Cape Coral Real Estate

Une “short sale” s’applique lorsqu’un propriétaire désire vendre sa propriété dont la valeur marchande est inférieure au montant du crédit hypothécaire en place. En effet, ces derniers temps, il arrive souvent qu’un propriétaire d’une maison à Cape Coral ou même à Fort Myers en Floride, est obligé de mettre un prix en dessous de son prêt hypothécaire pour pouvoir trouver un acheteur.

Une fois cet acheteur trouvé, l’agent immobilier doit présenté l’offre d’achat à la banque et souvent négocier un prix de telle sorte que la banque devra forcément perdre de l’argent. Pour ce propriétaire, c’est un moyen d’éviter que leur bien immobilier ne soit saisi, spécialement lorsque ce propriétaire à Cape Coral n’a plus les moyens de payer son prêt.

De plus, il est malheureusement conseillé au prêteur d’arreter de payer les paiements mensuels et de prouver à la banque qu’il n’est plus en mesure d’affronter ses paiements, de tel manière que la banque favorise une vente à perte plutôt que de passer par la saisie (foreclosure) qui est souvent beaucoup plus couteuse pour la banque.

Souvent, un acheteur fera une bonne affaire en achetant une “short sale” mais dans des délais souvent très long. Il n’est pas rare de voir une banque prendre entre 3 et 12 mois pour donner une réponse à une offre, et elle peut etre négative! Tout dépend de quelle banque il s’agit. Souvent, le prix demandé pour une “short sale” est un prix très bas pour attirer une offre et pouvoir négocier un prix plus décent pour la banque. Cette dernière voudra perdre le moins possible évidement.

En générale, je ne conseille pas une “short sale” à mes clients. Mais si vous voulez vraiment acheter une “short sale”, voici quelques conseils a prendre en considération:

1) Que le représentant de la banque et l’agent immobilier aient une relation solide entre eux
2) Que la banque a déja approuvé le prix de vente.
3) Que l’agent immobilier a déja acquis une certaine experience avec les “short sales”.

Seulement 30% a 35% des “short sales” sont vendues avec succès. Le reste du temps, les acheteurs sont lassés d’attendre des mois et des mois pour une réponse de la banque qui n’arrive pas. De plus, certaines de ces propriétés nécésitent des travaux qui n’en font plus de bonnes affaires. Il s’agira de bien regarder le bien immobilier en question et voir si cela en vaut la chandelle.

Si vous désirez acheter une maison à Cape Coral, un appartement à Fort Myers, un terrain à Lehigh Acres ou meme un hotel sur Sanibel, n’hésitez pas à me contacter. Je suis un agent immobilier francophone sur Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, Fort Myers Beach et Sanibel en Floride.

Claude Thomas, Realtor
www.1capecoral.com
info@1capecoral.com
239-240-7346

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Comments (0) Jan 02 2012

I just got this article from Realtor.com regarding the areas with the highest price rising and the highest price decrease. It’s very interesting for us since the Cape Coral – Fort Myers area is number one as the highest rising price area. Have a look:

Southern metro areas dominated a list of the 10 markets with the biggest year-over-year increases in median list price in April, according to monthly data released this week by Realtor.com. The data considers 146 metro areas nationwide.

Two Florida markets saw the highest jumps: median list price in Fort Myers-Cape Coral rose 25.7 percent to $225,000, and the median in Miami rose 8.6 percent to $239,000.

Shreveport-Bossier City, La., followed with an 8.1 percent increase, to $173,000. Fort Myers-Cape Coral and Miami also saw the biggest year-over-year drops in inventory: -25.3 percent and -29.9 percent, respectively.

The two Florida markets were the only metros in the top 10 to move properties at a slower rate than the national median: 95 days. Median age of inventory for each was 116 and 129 days, respectively.

In order to obtain the median age of inventory for each market, Realtor.com subtracted a property’s listed date from whichever was earlier: its end listing date or the end of the time period, and took the median of all the resulting individual days on the website.

The three other Southern metros to make the list were Charleston, W.V.; Tyler, Texas; and the Virginia segment of the Washington, D.C. metro area. (Realtor.com separates data for metro areas that encompass multiple states.) The Washington, D.C., metro was the fastest-moving among the 10 markets with a median inventory age of 57 days.

In the U.S. overall, the median list price fell 4 percent year-over-year in April, to $191,900.

Two Midwestern metros (Columbia, Mo.; and Peoria-Pekin, Ill.) and two Western metros (Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.; and Anchorage, Alaska) made the list. No market in the Northeast was among the top 10.

Eight of the 10 metros saw their inventory decline year-over-year last month, six of them by double-digit percentages. Only Anchorage and Tyler saw their total listings rise: 15.7 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively.

Nationally, total listings fell 8.3 percent.

Among the 10 markets with the fastest-dropping median list prices, Western metro areas prevailed, accounting for six among the top 10; two are in the South and two are in Midwest. All 10 saw double-digit declines compared to April 2010. No Northeastern market made that top 10 list.

