While the purchases are trimming the inventory of unsold properties, most of those bought by speculators will likely return to the market when prices rise again, hampering any recovery, said Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz and Yale University Professor Robert Shiller in interviews.
“We’re creating a shadow inventory of homes that will be right back on the market as soon as the economy and the housing market begin to improve,” said Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor of economics. “We could see a double-dip in the housing recession if that happens.”
“You don’t have it in strong hands, you have flippers,” said Shiller, who helped create the S&P/Case Shiller real estate price indexes. “These speculators are preventing the market from crashing now, and when they get out it could fall again.”
Dario Moscoso of San Diego tracks notices of default and negotiates directly with banks if a home doesn’t sell at auction. He bought a three-bedroom foreclosed house in San Diego three weeks ago for $490,000, half of what it would have fetched a year ago. He’s renting it for $2,500 a month and plans to sell when prices rebound.
“We hope to put it back on the market in about a year,” Moscoso, 52, said in an interview. “We’ll gauge the market and see how it goes.”
This is an interesting concept that I have not considered. In the IE, a large percentage of recent sales are investors, especially in the lower priced areas. Investor purchases will not help the economy as much as regular owner/buyers will. Investors will not spend money on furnishings, nor will they spend money on upgrades or pools. And what happens to the inventory levels when prices finally do start to rise and those investors want to cash in and take their profits? If the inventory spikes it could very well cause another dip in prices. Why do they bring up these scenarios. It makes my head hurt....... or maybe that's the scotch.
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At this rate, I look forward too and welcome 1990 levels.
I am starting to see FOR RENT signs all over Corona these days - geez - I can't go to work without passing like 5 or 6 of them...
Oh for sure we will have an influx of homes again when prices go up and investors want to sell and that's not a bad thing - but true investors hold onto rentals for while - you have to many "wanna be investors" out there if you ask me. Damn world is going to "pot".
we havent seen nothing yet...the REAL problems begin after the investors have rented out these houses....over half of homes in the the inland empire will be tenant occupied. THATS when the fun begins...cars on the lawns, yards gone because they dont want to water them, multiple families moving in to help with the rent..I have struggled for several years as whether i should move back to la cresta in murrieta where I sold my home 5 years ago and moved to texas. Ive recently made the decision not to return...even though I can buy a house for half of what i sold mine for. Its just not worth it. the inland empire is not what it used to be and ubfortunately it never will be again..so sad.
Nothing is the same anymore nor will it be - nor should it. We are a civilization that destroys it's own communities by greed and self preservation. We want to compete with the other civilizations - tribes or in the U.S. as they are commonly called - The Jones'. We want more and more - this credit and housing crisis is not about bad loans - it's about self indulgence and about greed. I hope everything changes to where my kids have gotten something out of their civilization that you can not live beyond your means - that less is more and that only God can control the stock market, the housing boom or crash and any credit you may think you have or need.
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