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How to Buy HUD Foreclosures in Santa Maria & Orcutt

First you should find a HUD selling agent, as only HUD selling agents can show and write offers on HUD properties. Mint Properties is a HUD selling agent and can assist you with this process. Sometimes HUD properties are advertised on the local MLS, but I’ve found that often they are not. Typically, HUD homes are listed on Friday and you must check the HUD website to find their newly listed foreclosures.
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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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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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2010 Snapshot – Orcutt Foreclosure Market Update

There are 295 active and pending homes and condos in the Orcutt zip code of 93455. Of those 295 properties, 41 homes are foreclosures (13.8%) and 113 are short sales (38.3%). So currently, over 50% of the Orcutt market is either a bank owned property or a short sale. Average asking price overall was $337,392, asking prices for foreclosures was significantly lower at $256,678, and for short sales it was $269,678.
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Snapshot – 2010 Grover Beach Foreclosure Market

Grover Beach, California foreclosure activity: There are 88 active and pending homes and condos in the city of Grover Beach. Of those 88 properties, 9 homes are foreclosures (10.2%) and 27 are short sales (30.6%). Looking back six months, there have been 72 sales in Grover Beach with an average listing price of $346,140 and an average selling price of $338,940.
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2010 Snapshot – Pismo Beach Foreclosure Market

Pismo Beach, California foreclosure activity: There are 139 active and pending homes and condos in Pismo Beach currently. Of those 139 properties, 9 homes are foreclosures and 12 are short sales. Looking back six months, there have been 35 sales in Pismo Beach with an average listing price of $671,239, and an avergae selling price of $616,669, so sellers are getting about 91.8% of their asking prices in Pismo Beach
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2009 Orcutt CA Real Estate & Foreclosure Market Update

There were a total of 509 homes and condos sold in 2009 in the Orcutt area. Included in these figures are homes in the 93455 zip code which includes some homes and condos in Santa Maria that are south of Betteravia. 439 of the sales were single family homes and 70 were condos/PUDs. The average list price was $339,181, and the average sales price was $332,989 at $182 per square foot with73 days on market. For condos and PUDs, the average list price was $185,185, and average sales price was $179,203 at $132 per square foot with 89 days on the market.
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2009 Lompoc CA and Vandenberg Village CA Real Estate & Foreclosure Market Update

There were 360 single family homes sold in the Lompoc and Vandenberg Village in 2009. This excludes manufactured home sales. This figure is down approximately 10% from the 401 homes/condos that were reported sold in 2008. Of the 360 homes/condos sold in 2009, 305 were single gamily detached homes, and 55 were attached/condo dwellings. 217 of the sales were foreclosures (REOs) and 50 were short sales.
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