We have been keeping an eye on home foreclosures in Tallahassee for several years now and have warned that a log-jam of homes has been accumulating in the shadow inventory. In today’s foreclosure update, we’ll look at the location trend of homes that are being added to the “distressed properties” list in the Tallahassee real [...]
The national foreclosure crisis has affected nearly 938,000 properties in the July-September quarter of 2009 compared with about 890,000 in the prior 3 months according to a report released October 8th, 2009 on RealtyTrac , a site which monitors foreclosure across the Country.
If you have fallen behind on your mortgage due to hardships, such as [...]
Yesterday’s blog post regarding non arms length home sales in Tallahassee highlighted some serious concerns about the growth of distressed properties in the Tallahassee housing market. We saw that the ratio of arms length home sales to non arms length home sales continues to grow, thus creating concern that the shadow inventory of homes in [...]
We’ve been watching the lis pendens filings stack up for quite some time, knowing that foreclosures would eventually have to follow. It appears that the time is upon us. Banks now seem to be making the decision to follow through on the foreclosures that were previously just being shelved.
Tallahassee Year Over Year Foreclosures On The [...]
I have been receiving the same question from a lot of people lately …. “What do I do with my upside down home?”
Having purchased a home when the market was booming in 2004 through 2006, many homeowners find themselves “Upside Down,” meaning they owe more money on the home than they can net from its [...]
One great improvement that we have been seeing at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is feedback from our readers. Yesterday, “Steve” wrote such a great comment that I decided to feature it as today’s post, as it contains great information on the subject of real estate foreclosures. Here is what “Steve” had to say:
With all the national talk about foreclosures getting louder this year, we decided to start tracking foreclosures in Tallahassee. The first thing that we discovered is that not all foreclosures are alike, so we have some explaining to do first.
Please see http://www.manausa.com/foreclosures
For those of you who have been following the trend of Tallahassee foreclosures and the bevy of short sales in Tallahassee, you will want to know that Fannie Mae has introduced several new and updated policies regarding bankruptcy, foreclosures, short sales, and principal residency conversion in a document titled Fannie Mae Announcement 08-16.
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