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Servicers: How More Properties Could Enter the Greek Market

Servicers: How More Properties Could Enter the Greek Market

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Buying or renting a property has become an unattainable dream for

Buying or renting a property has become an unattainable dream for a large portion of the population, a reality confirmed by the latest Alpha Bank report published yesterday. Despite recent Greek government initiatives, the housing crisis remains acute.

Demand continues to outpace supply, and the need to inject more properties into the market is more urgent than ever.

Bad Loans and Loan Servicers

Market experts believe that, in addition to building new homes, there’s another avenue to boost housing supply: the properties held by loan servicers. Loan servicers (or loan servicing companies) are specialized firms that manage loans on behalf of lenders or investors, particularly after the loan has been issued. They are commonly used in mortgage, consumer, and commercial lending.

These fall into two main categories and could provide much-needed relief to the housing market.

The first category includes an estimated 700,000 properties currently held by loan management companies. These cannot be sold on the market without the borrower’s consent. In such cases, servicers are already proposing “consensual sales” to the borrowers, allowing the property to be sold with the borrower’s agreement.

The second category consists of properties that have ended up in servicers’ portfolios following foreclosure auctions.

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