Do you remember last year being the year of foreclosures? Well, this year looks like it is about to become the year of short sales.
In Phoenix alone, the amount of finished short sales, in which lenders sold homes for a lower mortgage value, went up by 60% at the end of 2009. Last month, bank-owned home sales went down by 25% compared to a year before, as traditional sales went up by 9% and short sales went up by 16%.
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