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| | Boston Fed chief: Wall Street underestimated subprime risks (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Phoenix: April Home Sales Up But Median Down 21% (Yesterday Jay Butler released his monthly home sales report for the Phoenix area:
MESA, Ariz. — For the first time since July 2005, the local...)
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| | Realtor?s New Reality: Existing Home Sales Q1 2008 (Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their existing home sales report for the first quarter of 2008 showing, in truly stark...)
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| | Just wondering.. Does anyone seriously believe the hilarious US government inflation report out today - which showed nearly 0% inflation? (I do believe the US government has lost all credibility as of...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | [Spring Fishing] Getting To The Bottom Of It All (Spring brings optimism to our economic senses, and that’s probably a good thing. Pessimism as it relates to the housing market usually becomes a...)
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| | Ranked 87th, I?ll Take It (The New York Observer, with it’s new ownership, has devoted the back portion of its publication to real estate coverage which has a lot of good stuff and has garnered a...)
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| | Home Foreclosures: Crisis Is Only Getting Deeper (Posted By:Diana OlickIt?s another record in the real estate market, and it?s not a good one. RealtyTrac, the online foreclosure sale site, which has...)
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| | The shareholders begin to pay (Its the fashionable thing - a rights issue.After weeks of denial, Bradford and Bingley finally admitted that they needed more money to shore up their battered balance...)
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| | Mortgage approvals take a dive ( Yesterday, the Council of Mortgage Lenders published data on the number of new mortgages. However, the bad news from the banks was buried beneath yesterday's terrible...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes (Developer foreclosures - Bakersfield Californian:$74 million loan to Irvine-based developer SunCal Cos. for a major housing project in Shafter...)
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| | Success is Knowing Who Your Friend Is (Back on Monday, Jeff Brown wrote a post explaining in no uncertain terms why some real estate agents are failing. If you have not read that post yet you need to...)
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| | The Housing Crisis: How Low Can It Get? Pretty Low! (I’d like to say that this is as bad as it gets. I’d like to say it, but I don’t think that is true.
In California alone, just...)
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| | Title Insurance: The Basics (
I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with...)
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| | Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village (Not too long ago I went to a neighboring town to check out an investment possibility for an investor I work with - rental subdivisions. The owner had built...)
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| | Foreclosures Rise 65 Percent in April (Foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — were reported on 243,353 properties in April, a 4 percent...)
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| | For IndyMac, Another Ratings Cut; Capital Raise Looming? (Fitch Ratings cut its core credit ratings on IndyMac Bancorp Inc. (IMB: 2.08, -10.34%) for the second time this year late Tuesday, moving the...)
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| | Impac Delays Q1 Earnings; Expects Loss (Troubled lender Impac Mortgage Holdings, Inc. (IMH: 1.30, +0.78%) said late Tuesday that it won’t file its first quarter earnings report until June at the...)
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| | Subprime Mortgage Losses Nearly Done: Fitch (The subprime mortgage mess is mostly over, as global banks have already written down more than 80 percent of their losses from subprime mortgages and...)
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| | California Foreclosure Sales Up 44 Percent in April (For the first time in California’s history, foreclosure sales exceeded 1,000 properties per day in April, according to a report released...)
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| | Freddie Posts $151 Million Loss in First Quarter, Better than Expected (Freddie Mac (FRE: 27.27, +9.25%) said Wednesday that it lost $151 million, or $.66/share during the first quarter of 2008 as it...)
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| | ?Enormous Losses? Loom, Carlyle?s Rubenstien Says (The financial impact of the mortgage and credit crisis is far from over, according to the chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s...)
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| | BofA Sees Higher Losses on Home Equity Loans: Report (Bank of America Corp. (BAC: 36.67, +0.16%) said Tuesday that it now expects losses on home equity loans to reach above estimates offered last month...)
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| | Senate Panel Schedules Vote on Housing Bill; Passage Seen as Unlikely (Efforts by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) to gain bipartisan acceptance for a sweeping housing proposal...)
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| | HousingPANIC Shocking Admission of the Century (Q: Mr. President, for the record, is global warming real?A: Bush: Yes, it is real, sure is.(Next he and the ignorant crowd will come around on evolution,...)
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| | Homeowners Laugh Tonight Only To Cry Tomorrow (A report from the Columbia Missourian. “Boone County witnessed its first spike of foreclosures in 2003, when the number rose from 99 the previous...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | The Price of Being Wrong (
Nantucket Sleighride -- Mountain
Don't cry little Robin-Marie 'cause you know you're losing your home...
It always makes me sad when I see...)
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| | Failure and Success - Michael Jordon Commercial (This advertisement from Nike is so dead on. For agents and non agents, to be the best you have to be willing to fail publicly. As Michael Jordon said,...)
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| | Top 10 Worst Metro Areas For Foreclosures, 1st Quarter, 2008 (The carnage is running rampant in California these days in the housing market as in some communities there seems to be a home on every...)
