Ignore The False Positives, Foreclosure Sales Are Rising Again NowPosted by Jonathan Miller - Thursday, December 6, 2012, 12:16 PM
RealtyTrac released their Q3 2012 U.S. Foreclosure & Short Sales Report which shows a pretty clear recent trend: A timeline that counters the national “recovery” discussion over the past year. Record low mortgage rates and held back distressed activity goosed housing sales and price up using year over year comparisons. I feel like I have to qualify myself as NOT being a housing bear (a distressed housing apologist) but I still can’t figure out the math: flat to falling incomes, high unemployment, rising taxes and tight credit = housing recovery? What’s missing? (memories of my contrarian sentiment feels the same as 2006, just not nearly so dire). Distressed sales have been held out of the mix as RealtyTrac’s report shows in my distressed housing timeline:
Foreclosure levels need to resume their elevated levels or we simply don’t create a real, sustainable housing market recovery. We won’t see a tsunami like 2010 as short sales continue at their high levels and the courts are still backlogged, but I believe we will see a more distressed activity in the next few years than we did during the 2012 lull and that will offset rising prices . Call me crazy. Q3 2012 U.S. Foreclosure & Short Sales Report [RealtyTrac] 13 Responses to Ignore The False Positives, Foreclosure Sales Are Rising Again NowLeave a Reply |
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I am with you on this – the data looks like there has been some price support related to artificially depressed levels of distressed inventory. Will investors take quick gains and get back in the mix once prices start to dip again due to higher supply? Or will they sit back and wait a bit? I guess it depends on how strong their current return (rental yield) is relative to other income investments.
I suspect their yields will slip as pricing for distressed edge higher.
Always pays to research several areas in the market to get the best up to date property news. Your Blog is a great source of information. Thanks Jonathan
Great post Jonathan.
From the trenches, In the past 18 months i have handled many more “short-sales” with lenders. The owners haven’t made payment in a year or two but the lender hasn’t foreclosed. So is it a short-sale or a foreclosure in the market data?
They are each represented separately on the chart. My point is that they are both considered distress and their lower level of volume has skewed the overall price levels higher. Foreclosure generally sees a much larger discount than a short sale so a market share increase of either/both will provide a drag on aggregate pricing. The fact that more short sales are in the mix than the pre-2010 trend would have predicted means a lower drag on aggregate pricing going forward and that’s a good thing.
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Lenders are attempting to get short-sale prices vs. foreclosed prices. Might work except lenders still take 4 times longer than owner occupied to close a short-sale so buyers avoid them, thus longer market time , thus lower sales price. Most important indication on the chart is that distressed property sales have increased each of the last 3 quarters. Increasing even when, seasonly, sales decline.
Bingo – thanks for your insights!
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