Foreclosures in Clark County Is Likely To Cross 30,000
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Clark County is likely to cross 30,000 this year in its number of home foreclosed homes. Last year, the number of home foreclosures in the real estate area of this county stood at 11,509. According to some data, there were about 2,974 foreclosures in the month of November. This added up to the total making it 28,133 till date. It has been found that the monthly number in October is up from 2,653 and at the same time over double the foreclosures in the month of 2007 November that was 1,407. The housing market of Las Vegas is in big problem. The value of homes has declined heavily.
It has been noticed that nearly 60 percent of the homes sales activity in the month of October were owned by the bank where the median price was $166,000. However, a positive thing that has been seen is that the pre-foreclosure filings in Clark County have dropped down for the second straight month. The number of pre-foreclosure filings in September in this county was 6,565, that in October were 6,429, and in November were 5,830. This is a good sign indeed. According to real estate professional Alexis McGee, “These latest numbers are great news because preforeclosures are early signals of what’s to come,”
McGee further said, “The nation’s foreclosure free fall may be subsiding. We still have a long way to go and some of the recent numbers are skewed by lender programs for homeowners that delay rather than eliminate foreclosures.” Efforts have been made by the banks and government to help the distressed homeowners in fighting with foreclosure. According to some data, the banks took over 2,454 homes in the month of October. This dragged the year-to-date aggregate to 21,025. This is up by 234 percent from what it was a year back.
As said by real estate expert Larry Murphy, “Those things are going to be with us for a while. “The first round of foreclosures was subprime borrowers who had no business buying a house anyway, but the second round is people who had a job and were doing OK.” Another real estate professional Troy Kearns said that the lenders show more interest in dealing with foreclosures. Murphy said that the pre-foreclosure filings that start of with default notice does not always end into foreclosure. A number of houses are bought during pre-foreclosure. The cost is then cut down by 20 percent to 40 percent below its market value.
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