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Their Back .. Home Buyers are back and ready to BUY ... with confidence

Home Buyers are back

The housing numbers are all heading in the right direction. Home prices up, foreclosures down and, perhaps the most important, consumer confidence in housing swelling. Even as sales of new and existing homes bounce up and down month to month, the desire to buy is growing. The percentage of Americans who say owning a home is an essential part of the American dream has hit a three-year high at 79 percent. Great News if your thinking of Selling.

Lenders are reporting a higher number of first time home buyer application and many eager buyers are finding inventory levels so low that multipule offers are become common palce. If your have been sitting on the fence about selling your home .. Sit no longer .. now is the time to jump before freclosure return and they will.

While the number of distressed homes is falling, the remnants of the housing crash are still weighing on the recovery. There are still 5.1 million properties where the owner is either delinquent on the mortgage or the home is already in the foreclosure process, according to a new report from Lender Processing Services. As banks ramp up the foreclosure process, following delays due to processing fraud over the past few years, more distressed properties will come to the market

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