The Residential Specialist
DECEMBER 21, 2022
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 ®.
Housing Wire
DECEMBER 21, 2022
On Wednesday, existing home sales collapsed near the lows we saw during COVID-19 and back in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. “The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. From NAR: Total existing-home sales waned 7.7%
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CT Homes
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
A defining term that emerged shortly after the collapse was the “short sale”. In the years following, short sales were the driving force behind a majority of all total real estate transactions. But what is the short sale process and how does it work? . What is a Short Sale?
Housing Wire
JULY 1, 2022
Home forfeiture actions, including completed foreclosure sales, short sales, and deed in-lieu-of- foreclosure actions also grew by 26.8% of the loans modified included a principal deferral, the OCC said. trillion in unpaid principal balance, the report said. year-over-year to 2,410, the OCC found. compared to 94.2%
Keeping Current Matters
JULY 28, 2021
million households lost their home to a foreclosure, short sale, or because they simply gave it back to the bank. The 10% equity number is important because it enables homeowners to sell their houses and pay the related expenses instead of facing the hit on their credit that a foreclosure or short sale would create.
Calculated Risk Real Estate
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Mortgage Equity Withdrawal is an aggregate number and is a combination of homeowners extracting equity - hence the name "MEW" - and normal principal payments and debt cancellation (modifications, short sales, and foreclosures). 1 (sometimes called the Flow of Funds report) released today.
Keeping Current Matters
JANUARY 13, 2021
Yanling Mayer, Principal Economist at CoreLogic , recently revealed : “A distributional analysis of forborne loans’ payment status reveals that more than one third (39.1%) of all forborne loans are now 150+ days behind payment, while as many as 1-in-4 (25.5%) are 180+ days past due.”. Though 29.4% Bottom Line.
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