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Orlando Real Estate Market – What can be expected in 2013?

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

The tentative economic conditions will continue to impact the real estate market in Florida and particularly in Orlando even this year. Home prices are expected to rise again due to decreasing inventory facing its lowest phase since February 2006. As per the market research, the 2013 appreciation is expected to increase up to 3%. Some investors even expect the prices to climb up to 4%. If the price range will go so much higher, then it may drastically affect market conditions. The changes in price may emerge around the spring season. So, it’s better for investors to crack the deal before the prices climb.

The interest rates for the Bienes raíces en Orlando market are expected to remain low. The rate may get low as 3% according to The Federal Reserve. The lower interest rates may neutralize the price hike of houses. This can be encouraging for the recovery of the real estate market.

Not only the home prices, but the mortgage guidelines are also going to face changes. There are reports of rules to become stricter for mortgage refinance. This step is being considered to help borrowers for being more responsible with their mortgage loans. Borrowers may even avoid defaulting on their mortgage by following the new set of rules. According to the new rules, borrowers must have to submit more documents for a mortgage refinance. The financial stability of the borrower will also be scrutinized minutely. The range of the qualifying credit score may be from 580 to 620. Insurance premiums of FHA are also expected to increase.

The diminishing inventory is also a decisive factor for the real estate market in Orlando in 2013. The shrinking inventory may aggravate the competition for quality properties in Orlando. So, the scope of getting multiple offers at a time will increase automatically.

Many market experts explain the Bienes raíces en Orlando market as a seller’s market. Of course, the rise in home prices proves this claim. These market conditions are more favorable for sellers.

The construction of new homes may also bring huge changes in the real estate market. The degree of change depends largely on future economic alterations. Experienced professionals are expecting the gap between the new home sales and the re-sale to get broadened. Builders may offer lesser incentives to buy properties. This may be a good time to build profitable properties.

As the market condition is suggesting, the investors must take advantage of the beneficial situation before it’s too late. The overall market predictions are favorable till now, but the situations may change if the world economy takes a turn. The same applies to a mortgage refinance too. It’s advisable to decide on refinancing after judging the market.

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7 Tips for Getting the Best Price on Quality Homeowners Insurance

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

Homeowner’s insurance is something we hope we’ll never have to make use of, but no one knows when disaster may strike. Buying a home in Orlando, or anywhere for that matter, is a major investment. So, it only makes sense to protect it and, if your home is mortgaged, your lender will require that it is insured.

Here are seven tips to consider when buying house insurance.

  1. Know the value of your home. It is very important to know your home’s replacement cost as a basic homeowner’s policy may not be enough to replace your entire home. Make sure.
  2. Choose an insurance company with a good reputation. Research a company’s claims service, as well as its financial stability. A low premium is no bargain if it takes an insurer forever to process your claim. On the other hand, the mortgage company through which you obtained your mortgage may offer you their own type of insurance policy. Often, this type of policy will cost three times a much, so it’s far better to look elsewhere for coverage.
  3. As with most other purchases, you should comparison shop to make sure you’re getting the best possible price. Be aware that the same or a similar product may be priced differently by different companies. It always pays to shop around. By comparing prices at several different insurers, you can be sure you’re getting the best possible coverage at the best possible price.
  4. Consider extra coverage. Depending on where you live, it may be advisable to add coverage for natural disasters such as lightning strikes, wind, hail or snowstorms. It is also worthwhile to have protection against smoke damage, theft, vandalism, explosions and plumbing disasters. This will undoubtedly add to your premiums but, depending on your circumstances, may be worth budgeting for.
  5. Make sure you fully understand the protection you’re getting. Read your policy carefully and speak to your insurance agent about any questions or concerns you may have.
  6. Ask for discounts. Many companies offer reduced rates for behaviors that diminish risk. An example would be if your household is non-smoking.
  7. Keep your policy updated and always reread it before you file a claim to avoid any surprises. Your idea of fair compensation may not be the same as that of your insurer. You need to be able to prove your losses so that you can get what you need to replace them.
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Fixing your credit after an Orlando short sale

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

Getting your credit score back on track after your short sale is complete

 

The local economy is recovering “slowly but surely”, the housing market is getting stronger and the term  “Orlando short sale” has become a household name. Delinquent homeowners generally elect to pursue a short sale as opposed to going through foreclosure or bankruptcy.
Short sales have become so common in fact that it’s hard to find someone that hasn’t heard of a short sale as opposed to just a few short years ago when most people had no clue what a short sale was.

 

A short sale is when a mortgage holder tries to sell their property for less than what is owed. The delinquent homeowner must first get permission from their lender in order to pursue the short sale. Homeowners will typically seek out a short sale when they can no longer afford to pay the mortgage or the house owes much more than what the property is worth. Banks have come to the realization that they actually lose more money by taking a property to foreclosure as opposed to a short sale.

 

Many people will argue that a short sale will affect you far less than a foreclosure but the truth is that whether a seller does a short sale or foreclosure the points you lose are about the same. Fair Issac says the average points lost on a FICO score are as follows:

30 days late: 40 to 110 points
90 days late: 70 to 135 points
Foreclosure, short sale or deed-in-lieu: 85 to 160
Bankruptcy: 130 to 240

 

People who Opt for an Orlando short sale will have a much better chance of qualifying for a mortgage in the future.

It depends a lot on how the lender records or reports the sale once the transaction is complete. A short sale is usually recorded by the lender as a settlement as opposed to a paid debt. When the lender reports the sale as “settled”, it appears on a credit report as the lender accepting less than what  was owed. This will always have a negative affect on credit scores. However, if you’re able to get the lender to record the sale as “paid”, then your credit score will not suffer any further. The chances of this happening are slim to none and it takes some really good negotiating skills by your Orlando realtor with the short sale lender in order to accomplish this improbable task.

