What is a Short Sale?
For owners who can no longer afford to keep mortgage payments current, there are alternatives to bankruptcy or foreclosure proceedings. One of those options is called a "short sale. "When lenders agree to do a short sale in real estate, it means the lender is accepting less than the total amount due. Not all lenders will accept short sales or discounted payoffs, especially if it would make more financial sense to foreclose.
Short Sales: The Positives
While homeowner’s are forbidden from receiving any proceeds from the sale of their home, there are other benefits to “short sales”.
1. A “short sale” if the homeowner cannot afford to remain in premises, the lender will repossess the property through foreclosure proceedings. A “short sale” can save the homeowner many months of stress, aggravation, embarrassment and uncertainty.
2. A foreclosure can be devastating upon the credit of a defaulting homeowner. With “short sales”, the homeowner’s credit may be restored in as little as eighteen months.
Short Sales: What you can expect
Although all lenders have varying requirements and may demand that a borrower submit a wide array of documentation, the following steps will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect:
Hardship Letter: This statement of facts describes how you got into this financial bind and makes a plea to the lender to accept less than full payment. Lenders are not inhumane and can understand if you lost your job, were hospitalized, etc.
Proof of Income and Assets: Lenders will want to know if you have savings accounts, money market accounts, stocks or bonds, negotiable instruments, cash or other real estate or anything of tangible value.
Copies of Bank Statements: If your bank statements reflect unaccountable deposits, large cash withdrawals or an unusual number of checks, it's probably a good idea to explain each of those line items to the lender. In addition, the lender might want you to account for each and every deposit so it can determine whether deposits will continue.
Comparative Market Analysis: Sometimes markets decline and property values fall. If this is part of the reason that you cannot sell your home for enough to pay off the lender, this fact should be substantiated for the lender through a comparative market analysis (CMA). Your real estate agent can prepare a CMA for you, which will show prices of similar homes.
Purchase Agreement & Listing Agreement: When you reach an agreement to sell with a prospective purchaser, the lender will want a copy of the offer, along with a copy of your listing
How we can help
At the Venta de Casas en Chicago, we have experience in negotiating “short sales” with numerous lending institutions. If you are considering a “short sale”, please Contact Us without delay as earlier communications with your lender increase the likelihood of a successful negotiation.
More General info About Short Sales
A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the proceeds from the sale fall short of the balance owed on a loan secured by the property sold.
In a short sale, the bank or mortgage lender agrees to discount a loan balance due to an economic or financial hardship on the part of the mortgagor. This negotiation is all done through communication with a bank's loss mitigation or workout department. The home owner/debtor sells the mortgaged property for less than the outstanding balance of the loan, and turns over the proceeds of the sale to the lender, sometimes (but not always) in full satisfaction of the debt. In such instances, the lender would have the right to approve or disapprove of a proposed sale. Extenuating circumstances influence whether or not banks will discount a loan balance. These circumstances are usually related to the current real estate market and the borrower's financial situation.
A short sale typically is executed to prevent a home foreclosure, but the decision to proceed with a short sale is predicated on the most economic way for the bank to recover the amount owed on the property. Often a bank will allow a short sale if they believe that it will result in a smaller financial loss than foreclosing as there are carrying costs that are associated with a foreclosure. A bank will typically determine the amount of equity (or lack of), by determining the probable selling price from a Broker Price Opinion BPO (also known as a Broker Opinion of Value (BOV)) or through a valuation of an appraisal. For the home owner, advantages include avoidance of a foreclosure on their credit history and partial control of the monetary deficiency. A short sale is typically faster and less expensive than a foreclosure. In short, a short sale is nothing more than negotiating with lien holders a payoff for less than what they are owed, or rather a sale of a debt, generally on a piece of real estate, short of the full debt amount. It does not extinguish the remaining balance unless settlement is clearly indicated on the acceptance of offer.
Short sales are common in standard business transactions in recognition that creditors are not doing debtors a favor but, rather, engaging in a business transaction when extending credit. When it makes no business sense or is economically not feasible to retain an asset, businesses default on their loans (called bonds). It is not uncommon for business bonds to trade on the after-market for a small fraction of their face value in realization of the likelihood of these future defaults.
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Negotiations
Lenders have a department (typically called "loss mitigation") that processes potential short sale transactions. Today, lenders may accept short sale offers or requests for short sales even if a Notice of Default has not been issued or recorded with the locality where the property is located. Given the unprecedented and overwhelming number of losses that mortgage lenders have suffered from the 2009 foreclosure crisis, they are now more willing to accept short sales than ever before. This is great news for borrowers who are "under-water" or in other words those who owe more on their mortgage than their property is worth and are having trouble selling to avoid foreclosure because of this.
