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Cramdowns Possible Rx for Foreclosures

By admin | October 31, 2007

A properly designed bankruptcy bill with firm guidance for modifying loans could reduce the number of expected foreclosures by 500,000, Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s control.com, has told a congressional panel.

Mr. Zandi warned that 2 million families could capitulate their domicile by near the start 2009 and that the current succession of rising foreclosures and falling box prices could lead to a governmental recession.

“There is no more effective fail to unexpectedly circle this cycle than by adopting legislation to brook bankruptcy judges the authority to reshape first mortgages by treating them as secured not up to the exchange value of the holdings,” he testified.

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He suggested that this legislation should sunset after three years so Congress can review its strike. But he dismissed claims by the Mortgage Bankers Association that such a bankruptcy neb would force lenders to increase mortgage rates and fees.

The fall of compactness.com testified that known voluntary efforts by mortgage servicers to modify loans is unlikely to the increase in foreclosures.

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