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• The US government through the FHA is now the new sub-prime lender.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Lending standards have deteriorated again. And it’s no surprise that the housing market has reacted in the same way as in the previous housing boom. But poor lending standards lead to a lot of bad loans. And when the government ends up in a big hole with big losses on their mortgage securities. Then there won’t ...
  18 hours ago

• “The owners have already walked out — just given up”

  
  New Jersey Real Estate Report — Authority: 129
  From the Press of Atlantic City: Sheriff’s sales increase as housing bust continues Larry Notch may have the most difficult job at the Cape May County Sheriff’s Office. The veteran investigator is in charge of serving court papers on homeowners who are so far in debt that they are at risk of losing their ...
  1 day ago

• Global Art Market As Bubble Meter, Chinas Fast Expanding Role

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 135
  Even in the global art markets, the Chinese growth juggernaut appears to be shifting the playing field in her favor. This from the Economist (bold highlight mine), "LAST year China overtook France as the world’s third-biggest art market after America and Britain. Thanks to shifts in policy, which once ...
  1 day ago

• Judge Annoyed With Lender, Cancels Mortgage

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  This is a case that is liable to stir up heated debate.  A New York couple couldn’t get their lender to modify their mortgage– so the judge wipes out the debt: The $527,437 mortgage of a couple in Long Island, N.Y., has been canceled by a judge who criticized their lender’s "unconscionable" lack of good ...
  1 day ago

• “Price Does Not Include Kitchen Cabinets Or Appliances”

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  M just sent me the listing for 9866 E Granite Peak Trail in Scottsdale, AZ. In the "Remarks" section it says, "List price does not include kitchen cabinets and appliances.  Owner is taking them with him.  M asked, Is the agent openly aiding bank fraud?? I’m wondering the same thing.  [ There are no ...
  1 day ago

• Paging Barney Frank

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 127
  The motel room seemed to shrink as days wore on, and their belongings bulged from its one dresser and closet. Papers. Clothes. Hair accessories. Room 267 had become a cramped way station for a family of four, far from what Daverena White had in mind when she decided to buy a house. via Fallout: In the real estate ...
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• Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to November 25, 2009

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  The Fed’s own MBS holdings were up a modest $5.083 billion and foreign central banks were buying the stuff too, if less than a billion dollars worth. The real shocker was a biggish dump of Treasury Debt. Where did that come from? This week’s Reuters report 1 was, as usual, based on the weekly update from ...
  1 day ago

• Housing Experts Predict 45% Fall in Home Values

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 146
  The bubble has popped and housing prices have plunged all over the country. Yet, some housing experts claim that there is still a lot of hot real estate air to be released from the past bubble and predict even more agony to come to suffering property owners.The 10 major cities in the Standard & ...
  1 day ago

• Gloom, Doom, Dubai and Housing

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  By now you’ve probably heard about the situation in Dubai, where Dubai has sought a six-month extension on the debts of Dubai World, which reportedly has debts of at least $60 billion.  Markets around the world have responded negatively, as well as the in the U.S. Randall Forsyth of Barron’s sounds ominous about ...
  1 day ago

• Oh No! Another REO!

  
  Real Blogging — Authority: 424
  I’m often asked what I think about REO business.  Here’s what I think: It beats no business at all… barely.  Now that I have your attention, let me take a minute to explain why. First, for the uninitiated, let me explain the term REO.  REO stands for “Real Estate Owned”.  Talk about dumb names!  I am ...
  1 day ago

• AEI Subprime VI Delta: Complete Annotated Transcript

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  1:11:34 Right or wrong, every time safety and soundness becomes an issue, policy ends up interfering with regulation. - Josh Rosner Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide Housing Doom is pleased to present complete unauthorized annotated transcript VI.D for the American Enterprise Institute’s November ...
  2 days ago

• House of cards: Home prices may be headed back down

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Economy , Wells Fargo & Co. , Real Estate Everyone heaved a sigh of relief as the latest S&P/Case Shiller U.S. National Home Price survey showed a price increase for the fifth straight month. Home prices may finally have hit bottom, but Dean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy is not so ...
  3 days ago

• It’s Time For The Second Part Of The W In The Housing Recession

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  Even after revisions, the assertion is that the U.S. pulled out of recession in the third quarter.  Nouriel Roubini gave this warning last June though: One cannot rule out a couple of quarters of sharp GDP growth as the inventory cycle and the massive policy boost lead to a short-term revival. But those ...
  3 days ago

• S&P/Case-Shiller: September 2009

  
  Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog — Authority: 133
  Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price indices for September 2009 showed a continued, yet considerably weaker, bounce in prices with the Composite-10 index increasing 0.41% on a month-to-month basis. While many of the nation’s housing markets experienced extra-seasonal activity as the ...
  4 days ago

• S&P/Case-Shiller: September 2009

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 171
  Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price indices for September 2009 showed a continued, yet considerably weaker, bounce in prices with the Composite-10 index increasing 0.41% on a month-to-month basis. While many of the nation’s housing markets experienced extra-seasonal activity as the ...
  4 days ago

• S&P/Case-Shiller: September 2009

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 171
  Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller (CSI) home price indices for September 2009 showed a continued, yet considerably weaker, bounce in prices with the Composite-10 index increasing 0.41% on a month-to-month basis. While many of the nation’s housing markets experienced extra-seasonal activity as the ...
  4 days ago

• Todays Housing Bubble Post - It Aint Over

  
  Seeing the Forest — Authority: 411
  Have you noticed signs of "bubble mentality" in the housing market in your area? In my area the bubble is reignited by cheap credit and government subsidies. Just this week a relative told me that "housing prices will come back" because "housing always goes up." People are talking again about "snapping it up" and ...
  4 days ago

• Bubble Meter: Almost one-quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  These so-called underwater mortgages pose a roadblock to a housing recovery because the properties are more likely to fall into bank foreclosure and get dumped into an already saturated market. Economists from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co
  4 days ago

• PIMCOs Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Bill Gross PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firms Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the housing bubble (v1 and/or v2) ...
  5 days ago

• Luster Of First-Time Buyer Credit Is Going To Wear Off

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 579
  Home sales are up this month, but this "good news" is not going to last: Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose in October at a faster-than-expected pace to the highest in more than 2-1/2 years as buyers rushed to take advantage of a popular tax credit, a survey showed Monday. The National Association of ...
  5 days ago

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