California Short Sale Advisors » Jason Cardiff http://www.californiashortsaleadvisors.com California Short Sales, Foreclosures, REOs Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside & Orange County Short-Sales Listings Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:32:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 California Home Prices Fell 42% http://www.californiashortsaleadvisors.com/2009/02/03/california-home-prices-fell-42/ http://www.californiashortsaleadvisors.com/2009/02/03/california-home-prices-fell-42/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:26:25 +0000 admin http://www.californiashortsaleadvisors.com/?p=59 Bloomberg released a report revealing that California home prices plunged 42 % in December from a year earlier as the U.S. housing slump deepened and home foreclosures hit record levels. The median price for a single-family home in the most populous U.S. state dropped to $281,100 from $480,820 a year earlier, the Los Angeles-based California Association of Realtors said today in a statement. “The decline in California home prices has brought the cost of housing more in line with household income, improving affordability across the state,” Leslie Appleton-Young, the association’s chief economist, said in the statement. “This should be especially helpful for first-time buyers who can qualify for a home loan.” More than 236,000 homes, or 2.8% of California’s housing stock, were foreclosed on in 2008, MDA DataQuick said today. Foreclosed properties tend to sell at a discount of 25% or more, and California home sales rose 85 % in response to last month’s drop in prices, the Realtors association said.

Daniel Taub’s article indicated the number of existing single-family detached homes sold soared to 544,580 on an annualized basis from 294,520 a year earlier, the group said.   The median number of days it took to sell a property dropped to 46.1 days in December from 66.7 days a year earlier. The Realtors’ Unsold Inventory Index, which indicates the number of months needed to deplete the supply of homes on the market at the current sales rate, dropped to 5.6 months from 13.4 months a year ago.

Mortgage Loan Defaults

California mortgage defaults dropped 7.7 % in the fourth quarter after the state enacted a law to delay foreclosures, MDA DataQuick said in a separate report today. Homeowners in the state received 75,230 default notices in the fourth quarter, down from 81,550 a year earlier. Fourth- quarter defaults were down 20 % from the previous three months, according to the San Diego-based research company.  Kelly Media Group President, Jason Cardiff commented, “When borrowers are in line to renegotiate their mortgage, most lenders don’t report loan defaults even if the borrower is behind 6 months.” Cardiff continued, this means “We need to be extremely cautious when considering foreclosure data and housing reports.”

A law that requires mortgage lenders to discuss ways to avoid foreclosure with California borrowers before filing a default notice went into effect in September. Defaults plunged to 14,995 that month, and were back up to 39,993 in December. `No one expected defaults to stay at the much lower levels we saw immediately after the new law took effect,” MDA DataQuick President John Walsh said in a statement.

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According to former Ditech executive Josh Emmons, “The increased consumer awareness of foreclosure prevention alternatives like loan modifications has reduced some of the short sale market-share.”  Still many real estate evaluators expect a bumpy road for 2009 with property values forecasted to decline in double digits across the state. California short sales continue to dominate the Southern California housing market. However many believe we will see a turn of the tide for the mortgage business. 

KMG President, Jason Cardiff remains optimistic of a possible rebound for the housing sector in 2009 because of the significant efforts from the mortgage powerhouses to lower interest rates and make credit more available for refinancing and new home financing.  In a recent Real Estate Related News article Jason Cardiff said, “2009 may see the housing sectors and home financing markets rebound after all.”  He continued, “The Federal Reserve showed their commitment with record low rate cuts to fight deflation and many financial insiders believe the President Elect, Barrack Obama will be aggressive in an effort to stem the foreclosure mess.”  Read the complete story > Jason Cardiff Remains Optimistic of 2009 Mortgage Rebound

 

 

 

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