The real benefits of home ownership are any capital appreciation, plus the imputed rent, minus the effective cost of the mortgage and property taxes, other costs, and the return you could earn on your down payment elsewhere.
By contrast, one quarter of Chinese homebuyers pay cash, and the average mortgage covers only 50% of a property's value.
Assume that you own a piece of property, and there is a mortgage against that property.
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Deputy KRISTINE JONES (Cook County Eviction Unit): What you have happen a lot of times with homes is - even with apartment buildings - is the mortgage holder, the owner of the actual property, is the only person who's notified, because he's the only person that the bank has knowledge of.
In the event Carol sells the residence within three (3) years from the date of entry of this Decree, she agrees to split any equity received from said sale after the payment of the remaining balance on the first mortgage and any costs associated with the sale of the property equally between her and Joe.
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The balance of a non-recourse mortgage is deemed to be proceeds in the sale of a property.
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In the United States 69% were homeowners in 2007, with 70% of them carrying some debt on the property, in the form of a mortgage or a home-equity loan.
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In the process of loan securitization the mortgage, or deed to property backing up a loan, is usually separated from the note, or obligation of the borrower to pay.
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As owners of income property, they deducted the expenses of maintenance, mortgage interest and depreciation of the structure.
But when price trends for cheaper and more expensive houses diverge, the effect of the mortgage lenders' method is to give the same weight to each type of property.
The president has ignored plenty of calls for more radical policies to fix housing such as widespread principal reduction, asserting eminent domain over mortgages or squashing the property rights of bondholders of mortgage-backed securities.
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For instance, a commercial mortgage on a rental property typically requires copies of rent rolls, leases, tax returns, an appraisal and more, taking several weeks to assemble, says Bill Geis, head of retail lending at Raymond James Bank.
Buyers of retail property have been taking advantage of debt financing available from the sale of commercial mortgage-backed securities, a market that has been gathering steam.
Sheridan is betting that a lot of these lenders realize their stake can't be salvaged and will walk away, leaving the property in the hands of the mortgage lender.
It has also affected confidence among mortgage borrowers, the ability of companies to borrow against property to finance investment, and the ability of property developers and speculators to repay their existing loans.
These banks have a high share of mortgage lending and are heavily exposed to commercial property and construction lending - which is what has done for them, because Spain's housing market is weak and becoming weaker, and its commercial property sector is a basket case.
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Other figures from the Bank of England showed that the stock of mortgage debt owed by UK home owners has continued to hover at record levels, despite the stagnation of the property market since the credit crunch started in 2007.
Witnesses include London's Deputy Mayor for Housing, the British Property Federation, and the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
During the period the home is in foreclosure the borrower need not pay the mortgage and has no incentive to invest in upkeep of the property.
Fraud was a material part of the mortgage collapse, a big factor in commercial property and loan losses and a component in investment banking and private-equity losses that did more damage than acknowledged.
Mortgage approvals are a good indicator of short term trends in the property market, and have risen this year in line with recovery in completed sales.
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They've defaulted on their mortgage and the bank decided to get what it could out of the property instead of foreclosing.
Some property owners without flood insurance (which mortgage lenders require of most people living in flood-plains) will get relief from a federal disaster-loan programme.
The mortgage market is still young: a startling aspect of Moscow's wild property-price boom is how little it is driven by mortgages.
Glen Ackroyd, director of the company, says that on one property forum for mortgage rescue operators, Property Tycoon, there are 3, 600 investors.
The mortgage-lender also said the decision was based on the condition of the property which was in need of total modernisation and improvement.
The Monetary Authority will enforce an 80% limit on mortgage loans -- the ceiling in Hong Kong is 70% of the property's assessed value.
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