Number of Short Sales On The Rise
Throughout the county short sales - a sale of a home for less than is owed on its mortgage – are up. 
The rise is shorts sales may help explain the increase in home transactions at a time when they are usually falling. Usually home sales decrease after August but this year the number of homes sold increased from August to September. Short sales often take longer to close so it may be sales from the summer are being carried over into September and October.
Short sales increased from 293 in January to 477 in September – a 63% increase in 9 months. Short sales are increasing while the number of distressed sales have been declining in the past year.







