Senate hearings on the Federal laws regarding buying a house. Witnesses: Janice Hix, Nat. Assoc. of Mortgage Brokers; Ron McCord, Amer. Mortgage & Investment Co. for the Mortgage Bankers Assoc. of Amer.; Russell Booth, Nat. Assoc. of Realtors; Joseph Parker, Jr., Parker Title Insurance Agency, Inc., for the Amer. Land Title Assoc.; Margot Saunders, Nat. Consumer Law Center; Michelle Meier, Consumers Union; Laurence Meyer & Griffith Garwood, member, Board of Governors of the Fed. Reserve System, & Nicolas Retsinas, U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, accompanied by Sarah Rosen.

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In Introduction to Mortgages & Mortgage Backed Securities, author Richard Green combines current practices in real estate capital markets with financial theory so readers can make intelligent business decisions. After a behavioral economics chapter on the nature of real estate decisions, he explores mortgage products, processes, derivatives, and international practices. By focusing on debt, his book presents a different view of the mortgage market than is commonly available, and his primer on fixed-income tools and concepts ensures that readers understand the rich content he covers. Including commercial and residential real estate, this book explains how the markets work, why they collapsed in 2008, and what countries are doing to protect themselves from future bubbles. Green's expertise illuminates both the fundamentals of mortgage analysis and the international paradigms of products, models, and regulatory environments. - Written for buyers of real estate, not mortgage lenders - Balances theory with increasingly complex practices of commercial and residential mortgage lending - Emphasizes international practices, changes caused by the 2008-11 financial crisis, and the behavioral aspects of mortgage decision making

Provides an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise. Discusses the ways that market participants work to minimize these frictions and speculate on how this process broke down. Continues with a complete picture of the subprime borrower and the subprime loan, discussing both predatory borrowing and predatory lending. Presents the key structural features of a typical subprime securitization, documents how rating agencies assign credit ratings to mortgage-backed securities, and outlines how these agencies monitor the performance of mortgage pools over time. The authors draw upon the example of a mortgage pool securitized by New Century Financial during 2006. Illustrations.