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, Calif., saw the biggest price decline: down 26.2 percent to $498,250. The market was also one of two to see its inventory rise year-over-year, by 6 percent. The other was Reno, Nev., with a 9.5 percent increase.

Inventory declined by double digits in six of the remaining eight markets. Savannah, Ga., experienced the sharpest decline: -48.3 percent.

Savannah was also one of three markets with a median age of inventory above the national median. The market’s median inventory age was 198 days in April, though that represents an 11.2 percent decline from April 2010.

I hope you bought last year. If not, give me a call to begin right away. It’s still time to build some serious equity here, in the Cape.

Comments (0) May 25 2011

Yes, these are the top mistakes to avoid in order to have your short sales approved and eventually closed as I experience them with my fellow agents who work with me on short sales.

~ Not submitting multiple offers.
My experience tells me that providing multiple offers to the lender has indeed helped to show that the agent is doing all he/she can do to get the home sold. The multiple offers will make the difference. However, the servicing lenders generally do not like them. There is a second benefit to it: if the selected buyer walks, there is another purchase contract that can carry the deal to close.

~ Not submitting a proposal.
Many short sale agents just send a complete short sale package. It is true that you must have complete documentation, but it is important to draft a full proposal, as well. Organizing your request to approve a short sale has often made the difference between success and failure with the agents.
Also, many agents still think that the servicing lender is the one who approves the short sale and that they can actually negotiate with that lender’s “negotiator”. However, most loan notes are actually owned by the SMI and either they, or an MI insurance carrier if they have paid off a claim, approve or reject the short sale.

~ Not communicating adequately with parties.
Buyers are patient to a limit. Same with Communicating cooperating agents. You may think about weekly updates to all parties, more often when things happen. You can put a password protected area in your website where buyers and all parties can review the updates. Buyers must be part of the process and be motivated to hang in there when approval takes a long time.

~ Hardship.
Not meeting the definition of “hardship”. Like a criminal case wherein each element of the criminal statute must be proved, in short sale cases the hardship letter and financial documents must prove each element necessary for a secondary market investor to render a finding of “hardship”, and approve the short sale. The hardship letter must contain certain elements, without which, the case will be rejected. Make sure to get it right in the first place because a second attempt will ruined the authenticity of the transaction.

~ The lender’s net.
That’s what will make a short sale go through or not at the end of the day. The most important reason that a short sale is not approved is not meeting the net to lender, calculating the minimum threshold percentage of the fair market value. In the past, secondary market investors utilized the short sale versus REO comparison analysis to approve or reject a short sale. However, almost all SMIs have changed over to the minimum threshold analysis. That analysis ignores the amount of the debt and focuses on proof of the current fair market value of the property. For different SMIs and even different products, there is a set minimum threshold percentage of the fair market value that must be received in order for the proposal to be approved. Many agents erroneously believe they are still using the old comparison analysis.

So, the bottom line is this:
If a proposal meets the definition of hardship and that hardship is supported by the financial documents, you do nothing to cause the servicing lender to tank the proposal, and the offer meets the net to lender minimum threshold percentage of the fair market value, the short sale will be approved and if a qualified buyer remains, the transaction will close.

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Comments (0) Jan 12 2010

First of all, understand the short sales.

A short sale is a transaction that happens when a homeowner is owning more money on his/her home than what it is worth in today’s Real Estate market, and when the bank or the lender is willing to take less than what the homeowner owes.
Most of the time, that bank or lender will be able to collect more money with a short sale than if the homeowner goes into bankruptcy or foreclosure. That’s why they will be listening to short sales under certain circumstances.
For the homeowner, the short sale transaction is a better situation than going bankrupt or foreclosed. They credit will be hurt for 2 or 3 years instead of the 7+ years in a foreclosure situation.

Secondly, here are a list of documents you will need in order to prepare the short sale transaction with the bank representative:

FOR THE REALTOR:

• ~ Signed letter of authorization from seller authorizing you to negotiate with the lender on their behalf.
• ~ Letter of facts about the property. Everything that is wrong with the property and why it is impossible to sell it at a higher price.
• ~ Current Market Analysis. Highlight comparable sales that reflect the lower value.
• ~ Photographs. Remember, the photographs aren’t to highlight a charming house. Photograph evidence of damage, bad location, etc…
• ~ Evidence of all showings and feedback. Explain to lender results and conversations you’ve had while trying to sell the property.
• ~ Copy of listing contract/MLS Listing/MLS history.
• ~ Current “AS IS” CMA.
• ~ Copy of purchase contract if you have one.
• ~ Preliminary HUD
• ~ Make sure the seller has a detailed, tear jerking letter of hardship. See an example here
• ~ Sales and services Quotes

Also, insert copies of the following if any:
1. Code Violations
2. Fines
3. Hearing Information regarding the maintenance of the property
4. Evidence of lawsuits the City is filing against lenders
5. Evidence of pending litigation or changes in the law
6. Insert Tenant / Landlord provisions if it helps your case
7. Evidence of the town / city’s enforcement of fines against other banks
8. Latent Material Defect
9. Sexual offenders and predators

