This business practice is being used more often to try to alleviate the foreclosure crisis being experienced in the US. Willing sellers have to arrange for short sale approval with their lender if they want to sell their property in this way.
The short sale is an arrangement that is made between the bank, or lender where a home owners’ mortgage is held, the current owner of the home, and a buyer who is interested in purchasing a property. This is not a legislated process like a foreclosure, it is an accepted business transaction between the parties involved to resolve a default situation on the home owners mortgage.
The foreclosure crisis has placed a great many homeowners in very precarious positions. But it is not only the home owner who is suffering the lender is also being placed in a precarious position by the foreclosure crisis. Loan defaults and REO’s are non-performing assets, while current loans are performing assets.
This means if they have too many foreclosure in their inventories they have too many non-performing assets, in short they are not making money on these. They have too turn this situation around and do it quickly, hence the reason why they are giving approval for more and more short sales to take place.
A short sale means that the lender give the home owner whose loan is in default approval to sell their property for less than the amount owed on the mortgage in order to pay the debt in full. There is generally a deficiency in arrangements of this nature and many states allow the lender to pursue a deficiency judgment to recover the balance of the amount owing on the debt.
Without going into too much detail, it is generally more financially viable for the lender to give approval for the short sale to take place. This is because the foreclosure process costs a huge amount of money and as the real estate market is so depressed, even if the lender receives full market value for the property when they sell it, this amount will not cover the amount owed on the mortgage.
Basically what happens is the home owner applies for a short sale, his loan has to be in default to do so. The lender looks at the numbers, assesses what it would cost for the foreclosure to take place and what they might be able to get out of the short sale. If the numbers look better in terms of allowing a short sale to proceed they give approval. The home owner is required to provide undisputable evidence that they are experiencing extreme financial hardship in order for this to be allowed.
In the long term it is far better for a short sale to take place for both the home owner and the lender. As far as the home owner is concerned this process saves their credit rating to some extent and they are able to raise credit again in a shorter time than they would be able to with a foreclosure. The Sale takes place, the lender gets their money, the buyer generally gets a cheaper property, and if the lender is lucky, the new owner will apply for a mortgage with them and they are again in control of another performing asset as apposed to a non-performing asset.
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