House Flipping And How Florida Foreclosures Hurts The Market

Florida real estate markets and the phenomenon of Florida foreclosures have lately come into sharp focus down in the Sunshine State

. It has much to do with a lot of the speculation in land and properties that's been going on down in Florida for many years, to tell the truth. Unfortunately, speculation can always lead to an inevitable decline in property values, which it's done in Florida of late.

Why so many people believed that property values would continue to rise indefinitely is a mystery, and maybe it's because Florida real estate has been on a steady upward curve for quite a while until the last 18 or so months. Once the recession really began to kick in, though, Florida eventually started to follow the rest of the country in its real estate behavior.

For a while, Florida was able to avoid many of the problems with the housing bubble burst that had bedeviled California and other states and cities like Las Vegas, where home prices have absolutely cratered in the last couple of years. One reason may have been because the state -- with no personal income tax -- continued to attract a steady stream of new residents for a bit longer than most other states, all of whom began to experience out-migration.

This sort of out-migration -- where more people leave the state then migrate into it -- presented states like California, which has experienced it in small numbers for at least a decade, with a big problem. Less people means less taxes, in effect. Florida continued to duck this issue for some time because low unemployment and nice weather attracted more people than ended up leaving.

It shouldn't be any surprise that Florida would be no more immune to this issue than any other state, though it took the recession to finally bring that fact into focus starting in late 2008. Property values have declined and unemployment has increased. Anyone who bought into the idea that overpriced real estate would continue increasing in value is being taught a lesson right now.

This led to a condition where those holding real estate now owed more on that real estate than it was worth, and probably would be that way for the foreseeable future. Combined with the in increase in unemployment, this drop in property values has led to a widespread phenomenon where property owners are finding themselves left with increasingly fewer options for holding onto that property. Foreclosure, then, has become an inevitable result for many.

It really doesn't need to be that way, because there are several different programs that can help homeowners avoid foreclosure and also help the state reduce the number of FL foreclosures over time. Whether Florida real estate ever really acts as rationally as it should is a question, but if it can there's a possibility that real estate can return to being the investment vehicle that many once assumed it would always be.

by: Jack Bennington

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