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- White House opposes housing package
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- [In The Media] BBC World Business Report Clip For 4-24-08
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Today I was interviewed by BBC TV on the housing market, specifically relating to the new home stats released today by the US Commerce Department:
Sales of new one-family houses in March 2008 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 526,000, according to
estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Original Source: matrix.millersamuel.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- An Adjustment Was Due In California
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The Sacramento Bee reports from California. “After months of wrangling with lenders over huge debts accumulated during the housing boom, prominent Sacramento-area home builder John D. Reynen filed Wednesday for personal bankruptcy protection. Analysts say the value of thousands of acres the company bought at high boom prices three and four years ago has collapsed at the same time the firm’s home sales have fallen. The company has since halted much of its home building.”
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Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Early Nominees for Word(s) of the Year
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Last year we had “subprime” and “contained”, two words frequently used together as by Bernanke in March 2007: “the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained”. Contained became a joke at the end of many posts, and Tanta’s brilliant - “…
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- The look for less: kitchen and bath bargains
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Most times you get what you pay for, but sometimes you luck out. Here are a few true deals, with features of higher-end products for less money.
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- 9 ways to enhance a home’s curb appeal
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Just as every mother believes her son is a handsome devil, we homeowners tend to see the best in our houses - or at least we become comfortably familiar with the way they look.
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Backlash grows against the bailout
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Why should American taxpayers have to pay to bailout reckless lenders and borrowers?
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Rates on 30-year mortgages top 6%
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Money’s Too Tight
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Money’s Too Tight to Mention — Simply Red
Everyone was livin’ large with all that HELOC money coming in. Now that the housing ATM has been shut off, money is too tight to mention. …
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Bad to Worse for Builders
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Posted By:Diana OlickSales of new homes plummeted 8.5 percent in March from the month before, prices made a fall not seen since 1970, dropping 13 percent year over year, and inventories of new homes hit an eleven-month supply. We haven’t seen that kind of pace in 27 years. …
Original Source: media.cnbc.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- S&P: Oil at $91 Year End, +/- $50
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From S&P (via MarketWatch): S&P sees oil at $91 at year-end, U.S. in a recession The American economy is in a recession, which is projected to be short and mild, while oil will likely trade at $91 a barrel by the end of the year, though the range of that forecast is plus or minus $50, Standard & Poor’s said Thursday. …
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Home Buying Demand vs. Price Changes
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In theory, there are two factors that affect the price of homes: supply and demand. We’ve looked extensively at the relationship between supply (inventory) and price in the past. Let’s take a look at the relationship between demand and price.
For the purpose of this post, we will measure demand by looking at the relationship between the number of closed sales in a month and the total population. For population, I’ll be using the “Civilian Labor Force” data from W…
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- An Unsustainable, Unprecedented Run-Up
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Some MarketWatch news from Wall Street and Washington. MarketWatch, “U.S. home builders have slashed their prices by a record amount, but sales still plunged by 8.5% to a 17-year low in March, the Commerce Department estimated Thursday. The decline in new-home sales to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 526,000. New-home sales are down 36.6% compared with a year ago and are down 62% from the peak in July 2005. February’s sales pace was revised lower to 575,000 from 590,000.”
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Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Foreclosed: Predicting Foreclosures in California. How Many Homes will Be Foreclosed in 2008?
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Making predictions is a tricky business. Just ask any political pundit or economist how easy it is to forecast the future. Yet we have enough current data from multiple sources to give us a solid idea that foreclosures, the ultimate finality to housing distress will continue to be a problem for the upcoming years. California is not immune to this and in fact, will have a much larger problem because of the magnitude of price increases over the past decade.There are multiple factors that will continue to put pressure on the California housing market:
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Original Source: feeds.feedburner.com/DrHousingBubble-HowILearnedToLoveSocal
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Architecture Billings Index Falls to Record Low Level
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Here is a glimpse of the future, especially for commercial real estate.From the American Institute of Architects: Architecture Billings Index Drops to its Lowest Level Ever…
Original Source: bp2.blogger.com/_pMscxxELHEg/SBC_yMncvd
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- New home glut: Inventory at 27-year-high
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Breaking news from M…
Original Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- The maxed out ratio
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Take a look at gross lending as a percent of GDP and you begin to understand why the housing bubble has reached the end of the road. Housing credit has grown far faster than output, and is now at an unsustainable level. The economy has taken on too much debt, and like a child that has eaten too much birthday cake, it is now feeling nauseous. The economy is heading for the bathroom, and it is about to throw up….
Original Source: bp1.blogger.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- The Columbian Stumbles Again
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Last week The Columbian trumpeted the drop in months of supply for the Vancouver housing market. The ratio dropped from 14.6 to 11.9; a balance market has between 6 and 8 months of supply.I feel obligated to compare their optimistic interpretation to the total supply of homes on the market….
Original Source: feeds.feedburner.com/portlandhousingblogspot
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Home builders: No recovery until 2009
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The damaged housing and home construction markets will continue to take a beating at least through the end of the year, according to economists who spoke Thursday at a forecast conference sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders.
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Original Source: money.cnn.com
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Is The Bottom Near?
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Professor Duy shares his thoughts on when the bottom of the recession will occur…Tim Duy looks for signs that the bottom of the cycle is approaching…
Original Source: feeds.feedburner.com/portlandhousingblogspot
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24 April, 2008| housingblogs |
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