WSJ: Foreclosures are cutting into new home builders sales
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Short Sale: $149,999 New: $214,990
The Wall Street Journal today had an article today on the impact of short sales and foreclosures on new home builders and their lack of ability to compete and sell new homes.
We’ve seen this phenomenom in Prescott Valley’s Granville and Pronghorn Ranch sudivisions where new home building has ground to a halt. Newer homes, many bought buy investors, in these neighborhoods are being foreclosed on and folks are choosing the 20% discounts over new homes being offered by builders.
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Analysts are asking if builders can lower their prices even more before building a house costs more than they can charge for it. In some markets in Arizona and California, builders have reached that point already and have stopped building until the foreclosure glut is cleared.
As inventories of REO homes has grown, new home builders across the country are competing against foreclosed and short sale properties for sales. Steve Ruffner, president of the SoCal division of KB Home, told the Wall Street Journal in the article, “We are no longer competing with other builders. We are competing with foreclosures.”
See the whole article here: Foreclosed Houses Haunt Home Builders
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Tags: foreclosures, glut of new homes, new home builders, reos 
Categories: Foreclosure Market Report, National Foreclosure News| | 
Thanks for your comment, Robert. I think if you read the entirety of my blog you will see that I try to post the current news and views about the market. You are welcome to post your analysis of what the market will do. My readers welcome input from all sides.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!
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Great blog post. The media will never pick up on this because it is more complicated than a soundbite.
If I may add that with the number of outstanding loans that are scheduled to reset in the next couple of years, decreasing home values and stricter lending guidelines, the rate of foreclosures are on track to peak in 2010. Short sales have become a growing niche for Real Estate Agents to sell homes before they become bank owned.
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1/3 on the market are foreclosed or short sales – wow. It’s nice that you research this information. The agents who represent home sellers prob don’t share that info with buyers. Take care.
Dear Patrick,
Great article! I agree with you. I also would like to add couple more alternatives to those homeowners who want to stay in their homes.
There are two products those aren’t widely knowing and common in the market place. Trsutee Foreclosure Delays and Loan Re-Write.
Did you know that Homeowners are illegally being foreclosed on especially in Trustee States?
In Judicial Foreclosure states, a judge reviews the legality of the foreclosure proceedings to ensure the homeowner is being protected against greedy lenders and yet still the lenders are not properly following the foreclosure laws correctly (see this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=2).
In Trustee States, lenders employ a “third party” trustee company to replace the legal function of a judge and orchestrate the foreclosure process. If banks are not legally foreclosing when they know a judge reviews the case what do you think they are doing when they only have to go through a trustee that they pay? And what is more interesting, the trustee company is liable for the foreclosure proceedings but who is going after the trustee companies to review the legality of these foreclosure packages? You guess it! Yes, No one is..!
Did you know that a loan Re-Write program has the ability to reduce homeowner’s current loan balance down to the current market value at prime + 3%?
Here is an example: You owe $500K on your home but it is only worth $350k. Investors will bulk purchase the note from your current lender and re-write it back to you at $350k, saving you (the homeowner) over $150k!
I hope this helps!
To find out more about our services you may want to visit http://ASNDinc.com/
Yamen Elasadi
yamen@ASNDinc.com
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This is good news… Foreclosure market needs movement to make more money and start leaving this situation
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