Archive for April, 2010

Some Long Term Financing Is Still Not Coming Back

Based on the senior vice president for commercial real estate at Bank of Oklahoma ,Victor Guarry, it is foreseen that as the secondary market for permanent financing has yet to make a return.  Also, some of the long term financing is still not returning.  Even though lots of banks are not tempted in making provisional [...]

HAFA Process For Homeowners Who Were Declined Of Loan Modification Program

Real estate experts believe HAFA is very similar to the program they started molding just before the present administration released its program, which was based on the same idea. Once they have done all the home retention solutions, they would now implement the information already collected to go through the pre-approval process and begin a [...]

Financial Incentives Of HAFA Will Make Short Sale Happen

The financial incentives of Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives will aid in making the short sale happen for property owners and creditors, especially second-lienholders. Many short sales don’t push thru because of some last-minute disagreement. HAFA sets clear expectations on all sides, realtors are expecting good things about the program in general. Real estate experts think [...]

Some Homeowners Having Problems With Banks To Approve Short Sales

Some homeowners are having problem with banks to approve short sales, or the sale of a home for less than the mortgage balance owed. Some takes a couple months to complete, which became the amin cause of problems for everyone involved.  The present administration’s process of taking out lenders and get them going to follow [...]

Tax Credit Has Already Served Its Purpose

According to the GLVAR President, he has linked the problem in sales to buyers rushing to take advantage of the federal tax credit. Some people are also anxious about the effect on the Las Vegas housing market, even though low prices have spurred sales. According to real estate experts, they are not certain if it [...]

Home Buyers Found New Opportunity In Short Sales

According to the real estate experts, there has been a lot of problems in foreclosures and short sales is a really good implementation to lessen the burden from the families that had their properties foreclosed.  One of the families experienced the start of their housing problem during the housing boom by taking out a risky [...]

Short Sale Advantages Over A Foreclosure

With a short sale, your financial debt would be you personal problem and would not be the topic of the neighborhood conversation. The plunging home prices and lost jobs have put many sellers into this position. One example in Orange County, California, short sales made up to about an average of about 26 percent of [...]

HAFA Internet Portal for Borrowers and Real Estate Agents

A few months ago, the amount of short sales accounted for 15.9% of home-purchase transactions, compared with 13.4% of sales that were bank-owned properties that has already been damaged and 13.8% of sales that were already bank owned properties. Based on the result of surveys, short sales usually go in the market for 91% of [...]