Mar
09
2009
Are there Fewer Homes Listed because of Zombie Banks?
Posted by Bob Boog in Entertainment, tags: Entertainment, home, homes, investment, loan modification, loans, mortgage, mortgage modification, real estateAn old real estate axiom goes that once a home has gone through foreclosure, and the sooner a lender can sell the property the better. After all, a non-performing asset is bad for a lender’s books and the sooner the escrow closes, the quicker the lender will be able to recover his losses. However, recently an appraiser paired the online foreclosure databases (found at either Realtytrac.com or ForeclosureRadar.com ) against the statistics found in the local Realtor MLS (multiple listing system) inventory, and noticed something rather peculiar: the datasets don’t reconcile.

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