Lenders have a varying tolerance for short sales and mitigated losses. The majority of lenders have a pre-determined criteria for such transactions. Other distressed lenders may allow any reasonable offer subject to a loss mitigator's approval. Multiple levels of approvals and conditions are very common with short sales. Junior liens - such as second mortgages, HELOC lenders, and HOA (special assessment liens) - may need to approve the short sale. Frequent objectors to short sales include tax lien holders (income, estate or corporate franchise tax - as opposed to real property taxes, which have priority even when unrecorded) and mechanic's lien holders. It is possible for junior lien holders to prevent the short sale. If the lender required mortgage insurance on the loan, the insurer will likely also be party to negotiations as they may be asked to pay out a claim to offset the lender's loss in the short sale. The wide array of parties, parameters and processes involved in a short sale makes it a relatively complex and highly specialized type of real estate transaction which is why unfortunately short sale deals have a high failure rate and often do not close on time to save homeowners from foreclosure when they are not handled by a knowledgeable and experienced professional. The best sources of knowledge and expertise in short sales are short sale negotiators, loss mitigation specialists, and real estate lawyers who specialize in short sale.
One thing a buyer should know about a short sale is there is no necessary commitment by the bank to sell the house. When the bank completes a short sale they have to write off the difference between their loan amount and the lesser proceeds from the escrow, something they wish to avoid. You may go through all the paperwork to make an offer on the house, pay for inspections, and put down a deposit to start the sale process. After you have made your offer, the bank may try to convince the seller to refinance their loan and stay in the house, which avoids the bank having to take the write off. Any short sale contract includes a contingency where the bank must approve the sale. If the bank persuades the seller to refinance the house, the bank doesn't approve the short sale and the buyer gets their deposit back. In this situation the bank has tied up several months of the buyers time and now the buyer must start the buying process over again. So if you have a fixed time period to get in a specific city or neighborhood you may be better off with a foreclosure (the bank formally took possession of the property) or a situation where the seller has equity. So in a short sale situation look for clues like has the seller moved out (revealed they have no intention of staying in the property) and/or grill the selling realtor about how much the selling bank has agreed to sell the house at (the price you want to offer).
2010 Chicago Short sale news
SHORT sales — in which mortgage lenders agree to accept less than what is owed, allowing borrowers to escape foreclosure — were expected to grow easier this year after the Treasury Department proposed industry guidelines to navigate these complex transactions.
But that has not yet happened, industry experts say, largely because lenders and investors who hold the liens on second mortgages and home equity credit lines often fight for a larger piece of the short sale proceeds.
In late October, the Treasury Department officially adopted the guidelines, first proposed in April, which include suggestions for how these second-lien holders might be paid in such situations. Lenders and short sale specialists say the new measures could help when they go into effect in April 2010, simply because they offer some structure to a process that has often been chaotic.
Until then, lenders and foreclosure counselors say, homeowners can continue to expect a painfully slow process that sometimes fails, and can ultimately lead them back to foreclosure.
“It’s been tough sledding,” said David Sunlin, Bank of America’s real estate management executive. “We’ve been wanting to improve the short sale process, but our focus this year has been on retention efforts,” he said, referring to loan modifications and other foreclosure-avoidance initiatives.
Mr. Sunlin says that more borrowers are seeking short sales this year than in years past, thereby further straining the bank’s ability to handle them in a timely manner. He declined to provide specific numbers.
Real estate lawyers and mortgage industry executives say it can take as long as nine months to complete a short sale.
Lenders say they prefer loan modifications but will accept short sales because they lose less money on such transactions than they do in foreclosures, which often require them to carry the house for months before selling it.
Short sales still show up on a borrower’s credit history, but lenders are generally willing to offer them a new mortgage two years later, according to Mr. Sunlin. After foreclosures, borrowers typically must wait at least five years before a bank is willing to grant them mortgages, he said.
The Treasury guidelines focus on a range of elements in the short sale process. They suggest, for instance, that lenders offer second-lien holders up to $3,000 of the short sale proceeds, with Treasury reimbursing lenders up to $1,000 for doing so.
Under the guidelines, homeowners who are considering a short sale are encouraged to speak with their lenders early in the process about an acceptable sales price for the house, rather than simply contacting a lender when a buyer has made an offer.
And owners who complete a short sale will receive $1,500 from the federal government for relocation costs.
Travis Hamel Olsen, the chief operating officer for the Loan Resolution Corporation in Scottsdale, Ariz., which represents servicers and investors in short sale negotiations, said the Treasury Department’s incentives would do little to encourage second-lien holders to agree to a short sale. Many delinquent borrowers have second liens, mortgage industry executives say.
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