Foreclosure Realtor

Do You Live Near a Foreclosure? What to Expect Now

Over the last year foreclosures have been much more prevalent. New foreclosures are listed every day in Minnesota. You are wondering about their property values and the effect they have sitting vacant next to your house. Its no secret property value has decreased in the last year. Properties/Homes owned by banks typically have lost the most value. If the bank financed or bought a house on Red Sand Lake for $200,000 and now have foreclosed on it, they aren’t good position. Even if that house was being lived in (rented) and in pristine condition. It’s just not worth what it was before.

When the property becomes a foreclosure they are worth less money. No one’s going to pay market value for them. The bank owned homes sell for less than homes sold by the traditional seller. Buyers won’t buy them until the prices hit bottom.

All Brainerd Lakes real estate, in Crow Wing and Cass county are affected by the foreclosure market. Sometimes there are homes, one could be in a new development in Baxter and the other, identical in every way except it is a foreclosure. Sometimes what happens is the bank will lower the price for a quicker sale and does make an impact. A traditional home owner will have a harder time selling. The bank has to lower the cost of the house because buyers won’t pay as much for a foreclosure.

A person looks for a home in Brainerd Lakes Area, they shop around, compare prices, it’s all part of the process. One of the first thing you will notice during the search is the local crow wing county and cass county foreclosures. When people look for homes they go shopping ,comparing prices, select a real estate agent, its part of that process. If your anything like me once you see that home foreclosure listed on a website, like lakehome for the cheap price. It’s hard to not expect that value on the other homes as well.

When an appraiser or a Realtor looks at the market value of a house in, say in East Gull Lake, they look for three comparable homes that are nearby in East Gull Lake and have sold in the last year. Usually, they don’t use any bank owned Houses or houses that were owned by the bank in the comparison. Simply because that will not give them an accurate market value. Private/Personal owned homes sell more than bank owned homes.

If you live at 555 Excelsior Dr in Baxter and 556 Excelsior Dr Baxter, MN and you have a foreclosure on each side of you, it doesn’t necessarily mean your property value will drop. In the some Brainerd and Baxter areas hardest hit by the foreclosures the prices seem to have hit bottom and average sale prices are now higher than average list prices.

Foreclosed homes sitting empty have a slight impact on the value of the homes nearby, it a normal market the value of your home is a lot more sensitive to foreclosures, with the REO prevalence today almost everyone is living near a foreclosure. Buyers are interested in buying the bank owned homes but no one wants one as a neighbor.

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