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Phoenix Area Bank Owned Homes

Jonathan Dalton, Phoenix Real Estate Agent While I wait for the Arizona Regional MLS to make available the ability to provide filtered searches for bank owned and REO properties in the Phoenix real estate market, I decided to take matters into my own hands.

Up at the top and to the left you’ll notice a new page - Bank Owned Homes. Over the next few hours I’ll be creating maps that shows all of the lender owned homes in different communities, as provided by ARMLS. All you’ll need to do is click on a marker for details on any given property.

Glendale is the first city available mostly because I wanted to see if there were any REOs in my own neighborhood. Amazingly enough, there are exactly zero.

I’ll be the first to admit the maps are a little clunky, but until an IDX solution comes available this is the best I’ve got. And it’s better than most, if I do say so myself.

Of course, if you’re looking for bank owned homes in a given area and want to skip the maps, call or e-mail me and I’ll get you access to a personalized web site of listings that match your criteria.

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Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update: February 5, 2008

Jonathan Dalton, Phoenix Real Estate Agent Inventory of single-family detached homes in Maricopa County essentially was flat (actually down 100 homes) from last week’s update while sales for the preceding 30 days inched closer to the 2,000 mark.

The absorption rate for the Phoenix real estate market - the number of months it would take to sell all of the current inventory at the current sales pace - dropped to 19.9 months.

I’ve talked before about the increased interest in bank-owned homes and the numbers bear that out. There currently are 3,056 lender-owned homes in the Arizona Regional MLS to go with 335 reported sales over the past 30 days, creating an absorption rate among REO properties of 9.1 months.

What about short sales? Glad you asked. There are 3,380 homes denoted as “lender/corp approval required.” Most of these are short sales, some are corporate relocations (and/or corporate REO properties.) Over the past 30 days, 169 of these homes sold. That would mean there’s a 22-month supply, but many of these homes will fall out of this category and become foreclosures as time moves forward without a sale.

Add the two categories together and 16% of the Phoenix real estate inventory consists of short sales or REO properties.

Back to the regular absorption rate. As always, click on any of the markers below to see the details for a given city or town. And also as always, all data is provided by the Arizona Regional MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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