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- Eugene RMLS Market Report – March 2008
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The median sale price for March 2008 was $228,500 this is a 3.6% decrease over the median sale price for March 2007.The Eugene residential real estate market peaked in June 2007 with a median sale price of $243,300. Prices have now fallen 6.1% from that peak.Months of supply (total inventory/monthly sales) sits at 8.4 months compared to the 4.5 months of supply for March 2007. A balanced market has between 6 and 8 months of supply.T…
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Grubb & Ellis expects large increase in Office Vacancy Rate
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From Financial Week: Big rise seen in unoccupied office space According to the real estate services firm Grubb & Ellis, first-quarter office vacancies rose to an average 13.6% nationally, up from 13% in the previous three quarters. “With demand turning negative at the same time that the construction pipeline will deliver the 94 million square feet still underway, vacancy is expected to peak at 18% by the end of 2009,” Grubb & Ellis economist Robert Bach wrote in a research note ……
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Portland Rental Market Tightens in 2008
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From the Oregonian:For owners of rental property in the Portland area, 2008 is shaping up to be a banner year.Across the region, rental units are full or turning over quickly, rents are steadily rising, new units are in demand and tenant turnover is slow.”We have 100 percent occupancy,” says Chris Cournoyer of City Houses Inc., which rents residential units in Northeast and Northwest Portland. “Three to four units transition each month, but they’re usually rented before they’re vacated.” …
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- [REO Sting] Honey, A Foreclosure Bee
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My assistant is a beekeeper so I have been especially attuned to the strange disappearance of more than 1/3 and perhaps as much as half the US bee population over the past year. For reasons unknown, the bees are flying away from their hives and not coming back.
There was a very good New York Times article by John Lelnad this weekend called…
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Minnesota’s new ghost towns
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From the Star Tribune, start with this 1+ minute audio slide show: Development dreams dashed (hat tip dryfly)Here is the article: Minnesota’s new ghost towns The roots of that financial crisis can be found in places like Wright County, where the combination of affordable land, cheap money and boundless optimism lured builders and families chasing big homes in the kind of brand-new subdivisions they thought were beyond their reach…..
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- It’s All A Big Tangled Mess
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The Vashon-Maury Island Bachcomber reports from Washington. “As Davina Dilley knows all too well, Vashon — like many other parts of the country — has seen a shift in the world of real estate: It’s now, she says, a buyers’ market. Davina and her husband put their house on the market last summer, hoping it might get snatched up quickly. At $539,000, the well-kept, 1,600-square-foot house — with a beautifully landscaped yard and woodsy, park-like setting — seemed priced right, Davina Dilley said.”
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- WSJ: BofE to Announce Bank Bailout Plan on Monday
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From the WSJ: Bank of England Will Unveil Bailout Plan for U.K. Banks Monday The Bank of England will announce Monday a scheme which will see it lend money to banks in return for collateral in a bid to help the troubled U.K. mortgage market, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Sunday.”The Bank of England will be making an announcement tomorrow in which what it will do is effectively lend banks money to unfreeze the [mortgage market] situation we’ve got at the moment,” Mr. Darling said in a television interview on the British Broadcasting Corporation…..
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- HousingPANIC Harsh Reality of the Day
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They’re eating dirt now in Haiti.Try to keep that in mind when you get in your SUV filled with ethanol-blend and drive to Wal-Mart today.
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- What Inning Is It?
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Readers suggested past housing bubble quotes and what they mean to the timing of the cycle for a topic. “How about a quick link to the retarded quotes we’ve heard over the years from useless turds like Lereah, (fun)Yun, Seiders, etc. There’s a treasure trove of classic $hit out there.”
One proposed, “A permanent Wall of Shame to show these, as they grow each and every day in the MSM.”
Another suggested a grading process, “Great idea. A nominating process would be in order.”
