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Category Archives: National Real Estate
Case Shiller Day!
From Reuters: US home prices to eke out small June gain U.S. home prices likely eked out a small gain in June, but a rise would represent the final tail-winds of the homebuyer tax credit that ended in April rather … Continue reading
“The housing market should improve but it probably won’t.”
Posted in Economics, National Real Estate
110 Comments
From Time: Housing Market: What’s Ahead? Are housing prices near a bottom? It’s not just policymakers, realtors and bankers who yearn for the turn. Anyone who owns a house, a condo or coop is surely wishing for some modest improvement. … Continue reading
There are no American soldiers in Baghdad
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
79 Comments
From the NY Times (Hat tip Cindy): Widespread Fear Freezes Housing Market You have to wonder sometimes what they’re smoking over there at the National Association of Realtors. On Tuesday, the self-proclaimed “voice for real estate” released its “existing home … Continue reading
Home price outlook not rosy
Posted in Economics, National Real Estate
185 Comments
From MacroMarkets: Home Price Expectations Continue to Dim “For the third consecutive month, the consensus from the experts indicates weakened overall confidence in the U.S. housing recovery, with only 21% of our panelists now predicting positive growth in prices nation-wide … Continue reading
Housing transitions from cash cow to dog
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
112 Comments
From the NYT: Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say Housing will eventually recover from its great swoon. But many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in … Continue reading
How do we sleep when our beds are sinking?
Posted in Foreclosures, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
95 Comments
From Reuters: Dropout Rate for Mortgage Aid Program Nearly 50%: Treasury The percentage of homeowners dropping out of the Obama administration’s premier housing rescue program rose in July to nearly half of participants, as owners receiving aid continued to struggle … Continue reading
Hot Potato
Posted in Housing Bubble, National Real Estate, Risky Lending
182 Comments
From Housingwire: Fitch: Big Four Banks Face $180bn in Buybacks from Fannie and Freddie Government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae may exercise the right to force the big four banks, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, and … Continue reading
6.67% of mortgage holders late in Q2
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, National Real Estate, New Jersey Real Estate, Risky Lending
95 Comments
From Forbes: Late mortgage payments spike in 2Q vs year ago The rate at which U.S. homeowners fell behind on their mortgage payments remained stubbornly elevated in the second quarter. In the three months ended June 30, the number of … Continue reading
Fannie reform unlikely as housing dips again
Posted in Economics, National Real Estate, Risky Lending
115 Comments
From the WSJ: Housing Ills Cloud Debate on Fannie All year long, the Obama administration has defended its decision to postpone the debate over the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by arguing that it first needed to put … Continue reading
600,000 REO homes and rising
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
160 Comments
From CNBC: Foreclosure Math: Shadow Inventory Adds Up It’s the real key to the housing recovery. If we know exactly how much shadow inventory of foreclosed properties will come to market, and we know the general demand, then we can … Continue reading
More homeowners to take a dip, and walk away
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
152 Comments
From HousingWire: 20m Borrowers Could Be Underwater before 2012: Deutsche Bank More than 14m borrowers were underwater as of Q110, owing more on a mortgage than the value of the underlying property. But with a further 10.8% decline in house … Continue reading
Pending home sales at 9 year low, Northeast leads decline
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
157 Comments
From CNBC: Pending Home Sales Sink 2.6 Percent in June From the AP: Pending home sales sink 2.6 percent in June he number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in June, as the weak economy and tight … Continue reading
Greenspan: Double dip “possible, if home prices go down.”
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, National Real Estate
117 Comments
From the LA Times: Alan Greenspan: A drop in home prices could lead to second recession Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said over the weekend that a decline in home prices could derail an already slowing economic recovery and … Continue reading
New Jersey housing demand “sluggish and lacking momentum”
From the Federal Reserve: Beige Book – Second District–New York Construction and Real Estate Housing markets have softened somewhat, on balance, since the last report, with much of the weakening attributed to the expiration of the home-buyer tax credit. An … Continue reading
May Case Shiller Day!
From Bloomberg: Home Prices Probably Rose in Year Ended May as U.S. Tax Credit Aided Sales Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in May from a year earlier as a government tax credit temporarily underpinned sales, economists forecast a … Continue reading