 

 

According to some mortgage brokers that I work with, it’s much easier to get someone a loan that has a short sale on their credit as opposed to having a foreclosure on their credit, even after several years have passed. The best thing to do once your short sale has gone to closing, is to contact several of these Credit repair companies and find out what they are offering. My suggestion, as always would be to  Google “credit repair companies” and contact all the companies that appear on page 1. Credit repair has become very competitive and most companies will work with you on an affordable payment plan.

 

 

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Banks are becoming more experienced with Orlando short sales making things easier for realtors

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

Banks are getting much faster at the Orlando short sale process

Short sales have had a bad reputation in the Orlando real estate market for several years now. Realtors didn’t want to take on short sale properties either because they didn’t know what was involved and were afraid of getting in over their head or because they knew exactly what was involved and they didn’t want to commit to the hard work that’s involved in completing an Orlando short sale. Buyers didn’t like them because of the time that it would take to hear back from the bank about their offer that was submitted. Sometimes a potential buyer would submit a contract and have to wait three or four months just to find out that their offer wasn’t accepted, and all that time they spent waiting to hear back from the bank could have been utilized searching for other properties. This was extremely frustrating for everyone involved.

Lenders also must have felt frustrated because the truth is they just weren’t prepared to take on all these short sales. They weren’t prepared to handle short sales period… let alone hundreds of thousands of them coming at them at once. I believe that this is probably one of the reasons why loss mitigators would often tell agents that they didn’t receive certain documentation over and over again, or they would say things like we needed these docs in a certain order or a month later they would tell you to send everything again because it needs to be updated. Any experienced Orlando short sale realtors that are reading this post right know exactly what I’m talking about. In my opinion, these were stall tactics because lenders didn’t know how to get these short sales processed in an efficient manner.

Orlando short sales are being fast tracked thanks to experienced negotiators

Short sales are now being processed much faster than was the case just a year ago. Lenders have come a long way in putting systems in place to make things move more smoothly for the homeowner as well as the Orlando realtor processing the whole thing. I feel that the biggest change, however, is because of the short sale negotiators having much more experience in dealing with short sales now. At the end of the day, Big banks don’t run things, people do, and for some people, it’s easier to say that they didn’t receive something or come up with some other type of lame stalling tactic rather than to admit that they didn’t know what they doing.

Lately,  I’ve noticed a huge difference in the way that short sale negotiators handle short sale files. They’ve gotten better in every area; from ordering the BPO to negotiating with their investors and even getting extensions on payoff letters. I have about a dozen or so negotiators with several different lenders that I just love working with because “they get it”, they know how this business works and they will do whatever it takes to get the deal done.  Don’t get me wrong, I still have conversations with some short sale negotiators that frustrate me to no end because they are clueless about the Bienes raíces en Orlando market or real estate in general yet they still try to tell me how much I should list an Orlando property for, but for the most part it’s gotten much much better.

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Fannie Mae Making great Strides in the Orlando Short Sale Process

Publicado el por Jenny Zamora

Fannie Mae is taking the Lead on making short sales move even faster for Orlando homeowners

It’s amazing to see how far certain lenders have come in the way of helping homeowners to get their Orlando short sales approved. In the not-so-distant past, some of the major lenders were hell bent on making the short sale process a nightmare for not only the homeowners but also, the short sale realtors that had to work the entire process. Then even after you’ve submitted the complete package to the lender dotting every I and crossing every t, you would then have to re-submit the entire short sale package several times over either because it needed to be updated or the lender had lost it or claimed to have never received it. I know this may sound absurd to some of you but believe it or not, this used to happen on just about every single file at least once or twice.

It’s only been in the last year or so that we’ve seen a drastic change in the way that lenders handle Orlando short sales in General. There are systems in place such as HudHomes.Gov that some lenders use which make short sales move along a lot faster. And with systems like these in place, no longer can negotiators claim to have never received certain documents or that they’ve lost them. It’s as easy as logging into your account and uploading every page that they request. This was just one of the steps which began to streamline the short sale process.

Since then, there have been laws implemented by congress which require lenders to respond within 60 days of a short sale offer being presented, this was Huge! Even bigger, was when Lenders started giving homeowners large “Cash for Keys” incentives to complete short sales. Not only were homeowners able to get their debt forgiven, but they were able to receive enough cash at closing to start over in a new life.

Most recently, Fannie has come out with new guidelines for loan servicers to follow.  The new guidelines are a part of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Servicing Alignment Initiative. The idea is to prevent more foreclosures and help neighborhoods to stabilize.

Fannie Mae’s new guideline changes

• Hardships. Servicers will now be permitted to approve a short sale for borrowers who have certain kinds of hardships but are still current on their loans. Also, in order to reduce paperwork, no documentation of hardship will be required for borrowers who are 90 days or more delinquent and have a credit score lower than 620.

• 2nd-lien payments limited to $6,000. Before, 2nd lien holders often attempted to negotiate higher payments. The loan servicer will be able to offer the maximum payment of $6,000 in order to facilitate the transaction. By setting a standard payout amount and a limit for every transaction, Fannie Mae is removing the guesswork in order to accelerate the short sale process.

• Servicers will have more authority to approve and complete short sales. All servicers will have the authority to approve and complete short sales that conform to the requirements without receiving individual approval from Fannie Mae. Sometimes this part of the process added several months to short sale negotiations.

Jenny Zamora Lic RE Broker, Orlando

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