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- The Case for Higher Interest Rates and Lower Home Prices
- With the continual prodding by many to initiate 4.5% mortgage rates to pacify the current housing market glut, it's important to distinguish the effects based on two categories of buyers:Existing mortgage refinancingHome Purchase Mortgages Fundamentally, the problem with this policy is that it is likely to have a minimal effect...
- External links 2008-12-25
- San Francisco Housing Supply Is Not at a Two-Year Low
- Know that uneasy feeling you get when you ask a real estate agent - "Hey, how's the market in my town?," only to have them reply with - "Oh! It's fantastic! What a great time to buy or sell!" That's kind of how I felt when I read...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Housing Demand Is Back in San Jose
- San Jose, after three year of consistent ask price declines, is finally showing an uptick this Spring: When examining housing activity by price quartile, it's interesting to see how the San Jose market has developed, inverted, and returned back to replicate 2005 activity. by Scott Sambucci
- External links 2009-05-26
- Housing Market: The 'End of the Beginning'
- The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced some encouraging news that pending sales rose 3.2% and construction spending moved positively in March. When asked about this release in a radio interview yesterday morning on NPR's Marketplace segment, I mentioned that this means that we're perhaps reaching the "end of...
- External links 2009-05-05
- Housing: Spring Cleaning in Phoenix
- Much has been made about Phoenix home prices falling more than 50% from their peak according the February S&P Case Shiller Index released this week. So is this a sign a weakness, or just the market clearing itself in due time? Since early February, the number of listings...
- External links 2009-05-01
- Ingrid Beckles: Freddie Mac's Plan for the Housing Market
- Ingrid Beckles, Senior Vice President of Default Asset Management at Freddie Mac, opened the SourceMedia’s 3rd Annual Mortgage Servicing conference this week in Westlake, TX with perspectives and plans regarding the US housing market and foreclosures. Here’s a summary of the key points of her presentation [along with some personal...
- External links 2009-04-09
- Housing Activity: Isolated to the Bottom Price Segment
- Using current housing market ask prices (a.k.a. “list prices” of on-market properties) to track the cities in the Case-Shiller Composite-10 Index, there’s clear evidence that prices are increasing across the country so far this year: click to enlarge by Scott Sambucci
- External links 2009-03-30
- Home Prices Are Taking a Breather Before Heading Lower
- Now that we’ve moved full throttle into the housing market’s Spring-time selling season, it’s interesting to look at ask prices in the market to see where price levels are headed in the short term. The Altos Research 10-City Composite Index, which tracks the Case-Shiller Composite-10 Home Price Index in...
- External links 2009-03-11
- Stimulus SmackDown: Can Deficit Spending Save the Economy?
- It wasn’t Ali-Frazier or even Hagler-Hearns, but the live debate hosted by University of California-Davis Institute of Government Affairs Wednesday night between Michele Boldrin of the CATO Institute and Washington University and J. Bradford DeLong of UC-Berkeley – “Stimulus SmackDown: Can Deficit Spending Save the Economy?” - proved entertaining nonetheless....
- External links 2009-03-06
- Can We Expect a Springtime Bounce in Housing Prices?
- Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow last week, “so 6 more weeks of winter it will be…” Seems it’s been a nuclear winter in most housing markets for a couple of years now. But, when Spring finally does arrive, it’ll bring the annual seasonal optimism...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Finding the Real Estate Turnaround
- At last week’s Inman News Real Estate Connect NYC 2009 conference, several key suppliers of real estate market information participated in a panel discussion – “Crunching the Numbers To Find the Turnaround” - moderated by Alison Rogers, Licensed Salesperson and author of Diary of a Real Estate Rookie. The participants...
- External links 2009-01-13
- Are Home Sellers' Price Expectations Really That Inflated?
- There’s a general perception that sellers have unrealistic expectations when listing their properties for sale – that a seller’s listing price for his home the ask price is often far above the eventual closed price. At this year’s American Economic Association conference in San Francisco this week, Frank Heiland from...
- External links 2009-01-05
- The Housing Market Will Improve with Lower Prices, not Lower Interest Rates
- I received a link to this article on Twitter from Paul Kedrosky, author of Infectious Greed, on John Taylor’s criticism of the Federal Reserve’s recent monetary policy. I was drawn to the post because of the chatter that I hear from residential mortgage brokers applauding cheaper money (a.k.a. lower interest...
- External links 2008-12-26
- Does Autumn Mean 'Fall' for the U.S. Housing Market?
- Now that we're out of the summer and into October, I did some quick data checks on key market indicators for the US housing market this morning. The short term positives signs are that inventory is tightening, days-on-market is stabilizing, and fewer sellers are relisting their properties. The short term...
- External links 2009-10-07
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