2012 is on track to become a record year for short sales, according to a report from foreclosure data aggregator RealtyTrac. Sales of U.S. homes in the foreclosure process, typically short sales, rose 33 percent year over year, to 35,000, in January. A total of 32 states saw annual increases in short sales, and 12 …
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RealtyTrac’s year-end report released Thursday shows foreclosure filings – including default, auction, and bank repossession notices – were reported on 1,887,777 U.S. properties in 2011. Of that total, 804,423 homes were taken back by lenders as REO. Last year’s tally of nearly 1.9 million properties with a foreclosure filing seems staggering, but it’s actually the …
Despite record low mortgage rates, 2011 has seen a surprisingly high level of cash home purchases, according to the real estate research firm Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. Jonathan Dienhart and Ken Lee, two analysts with the company, say between tight lending standards and a desperate search for yield by investors, cash purchases of homes – …
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Have you heard of the new trend in housing construction: snore rooms? Neither had I until I read this article by MSNBC.com: That’s it honey, I’ll be in the snore room Builders catering to couples who start the night together but end separately Judy MacDonald faces a near-nightly domestic conflict. When she wakes around 2 …