Functional obsolescence is a term when used in real estate to indicate a feature of a home that is not longer useful or desirable today.
Homes with 3 bedrooms and only one bath were popular in the 50s and 60s, but now are functionally obsolete; buyers want two bathrooms. Homes with detached, 1 or 1.5 [...]

In real estate, 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.

Carl Keating and in studio guest Sherry Denton of Keller Williams Realty discuss the possibility of a rumored 600,000 phantom foreclosure property more than doubling the current US REO levels. We then move our focus to the mid-west and take a look at the “Green” initiatives underway as part of the rust-belt’s urban recovery plans.

 

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