Abundance Of Bank Foreclosed Homes Affect Accidental Sellers

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The growing number of bank foreclosed homes across the country in the first six months of this year posed a big problem to homeowners who want to sell their properties because they have to relocate for a new job or some other reasons or they just want out of neighborhoods with depreciating property values due to abundance of foreclosed properties.

Many of them found themselves stuck, unable to sell their properties even if they lower the prices to compete with discounted bank foreclosed homes.

In the first six months of this year, the country experienced an increase in the number of foreclosure filings, totaling 1,905,723 or 9 percent higher from the last six months of 2008 and 15 percent above the total foreclosures in the first half of 2008. The figures translate to 1.19 percent households receiving one foreclosure filing from January to June of this year.

In New York City, a Manhattan apartment takes an average of five months to find a buyer, nearly 20 percent longer compared to the time it takes to sell one last year. New York City foreclosure rate was down to 892 or 7 percent in the second quarter of 2009, but up by 3 percent compared with the first quarter.

Sellers, most of them in urgency to unload their properties, are under a lot of stress, anxiety and sometimes depression. Aside from difficulty in finding buyers, they have to take losses from their properties because of depreciated values and the need to compete with discounted bank foreclosed homes.

The foreclosure crisis swept the New York region uncontrollably for the past two years, devastating billions of dollars in property wealth. The problem has now spread from single family homes in New York to estates and to the suburban area of Long Island.

Recent data showed that 6 percent of mortgage loans in the region are 3 months behind in payment. And several studies showed that severely affected by the foreclosure crisis are black and Latino borrowers, with defaults occurring thrice as much in minorities.

With this scenario and the anticipated second wave of bank foreclosed homes, accidental sellers could not do anything but wait and hope for a buyer to come along.


About the Author:
Joseph Smith has been educating buyers on the finer points of Bank Foreclosed Homes at BankForeclosuresSale .com for over five years.



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