While no one is going to confuse the current market with the investor insanity of 2005 and 2006, there is a growing buzz of investor activity in the Fort Myers area market. Many of these investors are targeting distressed single-family homes that need some spiffing to be resold to a traditional buyers.
[more] →The Washington Post covers the Southwest Florida foreclosure crisis with a powerful photo essay detailing some of the challenges in the market. At present, nearly 2/3 of our real estate transactions involve either bank-owned foreclosure or short sale listings. Valuations for distressed properties have in many cases dropped to levels below half of what these properties sold for during the real estate boom.
[more] →I just read an article in the New York Times titled The Roller-Coaster Ride Called a Short Sale with great fascination. It seems the post-bubble real estate challenges that we have been dealing with here in SW Florida are now reality in Manhattan as well. I don’t know about you, but it sure is hard for me to visualize many market parallels between the likes of Gator Circle or Gateway and the Upper East Side.
[more] →Just as we were getting ready to dump some tea from the Midpoint Bridge over our continued frustration with banks delaying short sale approvals……..the fairy princess of short sales has come to Southwest Florida and is approving these deals in droves!
We have a file draw full of short sale offers that we have made for clients, some stretching well back into 2009. In recent days, banks have started aggressively working many of these offers
[more] →A really quick Fort Myers short sale…..must be an oxymoron or a Realtors’ late night long tale! Well not always, our team recently closed a short sale in 37 days! This transaction was for a High Point Place condo located at 2090 W. 1st Street #1609 in the Downtown Fort Myers River District.
[more] →My e-mail inbox today contained an e-mail that really troubled me, here it is with the senders name redacted:
Subject
I BUY AND SELL SHORT SALES…
Business Week reports that lenders are stepping up their efforts to collect on deficiency judgments of mortgage defaulters. The article reports that banks are seeking deficiency judgments in both short sale and foreclosure scenarios.
[more] →One of the buyer misconceptions about our current Fort Myers area real estate market is that banks will approve ultra-aggressive, low-ball offers on short sales and foreclosures. Approving low-ball offers in Lee County has absolutely not been the operating model for lending institutions during 2009.
[more] →The Miami Press reports on new guidelines coming out from the U.S. Treasury that will place a 10 day limit on bank approval for a short sale. These guidelines cover mortgages for institutions participating in the Home Affordable Modification Program including JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America.
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