Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Here's to you...RSM

Rancho Santa Margarita is 3rd in the county in terms of highest percentage of distressed properties (foreclosures and short sales) for sale. So, to celebrate, here is a quick tour of some of the 108 unfortunate distressed properties in RSM that are on the market.

First, a 2003 rollback...
89 Castano
Asking price: $179,000
Purchase price: $269,000 (5/31/2006)
2003 price: $185,000 (8/12/2003)
Size: 1 bed, 1 bath, 600 sq ft


About as close to a 2003 rollback as you can get...
10 Coralino
Asking price: $179,999
Purchase price: $265,000 (5/19/2005)
2003 price: $179,000 (1/28/2003)
Size: 1 bed, 2 baths, 720 sq ft


Your run-of-the-mill 2004 rollback...
16 Calle Vaqueta
Asking price: $545,000
Purchase price: $618,000 (5/26/2004)
Loss (incl. 6% sales costs): $105,700
Size: 4 beds, 2.5 baths, 1,600 sq ft


About a $200k loser. No photo...
7 Lompoc Ct
Asking price: $535,000
Purchase price: $700,000 (12/9/2005)
Loss: $197,100
Size: 4 beds, 3 baths, 2,080 sq ft

34% discount from last sale...
23 Via Cresta
Asking price: $204,000
Purchase price: $310,000 (5/27/2005)
Loss: $118,240
Size: 2 beds, 1 bath, 668 sq ft

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow keep those '03 rollbacks coming! When will it be '02 rollbacks?

Anonymous said...

I grew up in RSM in when it was first getting started. I left in 1991 and was shocked last year at how much it was developed. A good friend of mine from High School bought a house in RSM for $330k in 1999 and was upset when one of his neighbors was selling their house in Jan of 07 for only $790k, because it was worth $825k - yeah right. I was thinking it was only worth $450k max, and it probably will be in a few years.