February 23, 2011: Servicers are moving toward a proactive approach in pursuing short sales as an alternative to foreclosure, servicers on a Mortgage Bankers Association panel said Wednesday.
A component and specialty servicer, meanwhile, predicted that short sales could increase 50% industrywide this year. Buffalo, N.Y.-based AMS Servicing told HousingWire that the projected increase is due largely to changes in the Obama administration’s Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives, or HAFA, program that opens up eligibility to a larger group of homeowners. AMS has determined through analysis of its 2010 short sale metrics that as many as 91% of previously ineligible borrowers might now be eligible for the HAFA short sale program states Housing Wire.
