Foreclosures for sale: Big supply, low prices - Yahoo! Finance: "There's a three-year inventory of homes in foreclosure for sale, and that's devastating home prices.
Las Vegas has so many foreclosures that 53% of all the homes sold in Nevada are in some stage of foreclosure, according to a report from RealtyTrac, the online marketer of foreclosed properties.
Foreclosures represent 45% of sales in California and Arizona, and 28% of all existing home sales during the first three months of 2011.
'This is very bad for the economy,' said Rick Sharga, a spokesman for RealtyTrac.
What's more, the homes are selling at steep discounts, especially so-called REOs, bank-owned homes that have been taken in foreclosure procedures.
The average REO cost on average about 35% less than comparable properties, according to RealtyTrac."
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