2009.

The national figures feature for foreclosures shows 106,007 within the second quarter as compared to the figure of 90,696 within the previous 3 months as per the reports of the Office of Thrift Supervision. According to the quarterly report, the mortgage figure has reached to 64%, which is an exceptional hike. This hike is consequent to the moratoriums imposed on the government foreclosures.

During this period attempts to help borrowers retain their homes also rose through the programs like Making Home Affordable. According to this plan the lenders received some payments in order to reduce the debts of the homeowners. As per the government data since the initiation of this program there were at least 400,000 borrowers who received help. The intention of the Obama government is to help at least 500,000 borrowers within November.

Moreover, the increasing trend of joblessness not only hindered the efforts to control foreclosures but also stepped up the occurrences of foreclosures. In the meantime, the figure of failure borrowers increased grossly and most of them had missed out on approximately two payments. This led to increment of foreclosures by at least 10%. According to the mortgage data, “continued to reflect negative trends influenced by weakness in economic conditions including high unemployment and declining home prices in weak housing markets.”

The report also reflected the threat posed by the numerous loans that are risky and one of the options being adjustable-rate mortgages. In most cases though, the borrowers take loans as per the low interest rates but in the process the payments increased gradually, inflicting the risk of home loses on the borrowers. Above 15% of such loans led to delinquencies during the second quarter of this year. The report also stated that, “The risks of these loans and geographic concentration caused them to perform significantly worse than the overall portfolio.”

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One of the differences that the programs such as Making Home affordable, implemented by the new Obama administration to help homeowners keep their homes without falling into foreclosure hell is that the foreclosure index is slowly but consistently lowering. This means that each time less and less homes and real estate properties are falling into the same foreclosure problem that was one of the initiating factors that caused and gave birth to the current financial crisis in the US.

As these programs are being known by homeowners all around the country, the number of these that adhere to such assistance programs in the quest to keep their homes and maintain their responsibilities fulfilled, such as the payment of the mortgage loans is growing strongly. This also creates a retribution on the price of the properties, meaning that the lending institutions do not have to seek to recover all the investments that they have made on one single collection.

As a consequence, the property prices are also balancing and settling down. Wile the foreclosures forced the lenders to sell the properties at a lower than the commercial value price and have people pushing for them so that the price can be raised, the commercial value of the properties is now increasing.

This means that the value of any real estate property will increase with the passing of time, therefore it will become a nice investment instead of a constant headache. For instance, in Texas alone, with the implementation of the assistance programs for borrowers of mortgage loans the foreclosure percentage in the whole state dropped to 9.87% while the property value and price for the same real estate properties increased a 5.8%.

This allows real estate owners to sell their properties for a profit and not only to cut their losses; in the end, the chances for the real estate market to climb back to the level it once had before the crisis are more than likely.

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