Inspections May Affect Short Sale Outcomes - 07/19/12 01:27 PM
Throughout the course of a conventional real estate transaction, home inspections and appraisals are utilized to help the buyer--and their lender--understand exactly what they are about to get into. Even though most states require homesellers to provide prospective buyers with a property disclosures form, inspections and appraisals help buyers understand property conditions that may not be apparent with the naked, untrained eye. It's hard to believe that most homebuyers in this day and age would even consider getting into a real estate deal without an inspection, but recent studies show that only 84 percent of buyers request an inspection as a … (6 comments)

Don't Drink the Doom and Gloom Kool-aid - 07/13/12 12:49 PM
On the way into the office this morning I heard a local news report that the number of foreclosures is expected to increase this month significantly. The talk show host then proceeded to explain to her listeners that doom and gloom is on the way and that we are never going to recover from the foreclosure crisis. I sent her a link from my previous blog post about shadow inventory. While I doubt that she will ever read the article, I wonder to what degree the media's negative attention to the real estate market will affect the opinions of consumers. 
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