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| | There are some incredible buys out there for first-time home buyers? (“There are some incredible buys out there for first-time home buyers.”
When you start seeing quotes like the one in the...)
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| | Boston area auction by Calif. firm (REDC) hits snag again - Bidder says foreclosure was incomplete for home on the block (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Feds laud Hub efforts - Menino's foreclosure crisis efforts called "very effective" (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | CELEBRITY FAME! This house in Redwood City could make you a millionaire! (477 Topaz St, Redwood City
$585,000
* Status: Active
* Bedroom: 2
* Bathroom: 1
* Year Built: 1952
* Lot Size: 2625
* Square...)
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| | Will stock options save the Bay Area? (A guide to the different parts of the Bay Area [Burbed.com]
Name Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Burbed (and others waiting for a housing price ?correction?),
I...)
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| | Foreclosures up 65% in April (From Bloomberg:
U.S. Foreclosures Rise 65 Percent as Vacated Homes Add to Glut
U.S. foreclosure filings climbed 65 percent and bank seizures more than doubled in April...)
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| | NJ home prices rise and fall (From the Asbury Park Press:
Sale prices of homes stabilizing at Shore
Home prices in the area that includes Monmouth and Ocean counties were essentially flat in the first...)
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| | Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? May 14 2008 (The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes (Developer foreclosures - Bakersfield Californian:$74 million loan to Irvine-based developer SunCal Cos. for a major housing project in Shafter...)
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| | Title Insurance: The Basics (
I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with...)
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| | Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village (Not too long ago I went to a neighboring town to check out an investment possibility for an investor I work with - rental subdivisions. The owner had built...)
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| | BofA Sees Higher Losses on Home Equity Loans: Report (Bank of America Corp. (BAC: 36.61, -2.22%) said Tuesday that it now expects losses on home equity loans to reach above estimates offered last month...)
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| | Senate Panel Schedules Vote on Housing Bill; Passage Seen as Unlikely (Efforts by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) to gain bipartisan acceptance for a sweeping housing proposal...)
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| | Housing Markets Take Turn for the Worse in First Quarter (Despite realtors’ best efforts to paint the national housing picture as mixed — or even to explain away its own data — the...)
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| | Dimon: Crunch May Be Over, But Recession Looms (While the effects of a mortgage-led credit crisis may be waning, the long-terms effects of a U.S. recession are just beginning, according to remarks...)
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| | Williams & Williams CEO Plans National Auction, Sees Room for Growth (Williams & Williams, one of the larger auctioneers in the foreclosed real estate space, said Tuesday morning that it will...)
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| | Triad Posts $150 Million Q1 Loss (Triad Guaranty Inc. (TGIC: 2.21, -2.64%) said late Monday it swung to a huge first-quarter loss of $150 million, or a $10.09/share loss, from net income of $17.3...)
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| | Bits Bucket And Craigslist Finds For May 14, 2008 (Please post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes (Developer foreclosures - Bakersfield Californian:$74 million loan to Irvine-based developer SunCal Cos. for a major housing project in Shafter...)
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| | Title Insurance: The Basics (
I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with...)
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| | Marketing Is Religion ("He's Catholic but he's awfully nice" was a comment you might have heard, in the 50's. Now, I picked Catholicism but I could have picked Judaism, Evangelical Christianity,...)
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| | To Z or Not To Z? (
That is the question.
Whether ?tis noble in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by not opposing them? ...)
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| | Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village (Not too long ago I went to a neighboring town to check out an investment possibility for an investor I work with - rental subdivisions. The owner had built...)
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| | Republican Senators Question Fannie Mae?s Capital Position (In a letter sent Monday to Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight director James Lockhart and obtained by Housing Wire, four key...)
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| | BofA Sees Higher Losses on Home Equity Loans: Report (Bank of America Corp. (BAC: 36.61, -2.22%) said Tuesday that it now expects losses on home equity loans to reach above estimates offered last month...)
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| | Senate Panel Schedules Vote on Housing Bill; Passage Seen as Unlikely (Efforts by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) to gain bipartisan acceptance for a sweeping housing proposal...)
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| | Housing Markets Take Turn for the Worse in First Quarter (Despite realtors’ best efforts to paint the national housing picture as mixed — or even to explain away its own data — the...)
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| | Dimon: Crunch May Be Over, But Recession Looms (While the effects of a mortgage-led credit crisis may be waning, the long-terms effects of a U.S. recession are just beginning, according to remarks...)
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| | Williams & Williams CEO Plans National Auction, Sees Room for Growth (Williams & Williams, one of the larger auctioneers in the foreclosed real estate space, said Tuesday morning that it will...)
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| | Triad Posts $150 Million Q1 Loss (Triad Guaranty Inc. (TGIC: 2.21, -2.64%) said late Monday it swung to a huge first-quarter loss of $150 million, or a $10.09/share loss, from net income of $17.3...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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