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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (87066)	8/25/2007 2:38:46 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Risky Market, Riskier Deals But now that so many of the riskiest loans, primarily in the subprime market are going bad, that chain is unraveling. So mortgage money is harder to get for those without good credit and cash in the bank. In such a nerve-wracking market, brokers like Cato are scrambling to keep their current deals alive. Over lunch with another real estate agent, he took a call from an unhappy customer whose pending deal for a $650,000 mortgage was suddenly going to cost more. A lot more. By mid-afternoon, it's back on the road. This time, to the Maryland suburbs outside Washington and another meeting with anxious real estate executives. But no sooner were the handshakes out of the way than one veteran real estate man laid out a scary scenario of rising foreclosures and falling prices in his county. "Seven out of 10 sellers that I am talking to now either cannot make their payment or they don't have enough equity to sell their home," Tyrone Armstrong, a veteran realator. "We are looking at a lot of folks now who are going to be looking at foreclosure." abcnews.go.com Explains why many sellers are sticky on their asking price. They have no other source of funds except the remaining home equity.