by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Real Estate Facts & Figures
The latest market analysis (for May 2011) was released by our local Multiple Listing Service. The good news is that sales are up over last year, with about 9,000 homes sold for three months in a row. This is due to the record affordability of housing in the...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Foreclosures + Short Sales, Home Buying
The government wants you to buy real estate. As a result, two programs are available to significantly reduce your acquisition costs. So in addition to the low prices, there 2 additional reasons to buy in the Phoenix area right now! But these opportunities expire soon,...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Foreclosures + Short Sales
In Are Lenders Holding Back REOs, I wrote about the inability of lenders that had completed foreclosures to timely put those homes back on the market. Under ordinary circumstances, a bank will put a “real estate owned” (or REO) home back on the market as soon as...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Foreclosures + Short Sales
In normal market situations, a bank will repossess a home and usually get it to a Realtor for listing in the local Multiple Listing Service in as short as 30 days. Therefore, in a relatively short period of time, virtually every marketable lender owned property (a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Foreclosures + Short Sales
The West has been a leader in the number of foreclosures in the United States in first half of 2009. But have things changed? What about the amount of equity in homes? How much have Arizona homeowners lost, and how does that compare to our neighbors? First, in...