High Default Rate Scares Lenders
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Financial institutions are very much cautious of the current economic conditions, though they are getting a lot of business from people who are opting to get new mortgages on new homes or refinancing their existing mortgage due to the very high default rate. A figure of around 62% is alarming indeed for it shows that people are still not getting enough cash to promptly settle their monthly payments. This can lead to another housing market crisis with more properties that could have been saved, again ending up on the chopping block, for sale or lease, hopefully fr good. The pain of people will be lasting a bit longer, a few years to be exact for recovery and full market turn around is predicted to come this 2012 (2 years or so in the future!).
Properties sell and they sell really good, especially when prices have almost been halved or a mere fraction of the first time they were listed for sale. This is a common case in today’s fragile