Monday, July 6, 2009

Repo Business Soars

Repo business soars as Sacramento area home sales slump
By Jim Wasserman jwasserman@sacbee.com

"At the beginning, Alejandro Maybuena lost the Sacramento house he bought in April 2005 for $350,000. At the end, in early 2009, Kim Gish bought it for $109,000.

Stories like this have happened more than 40,000 times in the Sacramento area. Still, the tale in particular of one house in California's capital region shows the sweeping change in a real estate industry that once involved mainly a mom-and-pop seller, a buyer and two real estate agents." SacBee