Portland Short Sales

21 Listings found with the following criteria:

Property type and category like any
CONDO, DETACHD, ATTACHD
Foreclosure status
Short Sale
Order
created_at DESC
Narrow your search
$299,900
1,803 ft²
2 Bed
1.0 Bath
$425,000
1,780 ft²
2 Bed
2.1 Bath
$480,000
1,440 ft²
3 Bed
2.0 Bath
$340,000
806 ft²
2 Bed
1.0 Bath
$705,000
1,734 ft²
2 Bed
2.0 Bath
$499,000
2,003 ft²
3 Bed
2.0 Bath
$385,000
1,044 ft²
2 Bed
1.0 Bath
$375,000
1,610 ft²
4 Bed
2.0 Bath
$580,000
4,637 ft²
3 Bed
3.1 Bath
$415,000
1,224 ft²
3 Bed
1.0 Bath
$269,000
1,335 ft²
2 Bed
2.0 Bath
$1,395,000
6,637 ft²
4 Bed
3.1 Bath
$800,000
3,715 ft²
5 Bed
3.1 Bath
$475,000
2,400 ft²
4 Bed
2.0 Bath
$500,000
2,124 ft²
3 Bed
2.1 Bath

21 Listings found with the following criteria:

Property type and category like any
CONDO, DETACHD, ATTACHD
Foreclosure status
Short Sale
Order
created_at DESC
Narrow your search

Portland Short Sales In 2013?

The mortgage debt relief act was scheduled to end on December 31st 2012, but lawmakers managed to get an extension of this law passed as a part of the "Fiscal Cliff" legislation.    The way that the law works is as follows: When a property owner sells his or her home as a "Short Sale" the bank takes a loss.  That loss could be a taxable event for the homeowner because it results in a 1099 from the bank to the homeowner for the amount of the loss.  The Mortgage Debt Relief Act extends the amount of a time that a homeowner can be exempt from this "Phantom Gain" until the end of 2013,

Short sale inventory in Portland has been drying up.  See the graph below:

Portland Short Sales 2012

As this graph clearly illustrates, the number of short sale listings placed on the market have declined substantially over the period of Jan. 2012 to Dec. 2012.   This decline may in part be to the uncertainty about whether or not congress would approve an extension of the Mortgage Debt Relief Act.

Now that the uncertainty has been removed for 2013, I expect many sellers who are still "underwater" to list and sell their homes.  Inventory in the Portland Metro Area remains low, and short sales are a significant part of overall sales.  In 2012, approximately 831 short sales were recorded in Portland.  There were about 1139 bank owned (REO) sales and there were about 6919 traditional sales.  In other words, about 9% of the sales recorded in Portland last year were short sales... about 13% were bank owned sales, and about 78% were traditional sales.