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Santa Maria Real Estate: Tips for Buying Santa Maria Short Sales

1) Be prepared for an “as-is” purchase. Many times there is deferred maintenance on short sale listings. Often owners in financial distress stop performing maintenance on the home either willfully and because they lack the funds. You can ask a short sale seller to make repairs, but often they are unable or unwilling to do so since they are losing their home. You can also approach the short sale lender and ask that they allow the cost of the repairs to be deducted from their “net” but often the answer will be no, even if the repairs are required by your lender in order to originate your new loan.
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Santa Maria Real Estate: Tips for Buying Santa Maria Foreclosures

1) For an “as-is” purchase – Banks don’t like to make repairs, and you will find that the Santa Maria real estate is littered with bank sellers who intend to make no repairs to their properties. This may even include situations where the property has been cited by the City of Santa Maria for violations of the municipal code.
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Snapshot 2010: Nipomo Foreclosures

There are 189 active and pending homes and condos in Nipomo. Of those 189 properties, 16 are foreclosures (8%) and 34 are short sales (17.9%). Looking back six months, there have been 122 sales in Nipomo with an average listing price of $440,781 and an average selling price of $429,203, so sellers are getting about 97.3% of their asking prices in Nipomo indicating that there is some bargaining room for buyers in the Nipomo real estate market.
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2010 Snapshot: Lompoc Foreclosures

Lompoc California foreclosure activity: There are 213 active and pending homes and condos in Lompoc currently. Of those 213 properties, 49 homes and condos are foreclosures and 80 are short sales. So, 60% of Lompoc inventory is either a bank owned property or a distress sale. The median asking price for an actively listed home is $245,000 with 68 days on market; for condos the median is $135,000 with 49 days on market. Looking back six months, there have been 227 sales in Lompoc with an average listing price of $235,353, and an average selling price of $234,060, so sellers are getting about 99.4% of their asking prices in Lompoc indicating that there is not much bargaining room for buyers in this market.
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