Mortgage financing for home buyers is hard to come by ever since Wall Street no longer has an appetite for mortgage securities, but it is even harder for those wishing to purchase condominiums, particularly in Central Florida.
While home and condo prices have dropped nationwide, the fall in values in the Orlando market have been most significant. According to Florida Realtors, between 2006 and September earlier this year, the median condo price has dropped 63 percent from $166,100 to $60,500, orlandosentinel.com reports. Meanwhile home prices in Orlando have declined by 52 percent, from $262,900 to $125,000, over the same period.
The challenge facing condo buyers in Orlando is several-fold. In addition to difficult financial circumstances facing homeowners’ associations, one major reason is the failure of most condominiums to once more gain FHA mortgage-approval, because of changes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s guidelines, the newspaper reports.
And although Fannie Mae launched a special program to assist Florida by allowing for exceptions when condos didn’t meet all of their requirements, only 10 Orlando-area condo complexes have, to date, been granted federal approval under this program, according to the newspaper.
While empty foreclosed homes rot lowering the values of neighboring homes, Obama and Geithner sit on billions of TARP money meant for loan modifications. Who is Obama trying to fool? He is a vaguely-moderate republican not a democrat! Stop voting fore these weasel fake-democrats!