I just finished my first day of CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert) class, and am reflecting on one of the more profound insights given by the instructor, Mark Boyland. Mark, who is an excellent presenter, compared the difficult issues we have to sort out with distressed homeowners with the rather matter of fact way a doctor handles another [...]
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Please Take Off Your Clothes
Posted in Commentary, Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, New York short sales, questions on March 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
How Do You Price a Short Sale?
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, New York short sale Realtor, pricing on November 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After two similar discussions the past week, it would be wise to address how a short sale should be priced. After all, if the offer submitted to the lender is subject to approval and therefore not a certainty, all the more that the asking price is also a hypothesis. It is. But, as educated guesses [...]
Can an Owner Reject an Offer in a Short Sale?
Posted in Commentary, Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, low offers, New York short sales, Owners rights, rejecting offers, Westchester short sale Realtor on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Contrary to what some may think, an owner is not obligated to submit every offer to the lender for approval in order to do a short sale. As a matter of fact, there are offers that an owner should never submit to the lender. That is the owner’s right, as they still hold title and [...]
NY Times: Banks Resisting Short Sales
Posted in Commentary, tagged avoiding foreclosure, Bank of America, foreclosure moratorium, New York short sales, New York Times on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The top emailed story on the New York Times website today, Short Sales Resisted as Foreclosures Are Revived, is over 2 days old. That it remains pinned as the top story to share is significant, especially to anyone in New York who is facing foreclosure or in a short sale. Bank of America has, after [...]
Obama and Administration Encourage More Short Sales
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, New York short sales, short sale specialist, Westchester short sale Realtor, Westchester short sales on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The government has moved to increase the incentive for lenders to allow short sales on their defaulted loans. I welcome this, although there is nothing specified as to how they’ll hold banks accountable for streamlining the process, which is rife with red tape, bureaucracy and long waits. If they truly want to make short sales happen more [...]
Westchester Short Sales- March Mumbers
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, New York short sale agent, New York short sale Realtor, New York short sale specialist, New York short sales, pre foreclosure, short sale realtor, short sale specialist, Short Sales, Westchester short sale agent, westchester short sale real estate agent, Westchester short sale Realtor, westchester short sale specialist, Westchester short sales on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Unless otherwise indicated, all data in this post is from the Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service. There are 3,454 single family homes actively for sale in Westchester County. Of those, 148 are disclosing either a short sale or foreclosure proceeding in process. This is about 4.3% of the available single family home inventory. The actual number is probably far higher than [...]
What is a BPO?
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, BPO, Broker Price Opinion, New York short sale agent, New York short sale Realtor, New York short sale specialist, pre foreclosure, short sale realtor, short sale specialist, Short Sales, Westchester short sale agent, westchester short sale real estate agent, Westchester short sale Realtor, westchester short sale specialist, Westchester short sales on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BPO stands for “broker price opinion.” It is a part of the short sale process that the lender uses to evaluate the merit of a short sale application. Simply put, the lender uses a BPO to ensure that the proposed sales price is aligned with market conditions. Some Westchester County Short sales, for example, are [...]
The Single Mom- Orange County Short Sale
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, hudson valley short sale Realtor, New York short sale agent, New York short sale Realtor, New York short sale specialist, orange county short sale, Orange County short sale Realtor, pre foreclosure, short sale realtor, short sale specialist on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This transaction came several years ago, before the market decline was fully accepted by home sellers. The client was a single mother who, because of a heart condition, missed a great deal of work and fell behind on her home loan. By the time I had met her, she was finished with another agent who [...]
Westchester Short Sales by the Numbers
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, hudson valley short sale Realtor, New York short sale agent, New York short sale specialist, pre foreclosure, short sale expenses, short sale realtor, short sale specialist, Short Sales, Westchester short sale agent, westchester short sale real estate agent, Westchester short sale Realtor, westchester short sale specialist, Westchester short sales on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The question that pops up for people who can no longer pay their mortgage is how much money they’ll have to come up with in order to get out from under their mortgage through a short sale. It is like the old catch-22 I’ve often heard where the client tells me that they want to [...]
Solutions for No Equity and Falling Behind on the Mortgage
Posted in Short Sales, tagged avoiding foreclosure, choosing an agent, New York short sale agent, New York short sale specialist, pre foreclosure, short sale realtor, short sale specialist, Short Sales, Westchester short sale agent, westchester short sale real estate agent, westchester short sale specialist, Westchester short sales on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In some markets, people who only borrowed 80% of their home’s value are waking up to the fact that they actually have no equity. It is happening in all communities- Yonkers, Yorktown, Scarsdale, Somers, White Plains, Wappinger Falls, you name it. No demographic, neighborhood or school district is immune from the ripple effect of the [...]
Short Sales
Posted in Short Sales, Uncategorized, tagged avoiding foreclosure, Dutchess short sale Realtor, Putnam short sale Realtor, Rockland short sale Realtor, Short Sales, Westchester short sale Realtor on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Short sale occurs when a bank accepts a lower price than the mortgage balance, allowing distressed homeowners to sell their home and satisfy the debt with no future obligation or deficiency judgment. J. Philip Real Estate specializes in these transactions, and I personally broker several per month. My first short sale was in the [...]
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When Everyone Walks Away with Money Exept the Seller
Posted in Commentary, tagged avoiding foreclosure, preserving credit, proceeds on March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just about every home sale is stressful on the seller. A short sale, given the higher stakes and financial ramifications, often has even more stress for the seller than a typical transaction. On a few occasions, I have had a short sale client lament that they are “left out” in a way, in that everyone [...]
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