Posted on 02 July 2010 by Christopher Hanson
Deutsche Bank has issued a report ranking U.S. mortgage servicers on the speed of completing short sales transactions.
For prime lenders, the winner is GMAC, with an average transaction time of six months. CitiMortgage was in second place at 7.5 months.
Countrywide, now owned by BofA, sucks wind in the prime category, coming in last with an average transaction time of 13 months.
The report ranked mortgage servicers in four categories: Prime, Subprime, Option-ARM and Alt-A. Of all the servicers in every category, Equicredit had the lowest possible score, taking an average of 29 months to complete a short sale.
Read the article at REOInsider.
Posted on 01 July 2010 by Christopher Hanson
For the first time in three months, U.S. commercial real estate property values rose in April, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
The Moody’s/REAL Commercial Property Price Index rose 1.7% from March; however, prices declined 16% from April of 2009 and are down 41% from the Index’s October 2007 high.
From a Bloomberg report:
Economic growth in the second half of 2009 and first quarter of this year have helped lift prices for offices, warehouses and stores from an October low. Property sales jumped 50 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to $15.4 billion, Real Capital Analytics Inc., a commercial real estate research company in New York, said April 22.
“What we have is a bottom in the market,” Christopher Cornell, an economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview. “We have seen essentially a flat trend in commercial property prices in the last several months.”
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