Posts Tagged ‘toxic asset’

Weekly Industry Update- No Easy Solutions

Friday, May 1st, 2009

This weeks industry call was somewhat eye opening for 2 reasons.

First, lenders now have all of the info on the Obama housing plan and how it will affect them.

Second, is that to date, there have been NO takers for the public (94%)/private (6%) partnership to buy $1 trillion of toxic assets to get them off the lenders books. (more…)

Weekly Industry Update- Toxic Asset Plan Stalled

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I’m writing this post in real time as I’m on our weekly industry call.  Here are some quick updates.

Lenders hoping to see some movement on the “toxic asset” plan to entice private investors to jump in w/ private equity to help move some of the bad debt off their books has produced little results. (more…)