Relevant:
- Shadow Inventory Drops below 2 Million Homes
- Modified mortgages re-enter shadow inventory -- By next month the housing crisis will have cost 5,000,000 Americans their homes via foreclosures. Distressed inventory still above 5,000,000.
- Home Prices Drop in 36 States; Beazer Warns on Orders; 8 Million Foreclosure-Bound Homes to Hit the Market; Prices to Stagnate for a Decade
- Lords of the shadow inventory -- over 3 million homes locked away in shadow inventory near peak levels. Prices must fall to prevent massive drawn out drag to economy.
- Long View of Housing Measures Says Sell
2012-08-02 — bloomberg.com
The shrinking vacancy rate indicates that the so-called shadow inventory, which includes homes facing foreclosure or repossessed by banks that aren't listed for sale, is smaller than the biggest estimates and less of a threat to a real estate recovery, Kolko said. The shadow inventory was 5.95 million homes last month, down from a high of 8.79 million in early 2010, Morgan Stanley said in a July 26 report.
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