Monday, August 31, 2009

Home sales may dry up in December

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BusinessWeek's Hot Property blog warns that home sales will dry up when the $8,000 tax credit goes away: Just when the home building in...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Has housing hit bottom?

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The arguments for and against a bottom, by USC professor Richard Green: Everybody wants to know if we have hit bottom. There are three indic...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Housing has likely bottomed. New bubble forming?

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as I'm sure you're already aware, almost all data seems to be indicating a bottom in housin...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Case Shiller Price Index Up

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"The prices of single-family homes in 20 major cities rose a seasonally adjusted 1.4% in June, the second increase in a row after falli...
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More bubbles to come

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"Helicopter" Ben Bernanke, a guy who cannot recognize asset bubbles, is to be reappointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve. From Th...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Correcting two related housing bubble myths

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A number of times I have heard journalists—who helped cheer-lead the housing bubble and who regard any price correction as a bad thing—false...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

An economic recovery forecast

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The Economist makes its prediction for the shape of the economic recovery: A gloomy U with a long, flat bottom of weak growth is the likeli...
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Urban planners vs. "suburban sprawl"

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Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O'Toole discusses urban planning and suburban sprawl.
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Existing home sales are up, but...

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From CNBC's Diana Olick: Just like in retail, where the big bargain stores are showing gains, only the low end of the housing market is ...
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1 in 8 mortgage borrowers behind on their mortgage

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More mortgage borrowers are falling behind: More than one in every eight homeowners with a mortgage was behind on home loan payments or in s...
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