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« December 2007 | | February 2008 »


January 24, 2008

It's Getting Harder To Hide From Housing Bust

Source: Wall Street Journal: Supply Grows, Prices Weaken In Northwest, North Carolina; Manhattan Looks Vulnerable

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January 22, 2008

Fed Slashes Interest Rate

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Traders React to Fed Cut

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Paper: Is the 2007 US Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different?”

University of Maryland economist Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff agree. They say the current crisis appears on track to be at least as bad as the five most catastrophic financial crises to hit industrialized countries since World War II.


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Recession is upon us

Quoted from the Wall Street Journal:

University of Maryland economist Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff agree. They say the current crisis appears on track to be at least as bad as the five most catastrophic financial crises to hit industrialized countries since World War II.

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January 18, 2008

Housing Downturn: Outlook is Bleak

Mark Zandi of Moody's:

''I think this housing downturn will be unprecedented in terms of its breadth across the country and in its severity,'' Zandi said. ''I don't think we have seen anything like this, certainly since the Great Depression, and back then housing was much less of a factor in terms of the overall economy because fewer people owned their own homes.''

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January 11, 2008

Homebuilding Initiation: Down But Not Out

Ivy Zelman shares her research and insight on the current housing market. Zelman of Zelman and Associates covers supply and demand, value of real estate, operational initiatives, and macroeconomic implications.

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Historical Evidence of US Home Price Booms and Busts 1978-2003

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Tightening of the Housing Food Chain

A March 2007 subprime report by Ivy Zelman. If only...

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January 10, 2008

A Broken Bank Model

WSJ's economic editor David Wessel counts the ways the business model for U.S. Banks is broken. He says one solution is to make the originators of loans hold some of the risk.

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Housing demand falling faster than inventories

Inventories declined in 15 of 19 major U.S. markets during the fourth quarter as sellers dropped their listing prices in most areas, but time on market continued to increase, indicating that demand fell faster than inventories were reduced. (Source: InmanNews)


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January 09, 2008

Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Like an Ostrich

"Sometimes I go into these vacant homes and I see all these letters from the bank that have never been opened. They figure if they don't look at it, it doesn't exist. These letters are the banks pleading with people to please call me and maybe we can work something out."

- Ralph Newkirk, who runs the foreclosure division for local Michigan realtor Real Estate One. (Source: Ann Arbor News)

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Measuring Subprime's Depth

From the Wall Street Journal:
Key points:
-Foreclosures to continue through 2009
-Reset rates on adjustable rate loans - unlikely to refinance given price depreciation
-Solutions to restructure loans - lenders and borrowers - to save neighborhoods and home values

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January 07, 2008

Home Prices May See 3-year Fall

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Real Estate Intelligence Report

It comes as little surprise that residential home values fell further in almost all the major markets in the United State. The Slatin Report:

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January 05, 2008

Evaluating Return on Real Estate

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