Are Short Sales are becoming a thing of the past? It seems like this is the way the market is moving. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee $5.2 trillion of mortgages, more than half the outstanding U.S. home loans.
Starting in March Non-delinquent borrowers with illness, job changes or other reasons they need to move will become eligible to apply for a deed-in-lieu transaction that erases the shortfall between a property’s value and the size of its mortgage.
Team this with the fact that Fannie Mae is now artificially inflating property values through their high Short Sale counters and their Homepath program and you can see that Short Sales are no longer the first option for these two mortgage giants.
It’s clear that the goal is to take over ownership of properties so they can sell them once the values increase. Or the properties can just be sold through Homepath at a higher than market price since an appraisal is not needed with this program.
Short Sales are drying up:
So....if you handle Short Sales for a living it is time to start looking for alternative income streams. I know I am.
What say you?
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Does anyone know if the Homepath program applies to underwater investment properties?
Here in Florida for sure!!! They are drying up. There are still parts of the country that are just getting into short sales. Nestor said last year that we have to shift the focus to another revenue stream but I have no desire to do property management. We will focus more on the luxury market as our luxury market here has really made a recovery.
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