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Women as Regulators
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Like anyone else with even a modest dash of common sense, I am not sure I really want to wade into the issues Yves raises in this post. But having been personally wished on the inoffensive British–who have as far as I know done me and mine no particular harm since at least 1812, if you don’t count LIBOR and Diana–as a final rhetorical fillip, I feel as if I were already in one of the pitfalls, so there’s limited upside to trying too hard to avoid them….
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Bits Bucket And Craigslist Finds For April 20, 2008
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Please post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here.
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Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Thank you Alan Greenspan, Angelo Mozilo and the realtors of America for ruining families. Hope it was worth it.
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Hope it was worth it, you know, all those profits. All those commissions. All those bonuses. Meanwhile, watch for the divorce rate in the US to soar. Along with the crime rate, the domestic violence rate, the foreclosure rate, the murder rate, the unemployment rate, the inflation rate, the bankruptcy rate, ………….
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- The magic circle
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Over the last ten years, lenders have abandoned traditional borrowers in favour of buy-to-let investors and recidivistic remortgagers. While the drift to new markets was undoubtedly profitable, lenders are now beginning to understand that these new customers were only viable as long as house prices kept rising. Now that the market is weakening, buy-to-let investors and their bloated remortgaged cousins threaten the very stability of the UK banking system….
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- The most valuable real estate is that of the mind: bloggers are having an impact.
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Note: Once again, if you are looking for data and graphs, this is post is not for you.
So much could be said about this issue. One of the most fascinating developments to see unfold and the one theme I keep coming back to is how powerful blogging has been in shaping the mindset of the public when it comes to the real estate market, both nationally and locally. Not only is it powerful in the psyche of the buying or selling consumer, but also to those who actively work in real estate.
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Poll: How old are you?
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Please vote in this poll using the sidebar.
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 04.26.2008.
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Las Vegas Housing: Not Affordable Yet, But Getting Closer
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The foreclosures and falling prices in Las Vegas are not all bad:
A week-old study assessing housing affordability in Las Vegas is already well past its prime, local analysts say.
The 2008 Colorado College "State of the Rockies Report Card" found that just 18.9 percent of the Las Vegas Valley’s housing stock is attainable to workers earning the area’s median wage, which was $14.03 an hour in June, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation….
Original Source: housingdoom.com
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- [Getting Graphic] Of LTVs, Inventory Ratios And Of Course, Death Benefits
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Getting Graphic is a semi-sort-of-irregular collection of our favorite BIG real estate-related chart(s).Northern Trust’s Paul L. Kasriel has a great monthly publication and this month’s issue struck me as particularly telling.
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Original Source: matrix.millersamuel.com
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20 April, 2008| Uncategorized |
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- Gonna be traveling for a few days, should be able to keep up but have patience…
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Make my job easy, let me know what I need to post about hereBack to London for a bit… Home of the $25 movie ticket and $10 pint of beer…
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- [Frank Assessment] Systemic Risk Regulation
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Source: Slate
The innovation of the financial markets was so rapid that regulators did not have the ability to keep up. I don’t see how free markets can function without defined rules and boundaries when new products are introduced. The financial services sector didn’t understand what was in the products they sold, making an argument against de-regulation - the hallucination of reduced risk: …
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20 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Sheep Back to the Slaughter: Lessons from the Great Depression Part VIII: All the Change and Bear Market Rallies.
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How quickly people forget the lessons from the past. Last week was a complete bear market rally. We had a few companies such as Google and Honeywell announce solid earnings but the banking sector is still in the shambles. Here is a quick tip for any amateur investors, when a company announces massive layoffs this typically is good for the stock but bad for the economy. It is becoming rather apparent that what is good for Wall Street is only going to exasperate the common condition of the middle class of America. If stealth inflation wasn’t enough they now have to deal with watching a class of speculators make money on mal-investment in financially engineered products that do nothing for the well being of our country. Citigroup Inc. announced a $5.11 billion quarterly loss and future job cuts of 9,000 but rallied 7.49 percent during the week:
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