Investing In Foreclosed Property
Ok. Admissions first, my father in law is indeed a tad wiser than myself declaring as he did what I guess could vaguely be considered support for his son in law who together with the rest of the established team at Castleroc Estates in Harcourt Street have come to agree using our combined experience in the U.S. markets that yes there is a great deal of sense in seeking out foreclosed property for sale once you get the basics right and work with the best people possible, let me explain further.
On our side of the world we rarely see or hear of foreclosed houses for sale, the term foreclosed itself is uncommon, I worked for a Bank for most of my adult life and cannot recall the term in use. So what is foreclosure and why should a person want to buy foreclosed property?
We have a guide to the foreclosure process on our website so let’s deal with a practical and common example which is real and based in fact:
An investor bought an apartment property in the Azur development in Metro West, Orlando. It was a very nice 1248 sq ft 2 bed / 2 bath costing $236,900 The unit closed in mid 2006 and has been rented since then. A mortgage was obtained for $177,000 against this property and all was well…until the financial crash. The debates about whether property was a bubble or not were over, the bubble had burst and property everywhere, but especially in Florida and Nevada, started to tank. Today we have this actual unit in our inventory, it has been refurbished, repainted and has all modern appliances included, the price right now is $71,900 and this has a tenant paying $850 per month, the essential costs of holding this unit are property taxes and assessment charges which total $5780, the rent amounts to $10,200, an excess after essential costs of $4420.
But what happened to the investor? Well, in the U.S. mortgages can be obtained on the basis of no recourse to the individual, in this case he had a non recourse mortgage and simply handed the keys back to the Bank and it is from this same Bank that we have secured this unit and all others within our stock.
The notion that property as a strong historic asset continues to make sense given current entry levels to foreclosed property in Florida especially to anybody currently holding cash which may be resting in a Bank earning less than 1%.
Foreclosed Property Florida are three small little words that should interest all of us. People say that the market dictates the pace of any change, On May 13th the Orlando Sentinel newspaper published an article quoting separate reports that existing home sales were up for the 3rd straight month and foreclosure activity was down by one-fourth from a month earlier, remember where you heard it first..
Florida is special and for as long as the median state income remains at $45,000 per annum and there continues to be little appetite from lenders to provide mortgages for less than $50,000 then there will be an opportunity from those residing elsewhere in the United States on greater income and countries outside of the States to get hold of quality properties that are actually producing cash. Let’s leave the nice words like yields etc. out of this, it comes down to brass tax, something my father in law actually knows quite a bit about.
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