There’s Still a Foreclosure Crisis
As Many as 90% of Foreclosed Properties Held Off the Market
“I still worry about further price declines. There’s no really concrete reason for an upturn now. A recent survey of home buyers didn’t find any sudden change in optimism and there seems to be a souring on the idea of home ownership. That might reverse again as the crisis ends, but I suspect that it’s not easily reversed because the whole idea of proudly owning a home has been tarnished … That’s why I think home prices may still go down.”
-Robert Shiller, co founder of S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index
There’s an article on the AOL Real Estate blog that explains much of what is happening in today’s housing market although the piece was written back in July 2012. The article, which was written by journalist Teke Wiggen, was widely circulated when it first appeared, but has since been swept down the memory hole to make room for the nonsensical blabber about a “housing recovery”. Even so, it’s worth reviewing the content of Wiggin’s extraordinary piece since the facts are just as relevant today as when he first wrote them 7 months ago. Here’s a clip from the article titled “‘Shadow REO’: As Many as 90% of Foreclosed Properties Held Off the Market, Estimates Suggest”:
“As many as 90 percent of REOs are withheld from sale, according to estimates recently provided to AOL Real Estate by two analytics firms. It’s a testament to lenders’ fears that flooding the market with foreclosed homes could wreak havoc on their balance sheets and present a danger to the housing market as a whole.
Online foreclosure marketplace RealtyTrac recently found that just 15 percent of REOs in the Washington, D.C., area were for sale, a statistic that is representative of nationwide numbers, the company said.
Analytics firm CoreLogic provided an even lower estimate, suggesting that just 10 percent of all REOs in the country are listed by their owners, which include mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as the Federal Housing Administration.” (“‘Shadow REO’: As Many as 90% of Foreclosed Properties Held Off the Market, Estimates Suggest”, AOL Real Estate)
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It certainly APPEARS the Pretender lender Banks/Trusts entities / S.P.V.’s may be HELD BACK while the Banks and Their Racketeer Gov. agents in legis ATTEMPT to Shore UP TAINTED beyond recovery; Broken / Clouded Chains of Titles, Trails of Custody or Abstracts of Titles?
The Thefts by DE-ception and DIS-truction of NOTES, render the alleged former CONtarct / “Theft of Identity” ( Promissory NOTE/Negotiable Instrument), for Fraudulent pretenses; DIS-olved and thereby VAPORIZED NO longer existent agreement!