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Sacramento Short Sales Will Definately Improve in 2010
December 31st, 2009 Categories: Default News, Sacramento Home Buyers, Sacramento RE Stats, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends, Shortsales
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Short Sale Help Is On The Way! BofA Implements The REOTrans Equator Short Sale Process Module.
Sacramento Short Sales are here to stay… and with more and more defaults and homeowners in foreclosure, short sales will become even more and more rampant in Sacramento.
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The problems with most Sacramento short sale transactions are the extremely slow communication, processing, negotiating and approval of short sale files.Even though their are several banks that have been really good to work with; Wachovia has been good for a long time, Chase is becoming a breeze; Wells Fargo is getting things lined up, and now even Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are pledging to help the Short Sale Process to become smoother.
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The “writing is on the wall” for 2010 to become the year that servicers, banks, institutions and secondary investors all get their act together to help make the short sale process more mainstream, less painful, confusing and stressful for buyers!
Over the last few years; often times, after Sacramento buyers have written offers on two, three, even four or more short sales without success, they just quit looking at short sales altogether and look for an REO or equity sale…
We will Surely look back at 2010 as the year the game changed… as more and more banks implement systems to make the Short Sale Processmore streamlined, easier to manage and even transparent; more like traditional real estate transactions! Sacramento’s real estate market will see a huge change as Bank of America gets its act together and starts closing short sales faster and more consistently
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The new Equator Short Sale Processing Module (formerly known as REOtrans) has been launched as the industry’s first short sale processingonline portal. The amount of people I talk to here in the Sacramento area just amazes me; its like one of every three or four people I visit with about their mortgage have a BorA or Countrywide BofA
Although Equator has declined to name the lender, the new Internet based platform, as recently reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, will be used by Bank of America. A representative from BofA recently told the Chronicle that they were using the Equator platform to manage the short sale process. Great news, as Bank America is hands down the WORST bank to deal with on short sale files right now!
The Short Sale platform will allow everyone involved in the transaction to work together, in real time with access to all documents, processing requests etc. and will be a huge asset in helping to shorten the time frames of short-sale approvals.
As reported in DSNews:
“This is the first time that short sales have been handled through an electronic platform,” said Equator CEOChris Saitta. “With our new system, everyone works together in real time, dramatically improving communication and approval timeliness for our client, its borrowers, vendors, and real estate agents.”
Just think– The short sale process becoming more like traditional real estate!
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The Rise of The Sacramento Short Sale
December 22nd, 2009 Categories: Default News, Loan Modification, Real Estate News, Sacramento Real Estate Trends, Shortsales
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Sacramento Short Sales now 21.5% of Market
Well First of all, Let’s just quickly define short sales:
A real estate short sale is a sale of property in which the sale proceeds fall short of the balance owed on the property’s loan or loans.
Sacramento’s Real Estate Market has recently been a perfect storm for short sales.
There have always been short-sales. Since the beginning of real estate. Market prices go up and market prices go down, and when a homeowner has to sell when they are upside-down… well, you get the picture.
Homeowners can have many reasons to sell their home in a Short Sale; any time there is a reduction in market value along with the need for relocation, sickness, job loss, death or divorce, there is no other way besides just letting the bank take it back. So Short Sales are the best solution to keep a homeowner out of foreclosure when it is clear they cannot keep the home…
But in this economy, Sacramento shortsales most often occur when a homeowner just cannot pay the loan payment on their property. With Sacramento unemployment at 12.3% and a 41 month long drop in median home prices that has taken over 55% off the 2005 highs in Sacramento County. Sacramento Short Sales are now over 20% of the market!
Short sales in Sacramento have become a popular pre-foreclosure option to keep homeowners out of foreclousure, when loan modifications just don’t provide a solution to foreclosure.
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December 19th, 2009 Categories: My Stories, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends
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Cold Front Moves In For Sacramento Real Estate Market …
November 13th, 2009 Categories: First Time Buyers, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends
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If Sacramento area real estate buyer trends have any resemblance to the national trends, things may be heading into a long, slow spell…
Even with mortgage interest rates are at their lowest levels in five weeks, a seasonally adjusted index of home purchase applications was at its lowest level since 2000, the Mortgage Bankers Assn. said in a report yesterday.
The closely watched Freddie Mac report on rates also came out Thursday, showing 30-year fixed home loans at an average of 4.91% this week for borrowers paying 0.7% in up-front points and fees to lenders.
So even though mortgage rates are so low, home sale mortgage applications are declining —
So even with the government’s $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers has been extended, and a $6,500 credit for many move up buyers, the numbers are way down…
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Sacramento Market May Not Be Helped Much By Extension Of Tax Credit
November 13th, 2009 Categories: First Time Buyers, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends
A consensus poll of real estate agents with Keller williams realty in the Sacramento area revealed today that the tax credit pulled forward demand, got people to buy earlier, and that there will likely be a lull in buyer traffic at the end of 2009 into 2010.
The tax credit for first time buyers remains the same, $8,000, but now current homeowners who buy a new residence can qualify for a tax credit of $6,500 under the program. First time homebuyers are defined as not owning a home in the past three years. Current homeowners are those buyers who have used the home sold or being sold as a principal residence consecutively for 5 of the previous 8 years. This means someone who sold their home 2-years ago but lived in it for 5-years before they sold are eligible for the tax credit if they buy a new home.
Add the fact that we are going into the slow time of the year, It seems that buyer activity here in the Sacramento valley for first time and move up buyers alike may definitely be going into a bit of a dormant stage.
