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According to a new study published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, property sales on foreclosed homes don’t lead to solutions to problems stemming from vacancy because often the buyers are also investors looking to resell the property… “A lot of them are being sold to an investor and staying vacant,” says Dan Immergluck, an urban planning professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the author of the study. “You have the same problem as before.”
