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- Oct. '09 Construction Spending: Notable Slowing of Government-Fueled Bounce
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its October read of construction spending showing a notable slowing of the government’s tax-carrot fueled bounce in residential construction spending while indicating an acceleration in weakness to non-residential construction spending. Even with the governments tax-credit gimmick residential...
- External links 2009-12-01
- Oct. 2009 Pending Home Sales: Whopping Bounce Due to Housing Tax Gimmick
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its Pending Home Sales Report for October showing a whopping 31.8% year-over-year increase in pending home sales nationally coming largely as a result of the governments historic housing tax gimmick. Meanwhile, the NARs chief economist...
- External links 2009-12-01
- How Long Can the Dow Keep the Bull Run Going?
- Sold At The Top submits: The following charts provide a simple comparison between the big stock bounce that occurred in the wake of the Dow crash of 1929 and the bounce we are seeing today in the S&P 500 index. The method of alignment was simple… take the...
- External links 2009-12-03
- Crashachusetts Sept. 2009 Existing Home Sales and Prices: Don't Be Fooled by Headline Numbers
- Sold At The Top submits: This week, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report for September showing that single family homes sales jumped 4.6% on a year-over-year basis while condo sales surged 12.2% over the same period.Single family median home value declined 1.7%...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Reading Rates: Parsing the Weekly MBA Application Survey (October 7, 2009)
- Sold At The Top submits: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage originations and tracks the average interest rate for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages, 1 year ARMs as well...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Reading Rates: Parsing the Weekly MBA Application Survey (10/14/09)
- Sold At The Top submits: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage originations and tracks the average interest rate for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages, 1 year ARMs as well...
- External links 2009-10-14
- This Bull Is on the Move
- Sold At The Top submits: Bears!… get out of the way this Mo-Fuxxer on the loose! Yea sure he’s not exactly driving in style… but propped atop that clunker economy and with veins literally coursing with government stimulants he’s got all four hooves planted firmly on the accelerator......
- External links 2009-10-15
- Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Homebuilder Ratings, October 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: On Monday, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a decrease to the overall index as well as all component indices.It's important to recognize that although each sentiment index has now shown year-over-year increases, their...
- External links 2009-10-21
- New Residential Construction Report: September 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Yesterday’s New Residential Construction Report was another blow to the “Green Shoots” crowd with single family permits declining on a month-to-month basis in all regions except the northeast. The latest results continue to indicate that the increase in new construction activity that...
- External links 2009-10-21
- GGP's Nouvelle Disaster
- Sold At The Top submits: Longtime PaperEconomy readers will remember that I have been following, with a little Schadenfreude, the events surrounding the “luxury” condo-retail hybrid development attached to the new Natick Mall in Natick Massachusetts (read here, here, here, here and here).Well… a lot has transpired since...
- External links 2009-10-07
- All Eyes on the Residential Real Estate Radar
- Sold At The Top submits: Now that summer has drawn to a close, it’s important that all spectators of residential real estate draw a bead on the Radar Logic home prices indices.Arguably the two best features of the Radar Logic indices is that they are published daily and...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Ticking Prime Bomb: Fannie Mae Monthly Summary, August 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Decades from now the summer of 2008 will likely be remembered to mark the turning point where legislative blundering took an otherwise serious financial crisis and molested it into an epic financial collapse.By fully assuming the liabilities of Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Reviewing July's S&P / Case-Shiller Housing Numbers
- Sold At The Top submits: click all charts to enlarge Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price indices for July 2009 showed a continued strong bounce in prices with the Composite-10 index increasing 1.65% on a month-to-month basis. by Sold At The Top
- External links 2009-09-29
- Parsing the Existing Home Sales Report: August 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Existing Home Sales Report for August showing a notable decline sales activity sin July while continuing to indicate an increase on a year-over-year basis.Existing single family home sales were up 3.4% on a year-over-year...
- External links 2009-09-24
- Follow the Leader: Index of Leading Economic Indicators, August 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Today’s results of the Conference Board’s Leading Economic Indicators showed another significant monthly increase climbing .6% compared to July, bringing the annual increase to 1.89% and leaving the index at a level of 102.5. On the face of it this is clearly a...
- External links 2009-09-21
- Homebuilder Blues: NAHB / Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings Report, September 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Yesterday, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released its latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing a slight increase to the overall index as well as most component indices.It's important to recognize that although each sentiment index has now shown year-over-year increases, their...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Hudson City Bancorp Prime Delinquencies: Q3 2009 Sees Portfolio Stress
- Sold At The Top submits: Hudson City Bancorp (NYSE:HCBK), fully recognized as the poster child for “safe” prime-only mortgage lending and whose CEO’s frequent media appearances (particularly on Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money”) usually come with heaping portions of high praise and accolades, appears now to be fully experiencing...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Breaking Down New Home Sales: September 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the U.S. Census Department released its monthly New Residential Home Sales Report for September showing both significant revisions to prior months results as well as a whopping 3.6% month-to-month decline in sales of newly constructed single family dwellings bringing the seasonally adjusted...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey (October 28 2009)
- Sold At The Top submits: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage originations and tracks the average interest rate for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages, 1 year ARMs as well...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Nine Regional Housing Markets Now Down Below March Lows... and Counting
- Sold At The Top submits: The extra-seasonal, “cash for first time homedebtors” fueled housing price bounce having reached its peak in most markets in mid-summer now appears to be completely reverting for some.The Radar Logic home price data now indicates that there are nine regional markets that have...
- External links 2009-11-30
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