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Sacramento Real Estate “Less Favorable” in report… May Not Be Helped Much By Extension Ot Tax Credit
November 13th, 2009 Categories: Real Estate News, Real Estate Trends, Sacramento Foreclosures, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends
Sacramento real estate market called Less Favorable in think tank report…
Urban Land Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank reported yesterday in its “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010” report that there may be problems ahead for Sacramento real estate market.
Jonathan Miller, a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers who wrote the report,said ”On balance here, I guess it’s a sober year for 2010 and maybe not much better in 2011,” in a telephone news conference from the convention. “It all depends on how the economy behaves and if the consumer comes back. We don’t expect much of a resurgence.”
In the report, Sacramento was described as less favorable because of “concerns about government gridlock, rising taxes and an inhospitable business climate”.
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Sacramento Trustee Sale Postponements and Face to Face Requirements
November 9th, 2009 Categories: Default News, Loan Modification, Pre Foreclosures, Real Estate News, Sacramento Foreclosures, Sacramento Real Estate Trends, Shortsales
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I was visiting with a good friend the other day who attends the Sacramento trustee Sales downtown (Yes, they really have a live auction, some days there are three separate sales going on simultaneously at 720 9TH ST; downtown Sacramento) he said he is still seeing more than 7 out of ten sales being postponed. For some reason or another banks and serivcers are pretty much imposing their own foreclosure moratorium, at least here in Sacramento County.
I am a Home Retention Counselor with Titanium solutions and the assignments have been picking up. I used to get one or so a week, but lately have been getting at least five assignments a week, even though I only cover four Zip Codes with Titanium. Titanium Solutions contracts with loss mitigation departments to contact homeowners who for some reason or another have fallen out of touch with their servicer.
In almost every case, the homeowner has at one time either started a loan modification,agreed to look into a loan modification or they have short sale file started and then had somehow fallen out of contact with the right department at the bank. That’s where Titanium comes in– I will go knock on the door, leave a note, look up past phone numbers etc., and normally I am successful at getting the homeowners back in touch with the bank.
Lately though, I have run across situations where the homeowner has been in touch with the bank and working diligently either on a short sale or a loan modification. I talked to a lady in Folsom the other day who had just hung up the phone with her servicer about a half hour before I showed up. Her file was perfect, needed no updating and was in review. Another evening last week in Granite bay, I sat down with homeowners who had a short sale file in and being negotiated and was supposed to have a short sale approval letter that week,
It makes me wonder, why are these servicers doing that?
In my research for an answer, I came across information that suggests that the major banks, who have still got TARP money are being pressured to make some kind of FACE TO FACE contact with their borrowers before they can use foreclosure as a means of recovery.
So by having it documented that a bank representative has come by face to face, the banks now have the foreclosure solution available to them, should the short sale or loan modification fail. (the Titanium Script that I must use with borrowers clearly states that I am a representative of their servicer and a debt collecter and that any information gathered will be used for that purpose).
Could that perhaps have anything to do with the Sacramento Trustee Sale Postponements? Are the two related in any way or just coincidence?
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BofA Suffers Huge Loss- More Foreclosures…
October 19th, 2009 Categories: Loan Modification, Mortgage and Loans, Real Estate Trends, Sacramento Real Estate, Sacramento Real Estate Trends
Bank of America (BOA) announced today that it suffered a $2.2 billion loss in the third-quarter quarter. Contributing to that was a $1.2 billion dividend payment to its preferred shareholders, including the U.S. government, credit losses within some of its consumer-related businesses, and $402 million after it agreed to eliminate a loss-sharing agreement it had struck with the government earlier this year. “Obviously, credit costs remain high, and that is our major financial challenge going forward.” Most of this quarter’s losses were in Bank of America’s mortgage and credit card businesses, which together lost more than $1 billion during the July-September period.
BOA funded $95.7 billion in first mortgages, selling purchase or refinance loans to nearly 450,000 borrowers, including $23.3bn in mortgages to 154,000 low- and moderate-income borrowers during the quarter. About 39% of all the first mortgages were for purchases. Year-to-date at the end of Q309, BOA modified the mortgages of approximately 215,000 customers, and an additional 98,000 BOA mortgage customers are in the trial stage of a Making Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) workout. The overall results were slightly worse than Wall Street was expecting. Analysts had anticipated that the company would suffer a loss of 21 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters, but in fact lost 26 cents a share.
Foreclosures up
Since government intervention began in September 2008, foreclosure sales remain stunted, dropping 8.6% from the previous month and 40.6% from a year ago. But the percentage of foreclosures sold to third parties, who are usually investors, grew by 215% from last year and 3.27% from August, according to ForeclosureRadar’s monthly foreclosure report. Arizona leads all states with an increase of filings by 36.1% in September, followed by Florida (29.6%), Texas (24.3%), and Michigan (18.22%). Filings in California increased only 1.08% in September, but the volume has grown by 123% from last year.
Urban areas were hit hardest and spurred the increases. In Arizona, the statewide increase was fueled by a massive 81.3% increase in Phoenix foreclosures. Foreclosures in Las Vegas jumped 47.4%; Atlanta had a 39.9% increase; Chicago’s rates climbed 36.2%; and Houston had a 33.2% spike in foreclosures, according to ForeclosureListings.com. RealtyTrac says foreclosure filings in Q309 increased to a level unseen since it began reporting the figures in January of 2005.
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