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Is Now a Good Time to Buy a House with Cash in 2025?

Marco Santarelli

Why Cash is King, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Before we get specifically into 2025, let's chat about the timeless superpowers that come with buying property using your own money, no bank involved. Market Fundamentals Remain Solid: Despite slower sales and affordability issues, the market isn't collapsing.

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28 real estate niches brimming with potential

Housing Wire

Conversions from office space to residential apartments in major metros are one alternative use case being explored. Foreclosure, REOs and short sales Some real estate transactions and clients, including foreclosures, real-estate-owned (REO) properties and short sales, require a delicate touch.

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Banks report rise in mortgage delinquencies

Housing Wire

Banks reported an increase in foreclosures during the first quarter of 2022, according to a quarterly survey published by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency this week. Home forfeiture actions, including completed foreclosure sales, short sales, and deed in-lieu-of- foreclosure actions also grew by 26.8%

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Xactus targets lenders through active listing data

Housing Wire

Xactus Wednesday announced its new active listing scan program, which will scan residential addresses for changes in listing status and the average number of days on market for a neighborhood. Xactus has more than 6,500 clients, including banks and non-bank mortgage originators, and 12 service centers across the country.

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How to Find Short Sale Homes: A Guide for Buyers

HomeLight

Short sales can provide an excellent opportunity for potential homebuyers to score a good deal. If you’re in the market to buy a short sale home, you’ll need to prepare for a lengthy closing process and steel yourself to jump through some hoops not generally associated with traditional sales. What is a short sale?

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Why Today’s Options Will Save Homeowners from Foreclosure

Keeping Current Matters

Many decided they would just stop making their payments and walk away from the house, which then resulted in the bank foreclosing on the property. A decade ago, there wasn’t a forbearance option, and most banks did not put in other programs, like modifications and short sales, until very late in the crisis.

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Advice on Short-Sale Transactions

The Residential Specialist

Experts who worked through The Great Recession of 2008 share how to handle tricky short-sale transactions. With its perfect storm of record-low property values and record-high unemployment, The Great Recession of 2008 triggered a rash of residential short sales. Short sales are not suited to all REALTORS ®.