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Potential size of the rental market for REO’s this year is over $100 Billion

Wow, talk about opportunity! According to a recently released report from Corelogic, as a result of the FHFA’s (Federal Housing Finance Agency) implementation of the “REO to Rental Program” whereby Fannie Mae REO’s will be sold in bulk to investors for rental property, there will be potentially over $100 Billion of rental market REO’s in the coming year! The first of these sales was a lot of 2,500 homes sold in February with a market value reported to be around $314 million. [...]

Converting REO’s to rentals could help housing recovery according to Fed Official

Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth A. Duke, while speaking at the Federal Reserve Board Policy Forum last week, discussed the effect on the housing market that properties acquired by banks and lenders through foreclosure (REO’s) and suggested that if some of this inventory was converted to rental property by the lenders, this may have a positive [...]

Undercover Investigation Reveals Possible Discriminatory Treatment of REO’s by Lenders

Forty three years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which included Title VIII, the Fair Housing Act which, as described on HUD’s website, “prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, [...]

New RESPA rules: An End to being forced to use sellers pick of title company?

Dennis Norman

By: Dennis Norman

I don’t like being told what to do; Particularly by a seller of property I’m purchasing.  However, for years I have been told by agents with REO listings that if I don’t use the title company the seller has selected then the seller won’t sell to me.

Thanks to [...]

What’s the deal with REO’s? Are they a good deal? Final Post of the series.

By: Dennis Norman

In parts 1 and 2 of this series I gave my history of buying property and where I found the “good deals” at as well as how the times and technology, most notably the internet, have changed things.  We now find ourselves in a time when information about foreclosures, property sales, homes [...]

What’s the deal with REO’s? Are they a good deal?

By:  Dennis Norman

As I jump around the interenet reading various blogs, news articles and the like about investing in real estate it amazes me how many people out there are looking for REO’s (a label banks and other lenders give the property they take back in foreclosure, Real Estate Owned) as if they are [...]