Fresno REALTOR® Joseph Hollak Completes Training to Counsel Real Estate Investors

Feb. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- Fresno, CA –  Fresno Realtor® Joseph Hollak, from the Hollak Real Estate Group with Keller Williams Realty in Fresno California has earned the prestigious Certified Investor Agent Specialist™ (CIAS) Designation.

“Real estate investors provide much needed stability to the Fresno / Clovis real estate market by decreasing vacancy rates, improving neighborhoods, and providing families with a home to rent," Hollak said.

Over the past 12 months, investment and second-home properties comprised more than $300 billion in sales, representing approximately 27 percent of all residential real estate transactions nationwide. In addition, in market conditions affected by mortgage industry challenges, 48 percent of investors made all-cash purchases.

With the CIAS Designation training, Hollak will help real estate investors build wealth through real estate investment, and help homeowners facing foreclosure find potential buyers for their financially distressed properties.

Today, millions of homeowners are either delinquent on their mortgages or in the foreclosure process. One potential solution for homeowners in this situation is a short sale, in which the lien holder accepts a sale price of the home that is less than the mortgage amount owed. Increasingly, real estate investors are facilitating this solution.

“When it comes to properties that actually end up in foreclosure,” Hollak added, “up to 30 percent of them can’t close with conventional home loans. Investors are often the only ones who can buy them.”

Not every local real estate agent is a REALTOR®, and not every local REALTOR® is a Certified Investor Agent Specialist™.

The Distressed Property Institute provides live and online CIAS Courses to train real estate professionals how to address the needs of all real estate investors.

For more information about the CIAS Designation, visit www.cias.com.

To search current real estate investment properties in Fresno County, visit http://www.CalHomePro.com.


For more information, please contact:

Joseph Hollak
Realtor® | Certified Investor Agent Specialist™
Hollak Real Estate Group
(559) 399-0004 | office
hollak@kw.com

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