Home Foreclosures
San Diego real estate – home foreclosures
San Diego real estate
Being in the trenches … the front line of local San Diego real estate activity, it’s hard for me to believe that we just passed through the “Summer of recovery” at least it was according to this administration’s proclamations.
Although many of the real estate reports for San Diego indicate that sales have increased last month, they also show that home prices have continued to fall. The sales increase in my opinion can be totally attributed to normal seasonal factors. What is really troubling, is the fact that during our seasonally strong traditional marketing period which just ended last month, home prices in San Diego were still in decline. Read more 
San Diego Mortgage Default Rate Drops
San Diego foreclosures
According to MDA DataQuick, a real estate analysis firm based in La Jolla, during the first half of this year, there were 5,458 notices of default in San Diego County and 3,315 foreclosures. The San Diego real estate default rate has dropped nearly 45 percent from last year!
A 45% decline in San Diego home foreclosures sounds good on the surface, but, one should be aware of the fact that the huge number of San Diego short sales was the main cause of the drop in foreclosures.
If one considers the number of San Diego short sales, the actual San Diego foreclosure rate has slid less than 6 percent.
San Diego Homeowners – End Up Screwed
San Diego home foreclosures
Under-water San Diego homeowners are left with two not-very-appealing choices: stop making payments, take a major credit hit and risk the lender seeking a court judgment for the balance of the loan — or keep paying and hope the house begins to appreciate, however little, again.
There are many government programs to help homeowners in trouble & I advise all distressed San Diego homeowners to seek out these programs. However, from the recent reports on the performance of these good intentioned programs … so far they have been dismal failures!
Perhaps the government needs to understand that there is nothing wrong with renting! Some of the many under-water homeowners were simply not suited to own a home!
What of the San Diego homeowners who are not under–water on their mortgages? What benefit is there for homeowners that were resourceful, hardworking and buying only what they could afford when they could afford it?
The majority are offended that they — and their children and their grandchildren — will be paying for someone else’s mortgage woes through higher taxes.
California home foreclosures
San Diego Foreclosures Rise
San Diego foreclosures
Data from ForeclosureRadar shows San Diego home foreclosures fillings took a 19.81% rise from July into August. On the good news side, this figure was down 24.38% from a year ago.
For California, notices of Default filings, the first step in the foreclosure process, jumped 16.6 percent in August, the fourth successive increase in as many months. Fewer homeowners found foreclosure relief as foreclosure cancellations dropped 11.2 percent while more homes were lost, up 15.6 percent to 17,841 foreclosure sales.
Sean O’Toole, CEO for ForeclosureRadar said: “We’ve seen these kinds of upticks before, my guess is, we’re still just bouncing around in this range.”
San Diego Home Mortgage Defaults Easing
San Diego home mortgage defaults
San Diego County defaults fell 39% in the first quarter of 2010 vs. 1st. quarter of 2009 MDA DataQuick reported yesterday.
There were 6,170 notices of default for the quarter, down from 10,111 a year earlier, and 2,263 for March, down from 3,832 in March 2009. Foreclosures totaled 3,096 in the first quarter, slightly up from 3,073 a year ago, and 1,137 in March, up from 734 in March 2009. Read more
San Diego Home Foreclosures Jump 41.9%
San Diego foreclosures
Although default notices dropped to their lowest level in more than a year in December, MDA DataQuick reported yesterday, the number of foreclosures rocketed up for December, up 41.9 percent from November and up 20.9 percent from a year earlier.
DataQuick president John Walsh said.“Clearly, many lenders and (loan) servicers have concluded that the traditional foreclosure process isn’t necessarily the best way to process market distress.”