REAL ESTATE NICHES

A Snapshot of the Rising Foreclosure Problem–Western Oregon.

Homes headed to foreclosure continued to rise throughout the state of Oregon during the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first month 2009 with a total of 2,420 notices of default filed in 13 western Oregon counties between Oct. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2008, a 117 percent increase from the previous quarter. A notice of default is the official beginning of the foreclosure process.

These numbers come as no surprise to those of us who have been studying the state’s housing market. It’s likely that we will continue to see increasing numbers of home foreclosures in the state of Oregon in the months ahead as the number of Notices of Default is a leading indicator of the foreclosure real estate market.

The foreclosure statistics in these counties reveal some interesting trends in the Oregon housing market, including the following:

What is a Short Sale?

The definition of a Short Sale is…

1. What happens to the seller’s credit rating when they allow an investor to short sell their property?…

Wave goodbye to traditional financing.

Some investors are looking to option every deal and then sell with an assignment fee. But there are times this just doesn’t make sense. In those times you’re going to need money and sometimes, lots of it. Where are you going to get the capital to keep your buying and selling business going?

Well, apparently not from traditional lenders. From 2000 to 2006 1 out of every 400 deals involved seller financing. Today 1 out of every 50 deals involves seller financing. To put it another way, there is now 8 times less traditional financing available then there was just a few years ago!

To borrow money in today’s lending climate, you need:

1) To cultivate people who have capital to lend you–whether it’s from private lenders who are “hard money” sources or relatives and friends who are “medium money” and “soft money” sources.

2) To have a strategy to find these “lender partners” over the long haul.

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