{"id":1641,"date":"2010-07-23T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T22:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmlsweb.wordpress.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T22:46:04","slug":"how-well-are-short-sales-and-bank-owned-properties-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmlscentral.com\/v1\/2010\/07\/23\/how-well-are-short-sales-and-bank-owned-properties-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"How Well are Short Sales and Bank Owned Properties Selling?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terms like \u201cshort sales\u201d and \u201cbank-owned\u201d are on many people\u2019s tongues and minds in the real estate industry. The recent addition of the Short Sale and Bank Owned fields on RMLSweb<\/em> now allow us to look at data for these listings individually.<\/p>\n

Before there was a short sale field on RMLSweb<\/em>, there was only a \u201c3rd<\/sup> Party to Transaction\u201d field. As you may know, \u201c3rd<\/sup> Party to Transaction\u201d listings are not always short sales. They may also be estate sales or relocations. In order for you to identify short sales more efficiently, the RMLS\u2122<\/sup> Board voted to add these new fields, a change that occurred July 29, 2009. This also helps the other types of properties that require 3rd Party approval to get fair attention. RMLS\u2122<\/sup> has added the following fields regarding short sales:<\/p>\n

Short Sale Yes\/No<\/strong> \u2013 will be required when entering a listing and 3rd Party to Transaction will be automatically checked when Yes is selected.<\/p>\n

Short Sale Offer (Seller Accepted; Submitted for Approval) Yes\/No<\/strong>\u2013 The rules will be revised to require updating this field when an offer is made.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> last year, we compared 3rd<\/sup> Party to Transaction sales to the total active listings on the market. Now, with the recent addition of these new fields, we can look at short sale data and bank owned data more specifically and also compare them to the market as a whole. The graph below shows you the total number of active listings in RMLSweb<\/em> as of today July 23, 2010, compared to the number of active listings that are checked Short Sale Yes, and also compared to those that are marked Bank Owned. The number of active short sales in comparison to the total number of active listings is approximately 11.7%, while the number of active bank owned properties in comparison to the total number of active listings is about 5.4%.<\/p>\n

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As you can see from the above graph, the number of active short sales and bank owned properties is a small fraction of the number of total active listings. There were 31,762 total active listings, 3,731 total active short sales and 1,715 total active bank owned listings.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019ve looked at active listings, let\u2019s compare total pending sales in the market with pending short sales and pending bank owned properties. The graph below depicts this comparison using data from RMLSweb<\/em> on July 23rd<\/sup>, 2010:<\/p>\n

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There were 5,094 total pending listings, 877 pending short sales and 913 pending bank owned properties.<\/p>\n

Last, let\u2019s take a look at sold listings. The graph below shows that there were 17,751 total sold listings from the period of January 1, 2010 to June 30th<\/sup>, 2010. The number of sold short sales was 1,620, just 9.1% of total sold listings. Bank owned listings sold at a higher rate with 3,422 sales, which is approximately 19.3% of total sold listings.<\/p>\n

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Visit the National Association of Realtors\u00ae website<\/a> for more information on short sales and bank owned properties.<\/p>\n

Also, stay tuned for future blog posts that will compare prices and the number of days on market for short sales and bank owned properties, to the market as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terms like \u201cshort sales\u201d and \u201cbank-owned\u201d are on many people\u2019s tongues and minds in the real estate industry. The recent addition of the Short Sale and Bank Owned fields on RMLSweb now allow us to look at data for these listings individually. Before there was a short sale field on RMLSweb, there was only a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[70,308],"series":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/rmlscentral.com\/v1\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":false,"player_link":false,"audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Iinki5xppiud4zt7r4evlggzzcy?t=Real_Talk_with_RMLS","label":"Google Play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/rmlscentral.com\/v1\/feed\/podcast","embedCode":"

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