Foreclosure Homes for Sale in Colorado
Colorado has not been as badly affected by the last twelve months of foreclosure crisis as some states across the nation but, nevertheless there has been an unprecedented number of foreclosures being listed across all counties.
Results published for the third quarter actually show a slight decrease across the State with a 3 percent drop in sales and a 14 percent drop in filings, so at least perhaps there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Many experts are reporting that this may be a temporary glitch and that the slow down is only temporary as a result of the recently announced federal government bail out package and new legislation introduced over the past few months.
The $24 million bail out is directed towards assisting banks with moving on foreclosed properties that have been stagnant on the market place for months and even years, and also at providing advice for struggling householders about to enter the foreclosure process.
New legislation has been introduced to prevent lenders issuing a Notice to Default out of the Blue; the onus is now on the lender and not the borrower to get in touch 45 and then 30 days before the notice is issued. This is encouraging defaulting borrowers from ignoring the problem and they are now starting to get in touch rather than live in denial. The foreclosure hotline has also prevented an estimate 4,000 foreclosures across the State it is estimated.
The human cost of the crisis is still being felt despite the numbers being published in the press. The realty if that there are more neighbourhoods that now share their streets with boarded up, desolate and abandoned homes. This in turn brings down the value of the houses elsewhere in the neighbourhood. People are increasingly unable to sell their homes, for many reasons: they may live next door to a foreclosed home which has an overgrown lawn and broken windows; they may be ‘underwater’ or in negative equity; mortgage brokers are asking for significantly larger deposits than ever before which may be unaffordable, or worst of all, they may be about to become unemployed as the redundancy rate across the State is still rising.
So the experts may quote statistics, but the hard realty is that real people are still living with the fall out of the sub-prime mortgage debacle and the global economic recession. There may be light at the end of the tunnel for the publishers of the figures, but it doesn’t seem that way to homeowners.
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