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Foreclosures in Phoenix may jump because of Arizona’s harsh new anti-immigration law.
Arizona’s harsh new anti-immigration law, SB-1070, has already prompted an “exodus of people — both legal and illegal residents” — from the state. Of more concern, however, is the controversial immigration law’s impact on Arizona’s housing market recovery. Real estate advocates explain that before the housing market crashed, “thousands if not tens of thousands of people who are not legal residents…purchased houses” in Arizona. In Phoenix, AZ, eager lenders “didn’t check documentation” when issuing loans and many people involved in real estate operated on a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Although the law has yet to go into effect, there are worries that the increasing departures will have a negative impact on Arizona’s housing market:
“Estimates are that there are several hundred thousand undocumented aliens residing in Arizona,” said Phoenix housing analyst Mike Orr, publisher of the Cromford Report, a daily housing-research report. “If the law has the intended effect and these people do leave, then both population and demand for housing will probably decline.”
Since the state’s employer-sanctions law passed in 2007, [Margie] O’Campo said she’s seen many undocumented homeowners lose homes to foreclosure, either because their lenders won’t work with them or because they can’t sell and want to leave the state. The 2007 law makes it illegal to knowingly hire undocumented workers in the state.
A recent report from the Department of Homeland Security found that “more than 100,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona in 2008, more than any other state. Metro Phoenix foreclosures and apartment vacancies both jumped that year.”
– Nina Bhattacharya
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man, there will be some swell houses to pick up...
glassman
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there were awesome deals in Maricopa (the city nothe county) last year at this time..
i was looking at houses that were 150K asking and the taxes on them indicated they had last sold for 350K.....
they are still there:
Address Property Type Price 45679 W DUTCHMAN DRIVE, Maricopa Single Family - Detached $125,000 *Reduced*
5 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2,751 - 3,000 SqFt. More Details...
Contact: Jay Shaver Phone: 602-228-2384 Email: jay@findmaricopa.com
taxes on that one are 2178.. that is 1% of the last sale price....
that house is only a couple years old, and it's huge....
i found custom builts on acreage for 195K ...
the one i wanted also a had three outbuilding one of them a six bay garage one of them a 40X40 air conditioned shop and the other a stable... it was only 185K....
there were over a hundred foreclosures in Maricopa city alone.... and many more waiting to be foreclosed...
glassman
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here's th ecurrent foreclosure list in Maricopa right now:
17 pages long
this one looks nice at 209K, bet you can get it for 150K:
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