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Bank of America Offers $20k Short Sale Incentive

Tweet Courtesy of The Palm Beach Post, comes some fresh news for Florida, offering up to $20,000 to short sale vs. foreclosure. The limited time offer has received little promotion from the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank, which sent emails to select Florida Realtors earlier this week outlining basic details of the plan. Only homeowners whose short [...]

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Google Maps adds Foreclosure Results

Tweet Pretty interesting find over at The Big Picture, detailing how to use Google Maps to find foreclosures: Google Maps keeps evolving, expanding the ability to drill down into granular detail. The latest updated trick? Mapping foreclosures for sale. Our friends at Chart Porn — a blog that got its name from one of our posts [...]

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CNN Article – Sales Off by 80% From Peak, New Home Sales Set Record Low

Tweet CNN posted an article just before Thanksgiving discussing the housing market’s continued woes, the inference to short sale investors being that short sales will continue to be a strong portion of the market for the foreseeable future. Some key facts from the article: New home sales dropped to an annual pace of just 283,000, [...]

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Foreclosure Halt Drives Up Short Sales Volume in Florida

Tweet An article published on 10/19 by the Herald in southwest Florida discusses the growth of short sales as a result of the recent moratorium on foreclosures by several lenders, citing: Short sales are in vogue in Southwest Florida, a direct result of the broad halt on foreclosures imposed by some of the nation’s largest [...]

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Fresh Ways to get New Short Sale Leads!

Tweet Everyone knows that a good short sale professional needs to have leads to be productive. That means that part of your workload needs to include finding new opportunities and getting your name out there. It doesn’t matter if you are a short sale investor or agent; without leads you have no work! There are [...]

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