Not exact matches
Also of note about the Colorado mortgage market is that, if you default
on your
home loan and your lender
forecloses on the
home and sells it at auction, the lender can sue you for the difference between what you owe and the
price the
home commands at auction.
We tried to sell, but discovered that so many
homes had been
foreclosed on in Mt. Auburn that the
price of real estate had dropped over 50 %.
It does not make sense to
foreclose on a
home if the amount you owe exceeds the projected sale
price.
Two good places to start are www.hotpads.com, which lists information
on bank foreclosures, and www.ushomeauction.com, which will give you a good idea of
prices for
foreclosed homes throughout the U.S. «My husband did some fact - finding
on the Internet and I attended real estate seminars before I contacted a real estate agent,» says Maria Woroniuk, 50, an operations manager in Calgary, who is interested in buying a property in Arizona.
Short Sale: Your servicer may allow you sell the
home yourself before the property is
foreclosed on, and may agree to forgive any shortfall between the sale
price and the mortgage balance.
Home mortgage interest rates have never been lower,
foreclosed properties are available for bargain
prices, special grant programs even pay down payments and
on - line tools let you shop for
foreclosed homes across the country.
Because so few veterans default
on their mortgages and the Department of Veterans Affairs guarantees 25 % of the
home's purchase
price to the lender if it has to
foreclose, these loans are less risky for lenders.
These are
homes that Fannie Mae
foreclosed on, and put back
on the market, usually for a lower
price with a smaller down payment.
We track the discount by comparing the sale
price of
foreclosed homes with that
home's Zestimate
home value
on the day of the sale.
The sale of
foreclosed properties and Real Estate Owned properties are not considered «arm's length» because there is tremendous downward pressure
on the sales
price to get the
home sold and off the bank's books quickly.
I had the seller finally drop the
price of the
home to get an offer
on it for it was overpriced to begin with simply due to not a comp in site, rural areas., I was told by the negotiator that if we did not have an offer
on the desk by 8/13/12 it would be declined and imminent that it be
foreclosed on due to strick guidelines the investors were following.
That means that if your
home is
foreclosed and the amount you still owe
on it exceeds the amount the bank can get for selling the
home, the lender can sue you and go after your assets for the difference between the new sale
price and the amount you still owe your lender.
«Builders are reporting increasing demand for new
homes as inventories of
foreclosed and distressed properties begin to shrink in markets across the country,» says NAHB Chairman Barry Rutenberg, a
home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «In view of the tightening supply and other improving conditions, many potential buyers who were
on the fence are now motivated to move forward with a purchase in order to take advantage of today's favorable
prices and interest rates.»