Wednesday, December 21, 2011

For Every Two Homes for Sale, There's One in the Shadows

The number of distressed properties not currently listed for sale on multiple listing services (MLSs) stood at 1.6 million as of October 2011, according to CoreLogic.

This shadow inventory is approximately half of the industry’s visible inventory of homes available for sale, CoreLogic says. Thus, for every two homes available for sale, there is one home in the “shadows.”
CoreLogic’s latest shadow inventory assessment represents a supply of five months and is down from October 2010, when shadow inventory stood at 1.9 million units, or 7-months’ supply.
CoreLogic estimates the current stock of properties in the shadow inventory, also known as pending supply, by calculating the number of distressed properties not currently listed on MLSs that are seriously delinquent (90 days or more), in foreclosure, and real estate owned (REO) by lenders. (Carrie Bay - dsnews.com)


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