Weekly Update 4-20-12

Here it is 4:40PM on a Friday and I am ending a very busy & exciting week. I received good news on a Commercial deal I am working on just about an hour ago so am trying to tie up the files on that. Picking a topic for this week has been very difficult, a lot going on and I am glad to report all is positive. There is no doubt in my mind that we are on a comeback trail. If you were someone that is thinking about selling your home and had pulled it off the market with the idea you couldn't get what it is worth on a sale you might want to dust off your for sale signs or better yet have me bring one of mine over! My computer notifies me daily on all closings in my area and the list I receive daily is getting bigger and bigger. Inventories are dwindling and I think the buyers are soon going to have a lot less properties to choose from, in fact they already are experiencing that fact. I know that my Associates are really in need of some quality homes to market and are standing by ready willing and able to help potential sellers. As the demand increases and the supply restricts what happens to prices? ........up up up.......exactly! So my weekly update should be titled "good times ahead!" Everyone have a good weekend and we'll see you next Friday

Weekly Update 4-13-12

I am going to try and once again publish weekly updates in regards to the Real Estate Market. This weeks big news is that Bank of America is attempting to speed up their turn around times on Short Sale transactions. They claim the new changes taking effect will speed up the turn around time to 20 days on getting a short sale approved. They have been using the Equator System (Software) for some time which has been cumbersome at best however the changes I have observed are a step in the right direction. Less steps and less customer required documents to produce equates to quicker file processing. Let hope the reality matches the optimism.
On another note I expect REO (Bank Owned) property listings to once again increase with more banks cleaning up their backlogged deliquent accounts. These will be the properties where the owner has no hope of negotiating to save their home but will be given cash incentatives to quit claim off their deeds and move on.
Both of these scenarios will mean much more traffic for area Realtor's. Our office is fielding many more phone calls and inquiries from potential short sale clients and also from Bank Asset managers about listing their properties. I anticipate having to hire many new Associates to handle the upcoming work load.

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