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- They're All Bubbles to Me
- Sold At The Top submits: Wells Fargo WFC has decided that they are going to implement a new “Pick-A-Writedown” program whereby they shoehorn their massively underwater “Pick-A-Pay” borrowers into interest only loans rather than face the writedown reality. This is a desperate attempt by the bank and shows...
- External links 2009-11-04
- 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
- Production Pullback: Industrial Activity for August 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Yesterday, the Federal Reserve released their monthly read of industrial production showing a continued upturn to the aggregate production mostly as a result of a significant “cash-for-clunkers” fueled increase in durable goods while many other components continue to show notable weakness. click to...
- External links 2009-09-17
- 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
- The Great Unwind
- Sold At The Top submits: Inflation or deflation… stag-flation, stag-deflation … hyper-inflation… possibly even hyper-deflation… or maybe just a bout of frisky-flation?Never has it been so hard for the consensus to agree on the coming trend in prices but given the circumstances, it should come as no surprise....
- External links 2009-09-14
- Two Great Market Bounces
- Sold At The Top submits: The following charts click to enlarge provide a simple comparison between the big stock bounce that occurred in the wake of the DOW crash of 1929 and the bounce we saw yesterday in the S&P 500 index.The method of alignment was simple… take...
- External links 2009-09-09
- The FHA Meltdown
- Sold At The Top submits: Back in 2006 and 2007 I detailed the push by the Washington elites to “modernize” the FHA by lowering its standards effectively making it more “competitive” with the other major government and private institutions operating in the nation’s mortgage market.Back then it appeared...
- External links 2009-09-08
- MBA Application Survey - The Latest Data
- 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 2009-09-03
- Pending Home Sales: July 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Tuesday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its Pending Home Sales Report for July showing a 12% year-over-year increase in pending home sales nationally ,led by a simply whopping 20% year-over-year increase in pending sales seen in the heavily foreclosure laden markets...
- External links 2009-09-02
- 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
- 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
- Analyzing Pending Home Sales: September 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their Pending Home Sales Report for September showing a whopping 21.2% 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 Lawrence...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Construction Spending Review: September 2009
- Sold At The Top submits: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released their September read of construction spending showing a continuation 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 construction spending...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Rough Sledding Ahead for U.S. Housing Market
- Sold At The Top submits: The “extra-seasonal” housing price rally brought on by the governments tremendously expensive and poorly targeted housing tax credit gimmick is now thoroughly and completely over.How many “homebuyers” have jumped at that $8000 carrot only to now find that Uncle Sam was dangling it...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Ticking Prime Bomb: Fannie Mae Monthly Summary, September 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...
- External links 2009-11-02
- 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
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