Fort Myers Leading Nation in Foreclosure Discounts
[caption id="attachment_5883" align="aligncenter" width="500"] source: RealtyTrac[/caption] Fort Myers heads the list of “Top 20 Cities for ...
Read More[caption id="attachment_5883" align="aligncenter" width="500"] source: RealtyTrac[/caption] Fort Myers heads the list of “Top 20 Cities for ...
Read MoreFort Myers was cited in a recent CNN/Money article as one of seven US markets with half-priced McMansions. The Fort Myers area was heavily ...
Read MoreShort sales can offer real value for buyers of Fort Myers area real estate. Often short sale properties are in good shape as the owner is living ...
Read MoreWhile no one is going to confuse the current market with the investor insanity of 2005 and 2006, there is a growing buzz of investor activity in the ...
Read MoreThe IV has been pulled and the hospital gown is gone as the Fort Myers real estate market passed a monumental recovery milestone last month. For ...
Read MoreThe Washington Post covers the Southwest Florida foreclosure crisis with a powerful photo essay detailing some of the challenges in the market. At ...
Read MoreI just read an article in the New York Times titled The Roller-Coaster Ride Called a Short Sale with great fascination. It seems the post-bubble ...
Read MoreBanks Fast Tracking Short Sale Approvals Just as we were getting ready to dump some tea from the Midpoint Bridge over our continued frustration ...
Read MoreMy inbox today contained an e-mail that really troubled me, here it is (including typos) with the senders name redacted: Subject I BUY AND SELL SHORT ...
Read MoreBusiness Week reports that lenders are stepping up their efforts to collect on deficiency judgments of mortgage defaulters. The article reports that ...
Read MoreWGCU hosted a panel of Southwest Florida real estate experts including Dick Hogan from the Fort Myer News-Press. The panel discussed the state of ...
Read MoreOne of the buyer misconceptions about our current Fort Myers area real estate market is that banks will approve ultra-aggressive, low-ball offers on ...
Read MoreThe Miami Press reports on new guidelines coming out from the U.S. Treasury that will place a 10 day limit on bank approval for a short sale. These ...
Read MoreThe St. Petersburg Times reports that the bottom feeding foreclosure workout firms will face significantly more scrutiny in Florida. These workout ...
Read MoreThe Sarasota Herald Tribune reports on short sale flipping fraud that is becoming more prevalent here in Southwest Florida. In a nutshell, real ...
Read MoreThe real estate market in the greater Fort Myers area has been dominated by foreclosure and short sale activity. This REO activity has driven ...
Read MoreBusiness Week reports on the tightening short sale standards that banks are imposing these transactions. Time frames to close short sale deals are ...
Read MoreAccording to a recent USA Today article, only 23% of short sale deals actually ever close. This figure came from a February 2009 survey by Campbell ...
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