Understand Your Options To Avoid Foreclosure
Even though experts agree there’s no chance of a large-scale foreclosure crisis, there are a number of homeowners who may be coming face-to-face with foreclosure as a possibility.
4 Reasons Why the End of Forbearance Will Not Lead to a Wave of Foreclosures
With forbearance plans about to come to an end, many are concerned the housing market will experience a wave of foreclosures like what happened after the housing bubble 15 years ago.
Will Forbearance Plans Lead to a Tsunami of Foreclosures?
At the onset of the economic disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic, the government quickly put into place forbearance plans to allow homeowners to remain in their homes without making their monthly mortgage payments.
Short Sales: Are the Numbers Beginning to Slide?
RealtyTrac recently released their Q1 2013 U.S. Foreclosure & Short Sales Report™. One of the more interesting revelations in the report was the decrease in the number of short sales being completed. According to the report, properties not in foreclosure that sold as short sales in the first quarter accounted for an estimated 15% of […]
Fewer Americans in ‘Underwater’ Situation
With home values falling dramatically from 2006 boom prices, many homeowners have found themselves in what is called a ‘negative equity’ or ‘underwater’ situation. This means the value of their home is currently less than the mortgage amount on that home. Many of these homeowners have been ‘locked’ into their houses because they were unable […]
Shadow Inventory and Its Impact on Prices
Many analysts differ on what impact shadow inventory will have on house values in 2013. Some warn that these distressed properties will still play a major role in limiting appreciation. Others believe that the increases in buyer demand will more than offset the increase in supply. The only thing on which everyone agrees is that […]
Will the Mortgage Forgiveness Act Be Extended?
The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 is set to expire at the end of the year. The act allows taxpayers to be excluded from paying taxes on forgiven debt in certain situations. As their website explains: “The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 generally allows taxpayers to exclude income from the discharge of […]
Educate and Care: Real Estate Professionalism Defined
For Agents’ Eyes Only… Each Thursday we will be posting a blog to help real estate professionals understand how they can better assist their buyers and sellers navigate the current real estate market. Hope you find the information helpful. – The KCM Crew As an agent, it is crucially important that we ‘have the heart […]
Shadow Inventory Down…in Most States
CoreLogic, in their most recent foreclosure report, revealed that approximately 1.3 million homes, or 3.2 percent of all homes with a mortgage, were in the national foreclosure inventory as of August 2012 compared to 1.4 million, or 3.4 percent, in August 2011. Month-over-month, the national foreclosure inventory was unchanged from July 2012 to August 2012. […]
The Mortgage Forgiveness Act: Will It Be Extended?
As the year winds down, we are getting more and more inquiries about the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 and whether or not it will be extended past its original expiration date of December 31, 2012. This is important as people who are selling their home through a short sale may be faced […]
Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words?
There are some things that are almost impossible to explain without a graphic or visual. With complex issues, the value of using visuals cannot be over-exaggerated. A study measuring the importance of using visuals by the University of Minnesota concluded: Presentations using visual aids were found to be 43% more persuasive than unaided presentations. There are […]
Nearly 16M Homes Are Now Underwater
Zillow just reported that their data shows nearly 16 million homes in this country are now in a negative equity position where the house is worth less than the mortgages on the home. This number is dramatically higher than the approximate 11 million reported by other entities. Why the huge difference? Zillow professes to take […]
Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act: Will It Be Extended?
Many of our readers have asked whether or not we believe the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 will be extended past its current expiration scheduled for the end of the year. As a reminder, the legislation ensures that homeowners who received principal reductions or other forms of debt forgiveness on their primary residences […]
Foreclosures: What About the Children (Part 2)
Yesterday, we reported on the adverse impact foreclosures have had and will continue to have on the children of this country. Today, we want to talk about how parents can soften the effect. If you can’t keep your house, you must decide how to leave and determine the impact of your decision on your children. […]
Foreclosures: What About the Children? (Part 1)
We were recently troubled by the findings of a research paper authored by Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institute for the organization First Focus which was titled The Ongoing Impact of Foreclosures on Children. In the report, Ms. Isaacs quantified the number of children that have been impacted: 2.3 million children have already lost their homes […]
Months’ Supply of Distressed Properties by State [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The months it would take to sell off all homes under distress or 90 days or more delinquent based on the current sales pace.
Will Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act Be Extended?
Many of our readers have asked whether or not we believe the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 will be extended past its current expiration scheduled for the end of the year. As a reminder, the legislation ensures that homeowners who received principal reductions or other forms of debt forgiveness on their primary residences […]
5 Real Estate Trends to Look For in 2012
Predicting trends during the most volatile housing market in American real estate history is no easy task. We strongly believe these are the five real estate items we should keep an eye on in 2012: 1. Buyers Will Return In 2011, a lack of consumer confidence in the overall economy dramatically impacted the housing market. […]
The Devil Is in the Details
Distressed Property InfoGraphic
CoreLogic information on Shadow Information:
http://www.corelogic.com/about-us/researchtrends/shadow-inventory.aspx
LPS information on inventory/sales ratio:
RealtyTrac information on discounts on short sales and foreclosures:
Housing Market Casting a Smaller Shadow
The inventory of future short sales and foreclosures which will be coming to the market is known as ‘shadow inventory’. Future real estate pricing will be determined by the number of these distressed properties which eventually reach the market. These properties sell at major discounts: short sales at a 10% discount foreclosures at a 35% […]
Month’s Shadow Inventory: State by State
Last week, we reported on the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Economists’ Outlook and gave you a map showing the percentage of overall sales that distressed properties represented in each state. Today we want to show you another map from the same NAR outlook. This one shows the number of months shadow inventory by state: NAR […]
