San Antonio, Texas Real Estate Blog & Market News - Blog Archive: December, 2009 | Page #2

Many think of only the homeowners when they hear of the record number of foreclosures across the country. However, it is often the renters that pay in this brutal real estate market. Many renters, for example, have been evicted from their homes because the owners of the homes in which they are living are foreclosed upon. Many times, it is the renters that receive a notice of eviction, not from their landlord, but from the lender that foreclosed on the home. And, unfortunately, many of these renters find themselves without homes and without their security deposits.  In addition, because of the high foreclosure rates, many cities, including San Antonio, have seen rent prices increasing sharply and vacancy rates dropping.

Across the country, vacancy rates…

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The Bexar County Appraisal District is taking the national economy mess into its own hands by lowering or freezing property appraisals in Bexar County. Although San Antonio certainly hasn't been hit has hard as other areas of the country when it comes to the housing market decline and the credit crisis, there are signs that Bexar County is struggling, and will continue to do so in the upcoming year.

The Bexar County Appraisal District certainly considered this sobering statistic when they decided to drop the average residential property appraisal value by two percent, compared to 2008. There certainly is a lot to be said for the drop in property appraisal values, as the last time Bexar County saw a decrease in property appraisals was during the savings…

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