The REO hits just keep on coming in Rancho Santa Fe. We saw Lago Lindo list for $1,879,000 and receive eight offers, with bids over $2 million. These days the buyers roam from REO to REO, in search of the right deal, with only glimmers of hope that a regular seller...
Month: November 2009
Carlsbad F-List Video Tour
Here is a video tour of a few of the 100 properties on the auction/REO list in 92009 and 92011 - it appears there will be plenty of McMansions to go around!
F-List Review
Folks have been wondering about what details could be culled from the foreclosure list. We'll give the benefit of the doubt and omit those on the NOD list - they might be able to save themselves, or get a loan mod. Let's just look at the 100 SFRs valued between...
Grandma’s House
What would you think if you discovered that the house right next door just listed for $220,000 less than you paid 2 months ago.... If the next-door buyer relied on the same faulty tax roll information that I had, he should sue.
More Big Money
from the U-T: A glimmer of light is shining through San Diego’s bleak real estate market, judging from the sale this week of the La Jolla oceanfront home owned by Doug and Betsy Manchester. The six-bedroom, 11-bath estate, with swimming pool and boathouse, closed...
From Edit Room Floor
Just another baseball-crazy ex-pitcher and purveyor of truth trying to document the SoCal experience....happy 21st wedding anniversary wifey! (yesterday)
Details on D4L
hat tip to AL for sending this along, from the WSJ: The Deed for Lease Program, which Fannie plans to roll out on Thursday, will offer borrowers who fail to complete or don't qualify for a loan modification or other workout to deed their property to the lender in...
More on Tax Credit
From the AP: Buyers who have owned their current homes at least five years would be eligible for tax credits of up to $6,500. First-time homebuyers — or anyone who hasn't owned a home in the last three years — would still get up to $8,000. To qualify, buyers in both...
More Trustee-Sale Buying
They have to do something, right? As servicers receive more and more REOs, they have to be discussing their options: 1. Use the trustee sales as a primary liquidation channel to off-load more properties quickly, cheaply, and without recourse. 2. List the habitable...
Forever Dripped?
From sddt: "Even with NOD numbers virtually flat with 2,880 in October and 2,875 in September, 2009 is on pace to break 2008’s record-breaking 34,069 NODs filed in a single year. With two more months to go, 2009 has racked up 33,904 NODs and has averaged 3,390 per...