Exito de CASSA en Lauderhill

Las ventas del proyecto CASSA han resultado un éxito con la primera etapa a punto de agotarse y la segunda a punto de lanzarse.
El proyecto de townhouses de 2 y 3 dormitorios cuenta con lo último en diseño y equipamiento.
El plazo de obra es de unos 7 meses y luego las unidades se entregan listas para renta.
Ideal para inversores.
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El departamento más caro de Miami

Un único penthouse de dos pisos con diseño de Casa Fendi. Más de 1350 metros cuadrados con 6 dormitorios, 8 baños y un toilette.

Home theater interior y exterior, comedor al aire libre, family room, cava, sala de billar, gran salón con piscina cubierta.

Todo vidriado, grandes escaleras, 2 chimeneas.

Este es realmente el penthouse más lindo del mundo.

Más de 450 metros de terraza.

Real estate investors plan to buy more

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Sept. 21, 2012 – Despite rising prices and shrinking foreclosure inventories, 65 percent of active real estate investors plan to buy as many homes over the next 12 months as they bought in the previous 12 months, according to a survey conducted by ORC International for BiggerPockets.com and Memphis Invest.

Founded in 1938, ORC International has conducted the CNN|ORC International poll since 2007.

Future activity

The survey found that 39 percent of active investors intend to increase their purchases over the next twelve months, while 26 percent plan to buy as many in the upcoming year to come as they did in the past year. Added together, the two groups equal about 4.5 million investors. Only 30 percent of survey respondents planned to buy fewer properties.

Last year, investors purchased 1.23 million homes, a 64.5 percent increase over 749,000 in 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

Who are the investors?

Some 3 percent of American adults – 7 million people – consider themselves to be real estate investors. An additional 9 percent of all Americans own investment property today but have no current plans to buy more. Thus, one out of eight – 28.1 million Americans – either consider themselves to be residential real estate investors or own residential investment properties today, according the survey.

“Hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and short sales are coming to market and rents are continuing to improve in most markets, creating a positive environment for the nation’s 28.1 million residential real estate investors,” says Joshua Dorkin, founder and CEO of BiggerPockets.com. “We’re talking about a group of Americans that is about the same in number as the number of Americans who own Roth IRAs (28.5 million) or the total number of money market fund shareholders (29 million). They have significant buying power.”

Housing repair

At a median expenditure of $7,500 per property, investors are spending a total of $9.2 billion per year to repair the damage caused by foreclosures and rehabilitate the nation’s housing stock – about four times more than the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

“This survey puts some hard numbers behind the contribution that investors are making towards … driving the economy,” says Chris Clothier, a partner with Memphis Invest. “Those investors are driving their local economies by spending billions in repair costs with local electricians, plumbers, flooring companies and laborers.”

Promoting real estate investment

The survey found that lower interest rates and removing financing access limits would provide incentives to investors. Survey respondents said lower interest rates would make active investors more willing to invest in additional properties (70 percent). A distant second was additional tax incentives for capital spent to purchase, rehab or renovate investment properties (54 percent).

Third place went to elimination of limits imposed by lenders on the amount they will lend an investor (46 percent) and fourth to easing of rules on section 1031 Exchanges (44 percent).

Only 30 percent said that the easing of securities laws limiting the pooling of capital by investors for purchases would encourage them to buy more.

© 2012 Florida Realtors®

The Distressed Property Market and Shadow Inventory Updated June 2012

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The Distressed Property Market and Shadow Inventory Updated June 2012

Fannie sells interest in 699 Florida properties

San Diego-based Pacifica Companies has purchased a managing interest in 699 Fannie Mae-owned residential properties throughout Florida, near or at market value, according to an announcement made today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The deal closed Sept. 6 when Fannie Mae sold the equity cashflows of a newly created LLC, which held the 699 single-family units, to Pacifica and made it the managing member. Pacifica paid more than $12 million for the managing member interest, representing a rough transaction valuation of $78 million for Fannie Mae and a third party valuation of $81.5 million.

