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Best Post of 2011: InfoGraphic

December 30, 2011

This week we are posting the best blogs of 2011 by category. We hope you enjoy them as much as you did when we first posted them. – The KCM Crew   Share

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Shadow Inventory by State

December 16, 2011

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Understanding the Impact of Shadow Inventory

November 23, 2011

Standard & Poors released their Third Quarter 2011 Shadow Inventory Update yesterday. We want to cover the basic points of the report today. What is shadow inventory? It is an inventory of houses that will come to market as a distressed properties at a discounted price. Each of the data companies define shadow inventory in slightly [...]

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Selling? Waiting Until the Spring Makes No Sense

September 27, 2011

Late last year, banks were warned that they needed to guarantee that the paperwork necessary to start a foreclosure process on a family was both accurate and complete. Since then, the banks have slowed down the foreclosure process while they re-examined their procedures. They are now confident that all the required documentation is in order. [...]

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Windows of Opportunity Beginning to Close for Sellers

September 19, 2011

We have suggested that sellers who need to sell within the next 18 months had a ‘window of opportunity’ to sell at higher prices. They needed to put their houses up for sale immediately before a flood of distressed properties were introduced to the market. This window is beginning to close. The paperwork challenges faced [...]

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Discounted Competition Is About to Enter the Market

August 26, 2011

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