article thumbnail

The current REO market requires an expansion of services for business growth

Housing Wire

Tiffany Fletcher: Real Estate Owned (REO), acquired by lenders , banks, or financial institutions typically due to mortgage loan defaults, involves the strategic marketing and sale of existing properties to mitigate losses on outstanding loans. HW: What are the risk management challenges for REO assets?

article thumbnail

Land sales haven’t been this strong in a decade

Real Trends

Land sales saw their best year in nearly a decade in 2021, according to the 2021 Land Market Report from the Realtors Land Institute (RLI) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released on Tuesday. Year over year, land sales rose 6% in 2021, outperforming the pace of acquisitions of other commercial real estate types.

Land 103
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fannie Mae pays $53M to settle recession-era discrimination suit

Housing Wire

Instead, investors bought the run-down properties in bulk sales. After the housing crisis, the GSE’s portfolio of foreclosed, or “Real Estate Owned” properties ballooned. Photographs show boarded up windows, tall grass, and trash-littered yards, which Rice said deterred owner occupants from buying the properties.

Equity 369
article thumbnail

Opinion: 5 policy changes that can improve housing affordability

Housing Wire

An abundance of housing supply will diminish home prices while a shortage of homes available for sale will escalate prices. Residential zoning laws are designed to promote orderly development, control traffic flow, and ensure that noise and activity levels are appropriate to each specific neighborhood.

Land 379
article thumbnail

Ukraine conflict unlikely to directly impact US housing market: NAR

Real Trends

Politicians have called for boycotts of Russian oil, and some have even called for seizure of American real estate owned by Russian oligarchs. Residential Real Estate Report found that between April 2015 and March 2021, foreign buyers accounted for 1.8% Gasoline prices in the U.S. rose to $4.06

article thumbnail

How and When to Buy Foreclosure Property

Realty Biz

This article might be premature because across most of the country home sales continue happening rapidly. However, ATTOM (real estate data) released comprehensive foreclosure data for the first quarter of 2022 showing a total of 78,271 U.S. The REO sales process is much the same as any traditional sales process.

article thumbnail

San Jose Real Estate Market & Investment Overview

Marco Santarelli

We will discuss the latest San Jose real estate market trends. A lack of homes for sale is pushing prices up, so potential buyers are facing an affordability crunch. The median sale price was $1.2M. Sale-to-List Price Ratio was 104.93%, which shows that buyers are bidding up asking prices. year-over-year.

Marketing 126