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News: An Unprecedented 33 Months of Coming Foreclosures
An alarming report released by The Standard & Poor’s (S&P) financial company announced that the so-called hidden supply of REOs and pending foreclosures will most likely take at least 33 months or realistically a minimum of three years to rectify itself if and only if liquidation rates hold steady.
Even more upsetting is that the S&P called its estimate “conservative” because the company’s analysis was based on the number of properties the company believes to be lurking in the shadows right now.
This list includes repossessed homes that banks have not put on the market and already delinquent mortgages that may likely turn into foreclosures largely due to unemployment looming around the 10 percent level.
Mortgage analysts nationwide fear that the S&P’s assessment does not take into account any loans that have yet to show serious signs of distress which may only add to the foreclosure fatalities mentioned above.
It is hard to put a finger on the potential mortgage fall out since the ratings agency has not released any specific number of loans in their calculated obscured supply.
However, they said the current and original balance of seriously delinquent and REO loans stands at approximately $426.3 billion.
An earlier study made months ago by Amherst Securities estimates this demoralizing fiscal blunder to encompass about 7 million loans.
Another financial institution, First American CoreLogic, places a larger gap with the actual number saying it is closer to 1.7 million.
At this point, the actual number seems irrelevant as we assuredly brace for additional financial turmoil in the coming months.
“It is our opinion that recent positive housing reports should not be construed as a sign that the distress in the residential housing market is abating, but rather should be attributed to the temporarily limited supply of homes on the market,” as stated by analysts at Standard & Poor’s.
Source: DSNews.com
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