It's Finally Happening
First American CoreLogic released data on
Thursday indicating that 1.7 million REO’s
and potential foreclosures hadn’t hit the
market by the end of the third quarter.
Based on the current sales pace, it’ll
take 3.3 months to get rid of all of these
homes. (Compare that with last year’s 1.1
million homes.)
This is not information you’ll find in
official measures of unsold inventory.
The official number of unsold homes currently
on the market stands at 3.8 million as of the
end of September. That alone could take 7.8
months to sell. Add to that other unseen and
marketed properties and you get 5.5 million
units.
All this indicates that while officially
numbers are down towards the end of this
year the actual impact these foreclosures will
have on the housing market will be much
greater than experts predict.
****How will this affect prices? The
economic recovery? Let us know that you
think!
This "shadow inventory" may make its way
on to the market in huge bundles, or in
steady, manageable streams. Either way,
its impact on the market will be immense
and provide some ripe opportunities for
the timely investor.
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Dr. Gary J. MacDiarmid Sr
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R. Hagelstein
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Kelly Harper

