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Real Estate prices in the US have double dipped nationwide, now lower
than their March 2009 trough, according to a new report from Clear Capital.
It was inevitable, and it was predicted (by me for sure) that a surge in sales of foreclosed real estate and a big
push by banks to facilitate short sales would force home prices down dramatically.
Sales of bank-owned (REO) properties hit 34.5 percent of the market, according to the survey, resulting in a
national price drop of 4.9 percent quarterly and 5 percent year-over-year. National home prices have fallen 11.5
percent in the past nine months, a rate not seen since 2008. Add short sales, where the bank allows the
borrower to sell for less than the value of the mortgage , and prices have nowhere to go but down.
"With more than one-third of national home realty sales being REO (bank owned), market prices are being
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While buyer demand is rising, thanks to a slowly improving jobs picture, mortgage availability is still very
difficult for the low to middle-income borrower, and falling prices don't help already weak consumer confidence
in the housing market. If prices continue to fall further, which they likely will in the short term, the number of
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