forced sales

Creditors forced sales -- you know, "Come up with the cash or we're going to have to liquidate you. "

Still, few of those sales are of new homes and a rising proportion are forced sales of homes no longer worth the amount that was borrowed.

Fans of the new rules argue that mark-to-market accounting forced banks into a vicious spiral of forced sales and more losses.

Directly addressing housing problems, including moving to limit foreclosures and reduce the forced sales that follow foreclosures.

Yet perhaps attention should be directed to forced sales through foreclosures because these swamp all other factors.

Some fear that accounting dogma has caused a cycle of falling asset prices and forced sales that endangers financial stability.

The oil price fall triggered the problems for hedge funds, which finally spilled over into forced sales of equities.

Forced sales of assets and cutbacks in debt are likely to continue apace in the major economies.

Some made forced sales after being told "either you sell to me or your widow will. "

Longer term, the more that forced sales can be averted, the less prices will fall.

Forced sales push down the prices of assets, worsening the balance-sheets of other investors, forcing more asset sales, and so on.

Executions and other kinds of forced sales do not involve the negotiation of terms by the parties.

The first half of 2009 will be bad in commercial property with forced sales pushing up yields against a background of weakening rents.

Prices are falling and more forced sales will add to the already swollen stocks of unsold homes.

A lot of forced sales will cause asset prices to fall and make creditors even less willing to extend loans.