Inventory of Ghost Listings are Hiding Out

January 24th, 2009 category: East End LI Foreclosures, Real Estate News

There seems to be a inventory of “Ghost Listings” or “Shadow Listings” that are hiding in dark alley ways and back streets.

CNNMoney’s post today titled, Flood of Foreclosures: It’s worse than you think by CNNMoney.com staff writer Les Christie. Some excerpts follow.

Banks are moving slowly to list repossessed homes for sale, which could mean that housing inventory is even more bloated than current statistics indicate.

The problem: Many foreclosed homes and other distressed properties that are now owned by banks have yet to be listed for sale. The volume of this so-called ‘ghost inventory’ could be substantial enough to depress already steeply falling prices when it does go on the market.

Lenders still insist they try to act as swiftly as possible. According to Tom Kelly, a spokesman for Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) Mortgage, their goal is to cut their losses on these homes, which are expensive to maintain, as fast as possible.

But banks might hold back listings in areas where they already have lots of homes for sale in order to avoid flooding the market, according to Michael Youngblood, a financial analyst and founder of Five Bridges Capital, an asset management company.

You can read the whole article here.

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