Posts Tagged ‘short sale process’


The New HAFA Short Sale Program—-A Giant Step Backward for Real Estate Commissions?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

By now, most professionals in the real estate industry are aware that the U.S. Treasury Department issued a plan called the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives program (HAFA) on November 30, 2009.  The HAFA program is intended to speed up and regulate the short sale process for borrowers whose loans are subject to the government’s loan modification [...]

The 3 Steps to Short Sale Success

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

With the cooling of the real estate market, the meltdown of sub-prime and option arm loans, rising unemployment and negative equity in properties, the number of homeowners that find themselves in foreclosure has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. And it is predicted that several million more homeowners will fall into foreclosure in the next two years.
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