However, Fannie Mae will retain an interest in the LLC’s equity cashflows. Its stake entitles it to receive 90 percent of distributions until approximately $50 million is received, at which point Fannie Mae will split distributions with Pacifica evenly at 50 percent. Pacifica will also receive 20 percent of gross rental income collected from the properties as a management fee. – Christopher Cameron

Reforms to put more short sales in play

If you’re underwater and facing financial distress, what might Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s new short sale reform policies mean for you? Potentially a lot — even if you are current on your mortgage payments and never imagined that a short sale and principal reduction could be in the cards.

Here’s what’s involved. Starting Nov. 1, owners whose loans have been purchased or guaranteed by Fannie or Freddie may qualify for a short sale if they fit key hardship criteria including: unemployment; divorce; long-term disability; a change of employment that is more than 50 miles from the current home; a business failure; death of the primary or secondary wage earner; or a natural or man-made disaster.

Short sales allow borrowers and lenders to avoid the crushing costs of foreclosure by bringing in a new purchaser for the house at what is normally a price well below the amount owed to the lender. In a successful sale, the distressed owner receives a write-down of the portion of the principal not covered by the new buyer’s price.

In what could be a far-reaching change, Fannie and Freddie will allow borrowers who are current on their mortgage payments — not seriously delinquent as traditionally required — to qualify for short sales, provided they fit the “hardship” criteria. Borrowers who are considered “most in need,” that is, they are far behind on payments, have depressed credit scores and are facing financial stress, will be eligible for streamlined processing of short sales, involving reduced documentation and much speedier resolutions than usual.

Under rules that took effect in June, loan servicers already are required to operate on fast timelines for short sale requests. They are supposed to respond to borrower requests for short sales within 30 days of receipt of an offer by a purchaser, and must give applicants a final decision within 60 days of receipt of a completed short sale package.

In the past, short sales often have been drawn out and contentious, sometimes taking nine months or more to close. They have also had a high rate of failure and cancellations, when buyers get frustrated and bail out of the transaction after waiting for banks and loan servicers to make decisions and process paperwork. Banks that hold second mortgages or credit lines secured by the house have been another choke point. As lien holders, they can block the entire transaction if they feel they are not being properly compensated along with the first mortgage holder, and have frequently blown up deals with their demands. Under the new Fannie-Freddie rules, second lien holders will be entitled to a maximum of $6,000 out of the proceeds of the sale.

The broadening of short sales to those who are current on their mortgage payments but encountering serious hardships could help huge numbers of underwater homeowners. Though the Federal Housing Finance Agency has no estimates of how many borrowers might be assisted by the change, its acting director, Edward DeMarco, has said that 4.6 million loans in Fannie’s and Freddie’s combined portfolios are underwater, and that approximately four-fifths of these are current on payments.

To Alexis Eldorrado, managing broker of Eldorrado Chicago Real Estate, a firm that specializes in short sales, opening up the market to people who have continued to make on-time payments despite having negative equity “is a very big deal.” Elizabeth Weintraub, a short sale expert and author based in Sacramento, Calif., said she “was blown away” by the revised policies. She added that the new rules won’t solve all the problems, however. For example, banks owed large sums on second mortgages may not be satisfied with the $6,000 maximum payoff to release their liens, even though they know that in a foreclosure their second liens likely would be worthless, as the first lien holder must be paid first.

Among other key changes in Fannie and Freddie short sales:

• Members of the armed forces who receive permanent change-of-status orders and are underwater will be automatically eligible for short sales, even if they are current on their loan payments.

• In states where Fannie and Freddie have the legal right to pursue “deficiencies” when short sale proceeds do not pay off the existing debt, they will waive that right and instead ask borrowers who have sufficient assets or income to make “cash contributions” or execute promissory notes to cover part of the shortfall.

To find out whether your loan is owned by Fannie or Freddie, visit either FannieMae.com/loanlookup or FreddieMac.com/corporate.

Kenneth R. Harney is a syndicated real estate columnist