FROM THE SELLER:

-Two years tax returns and W-2’s.
-Three months bank statements.
-Pay stubs for last 30 days.
-Detailed monthly budget.
-All mortgages with account numbers.
-Copy of the deed.
-Copy of the note and/or mortgage
-Pending bankruptcy, or other action/judgment or lis pendens.
-Tear jerking hardship letter. See an example here

Buyers generally get a lot more house for their money in a short sale situation, because these properties are usually very competitively priced in order for the sellers to unload them before they end up in foreclosure. It’s a very good situation for them. The only downside I see is often the multiple offers situation for those short sale properties. But there are a lot of short sale properties available in the Cape Coral Florida market than in other parts of the country, so this area is the place to buy!.

So, if you are thinking of buying a short sale, here are 3 tips:

1 – Find a Realtor with short sales experience. There are many rigorous short sales and foreclosure training programs available to real estate agents, including the Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) and the Short Sales and Foreclosures Resource Certification (SFR). If you wish to purchase a short sale property in Cape Coral, Florida, or anywhere else for that matter, you will greatly increase your chances of getting your deal to closing if your agent is experienced and comfortable with short sales….either through a short sales certification program, or through hard knocks experience in the field.

2 – Get pre-approved. No short sale offer will be considered without a pre-approval or a proof of funds letter. If you have not yet been pre-approved by a local lender and are not sure who to call, your real estate agent is a good source of referrals. The pre-qualification process generally takes less than 30 minutes, and can be done over the phone, however, a pre-approval takes longer but is better than a pre-qualification. Make sure you work with a local lender – today’s wild & woolly finance environment means that you greatly increase your chances of closing a deal if you use a local lender with a good reputation. All short sale offers must be submitted with a pre-approval letter, or with a proof of funds, as bank’s statements, in the case of a cash transaction.

3) Submit your highest and best offer the first time around! Lenders generally do not counteroffer….they will either say “Yes” or “No”. So if you are going to go through the process of waiting 60 days or more to hear back from the lender, you will greatly increase your chances of hearing that “Yes!” if you submit a good, solid offer with no contingencies.

Once you submit an offer that is approved by the seller, the seller has to submit your offer to their lender to see if the lender will accept the offer as well….remember, in a short sale situation the lender is agreeing to accept less than what the homeowner owes on the mortgage…..and the lender is going to do whatever they can to minimize the amount of that loss to their bottom line. Parting with their profits is not something that comes easy to lenders…..so it takes awhile to find out if they are willing to take the level of financial beating that is inherent in the amount you are offering. Sometimes the wait can be up to 90 days….sometimes much more (the amount of the wait often depends upon which lender holds the paper).

Look at the frustrating wait time as the price you pay for getting the chance to get a home you might not otherwise be able to afford.

If you want to receive listing from banks, this program will give tremendous help to get in the game as well.

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Comments (0) Dec 31 2009

Last week, I answered a question that doesn’t just apply to short sales, but really to any type of property for sale right now…The question is, “What is your percentage closing on your short sales listings?”…

We all know that here in Cape Coral, the short sales are a big part of our business. So I think it is important to understand how to to better with short sales.
My answer to this question is always the same…

“It all depends on how good of an offer you have on the property”. You see, if you have a good offer, then it’s likely your deal will get closed…If you have a crappy offer, then it’s likely your deal will not get closed…

I know there should be more to it, but it really is that simple, money rules here.
The question then is how do you get more activity, and generate more solid offers on your short sales listings?…
I’m about to give you a tip that may have a HUGE impact…
This tip has to do with the remark area in your MLS sheet…
I am often amazed when I see what some short sale Realtors® put in their remarks, like this one for example:

“Subject to lender approval, allow 60 days for lender to respond, commission may be reduced, no reps, warranties, if I were you I would stay away from this property and not show it…”

Okay, I’m a bit pushy about the last part but when you see remarks like that as a buyers agent, are you going to put that
property at the top of your pile or at the bottom?…

Think about it, take a look at your M.L.S. remarks and ask yourself, if I was a buyers agent, would I want to show this property?
Then think about how you can improve it, even ask other Realtors for their opinion…
What if making the slightest change could result in 2 extra showings for your property, which today could be the difference between your property selling or not.

Think of your MLS remarks as the best free advertising you will ever get. Having the right remarks may generate more activity then any marketing $$$ that you spend…If you have short sale listings right now, try a variation of these remarks…Make sure to show your are here to help in anyway, that you are available for anything.

“Offer and commission subject to lender approval, we always submit our short sales for full 6% commission, BPO already completed, can close FAST. Experienced short sale agent, I get them closed, call me for any question you may have, I’m here to help you to close this baby and to get you paid…”

You’ll become more successful in the short sales field, it will be noticed and it will bring you more business…

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Comments (1) Dec 09 2009