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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Short sales are the hottest thing going in the distressed-property market, and the trend is expected to get even hotter in coming weeks, when the government starts handing out cash to encourage lenders to close these deals.
“Banks have ramped up short sale approvals,” said Duane Legate of House Buyer Network, which connects short sellers with buyers. “They’re hiring a lot of the people who once worked in the mortgage-lending industry and moved them over to short sales.”
In an attempt to breathe more life into the housing market, HUD is changing an FHA rule that prohibited insuring any home sold in fewer than 90 days. Officials hope the change will help rehabilitate distressed properties faster and raise home values.
The term “flipper” became a dirty word in the real-estate business just before the bubble burst. Now the federal government is turning to these quick-turnaround investors to pump some new life into the deflated housing market.
This is just my humble opinion, but FHA, Freddie Mac, Fannie May and the FDIC all need the ethical real estate entrepreneur to help fix this housing problem, PERIOD! This problem is too BIG for them to fix without people like real estate investors to buy, add value and resell these properties and help the banks and the real estate market recover. I’m just not saying this because I’m a real estate investor, but I truly believe that this is the only way to start a recovery and the Federal government is finally seeing the light…
WOW, this is cool! I just had to share this tip to help homeowners that need cash and are in foreclosure. i believe that there is a way to get some homeowners CASH when faced with foreclosure. I understand that this is a nationwide strategy!
There are hundred of thousands of people facing foreclosure because of all the economic conditions. Most people that work in the real estate industry like Realtors and even some investors don’t even know how to help homeowners receive money in foreclosure situations. If your working the pre-foreclosure sector of the real estate industry right now, your working in a highly regulated area where banks aren’t allowing sellers to receive any funds from a short sale transaction. Recently, Federal guidelines have loosened that a bit by allowing some owners that have an FHA mortgage the ability to receive $1500 from the transaction to help families move to another location.
The good news is that there is a way that if done correctly will allow for an investor that buys homes in pre-foreclosure to have the Seller to file a claim on the home to the hazard insurance company and receive funds payable to the investor/buyer and the investor/buyer pays a portion to the seller out of those funds. The claim limit is that the claim cannot be over 25% of the value of the home.
One other caveat is that the hazard insurance must be the lender’s hazard insurance policy not the homeowner’s policy paid through escrow or that the homeowner bought to protect the home from damage etc. Here’s the scoop, when a home goes into foreclosure, there is normally an escrow account that handles all of taxes and insurance (hazard insurance) and paid out once or maybe twice a year to satisfy the accrued expenses.
When the property goes into foreclosure and the escrow amount cannot cover the hazard insurance amount that lender is required to protect their asset by arranging for a hazard insurance policy to be placed in the property so that if there is a claim on the property the lender will initiate a payment to the insurance company to cover the cost of the claim. If the homeowner is working with an investor who has equitable interest in the property, then the insurance is required to pay the homeowner or people that have equitable interest in the property. If the investor is not on the loan then the lender will have the insurance adjuster come out to the property to assess the damage and make a payment to the buyer investor who will then pay the owner a portion of the money to help them out. This is a helpful solution to help people facing foreclosure.
Now, with all of that said I got bits and pieces of this strategy from A&E’s Armando Montelongo as he’s visiting Denver this week. I actually thought this was a brilliant helpful approach to helping people that absolutely need help.
I would recommend that you take this information and forward to your insurance agent and your attorney and anyone else that you think would be helpful in executing this strategy to see if it can work for some of your clients if the house has hail damage or serious damage like structural damage etc…
Let’s take care of the Sellers out there that have no other way to redeem cash if their homes are going into foreclosure. I would say that this is just one way that may be able to help someone that has a damaged home and needs the money to get through the difficult situation.
The Financial Times reports that The Federal Reserve has made $14 billion in profits on loans made in the last two years. The U.S. central bank also earned about $19 billion from interest and fees charged to institutions that tapped liquidity facilities during the global financial crisis, the report said. Sounds great, but according to Linus Wilson, a finance professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who analyzed the data for the Times, if private investors had taken a stake in the banks last October on par with the government’s, they would have had profits three times as large — about $12 billion, or 44 percent if tallied on an annual basis.
Why? Finance experts say the government overpaid for the bank assets it bought. A Congressional oversight panel concluded in February that the Treasury paid an average of 34 percent more than the estimated fair value of the assets it received.
Utah-based company gets federal foreclosure prevention money
Funds aimed at assisting homeowners having financial problems
Select Portfolio Servicing, a Salt Lake City-based financial services company, and Wells Fargo Bank are among the first mortgage lenders to participate in President Obama’s program to help troubled borrowers save their homes.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Short sales are the hottest thing going in the distressed-property market, and the trend is expected to get even hotter in coming weeks, when the government starts handing out cash to encourage lenders to close these deals.
