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February 08, 2010

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Phoenix Historic Homes: Upcoming Tours / Open houses (Two Phoenix historic home districts are having tours this month. Visit the Willo historic district or the Brentwood (Coronado) historic district....)

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
bloodhoundrealty


  Agents of Change (Don Stewart posed an interesting question this morning about whether real estate is changing top-down from the broker or bottoms-up from the agent. In a post about how Redfin sees the...)

    
biggerpockets


  Improve Your Productivity: 4 Great Ways to Clone Yourself While Real Estate Investing ( Congratulations!  You are pursuing a career in the lucrative world of real estate investing.  The sky?s the...)

    
housingwire


  California $1M-Plus Home Sales Drop 24%: DataQuick (Million-dollar home sales continue to decline in California, as price declines are bringing homes below the $1m threshold and hesitant buyers have...)

    
housingwire


  Making Sense of the Jobs Picture? (Good Luck.) (I?m going to spend today focusing in on one of the most classic drivers of residential mortgage defaults: job loss. It?s clearly an issue for most of us...)

    
housingwire


  Moody?s Says GMAC May Cover ResCap?s $2Bn Debt (Analysts at Moody?s Investors Service project GMAC Financial Services (GOM: 19.67 +0.17%) will inevitably cover the repayment of $2bn in long-term debt...)

    
housingwire


  Fed?s Bullard: Housing should be key in reform (The Obama administration and U.S. lawmakers are missing an opportunity to revamp the U.S. housing finance system, which should be central to regulatory...)

    
housingwire


  Canada January Housing Starts Rise to 15-Month High (Canadian housing starts rose to a 15- month high in January, exceeding economists? forecasts, led by British Columbia, government figures...)

    
housingwire


  Fed to Bare Tightening Plan (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will begin this week to lay out a blueprint for a credit tightening, to be followed once the Fed decides the economy has recovered...)

    
housingwire


  UK plans to tax banks for bail-outs gain ground with G7 finance ministers (The finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven rich nations said that, if workable, such a levy should be...)

    
housingwire


  Did The Obama Administration Do ANY Homework Before Announcing The Volcker Rule? (Senator Chris Dodd is right to wonder, as he said yesterday, why the Obama administration waited so long to support...)

    
housingwire


  Seeking a Safer Way to Securitization (Can the world be made safe for the return of securitizations? That is a question of great importance to those like John C. Dugan, the comptroller of the...)

    
housingwire


  Bank Failures In 2010 May Hit 200, Up More Than 40% (The FDIC was probably wise to get its member banks to prepay their fees for 2010, 2011, and 2012. The agency brought in $45 billion by the action,...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
bostonbubble


  Prof. Case: Reflections on the Housing Market (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
seattlebubble


  Housing ATM: We Have a Winner (I was digging around in the Snohomish County public records and I came across this interesting property history. Original purchase price is unknown, but records indicate...)

    
burbed


  Affordable house in good condition in Mountain View ( 2175 STANFORD Ave Mountain View, CA 94040 $665,000 Beds: 2 Baths: 2 Sq. Ft.: 900 $/Sq. Ft.: $739 Lot Size: 5,460 Sq. Ft....)

    
njrereport


  Defining Deal Collapses, Tischman/Blackrock Walk Away (From the WSJ: Tishman Venture Abandons Stuyvesant A group led by Tishman Speyer Properties has decided to give up the sprawling Peter Cooper...)

    
housingdoom


  ?Well unrelease it,? Togneri said: Strange Gyres in Paradis as Canada Nearly Transparent (The document was an annual report on [minister Christian Paradis'] Public Works' massive real-estate...)

    
housingdoom


  Is the NY Fed a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone? (… Historically, the New York Fed has been among the most profitable shareholder-owned corporations in the world. Yet it keeps the details of its...)

    
paper-money


  Liquidate, Liquidate, Liquidate!

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
weblog-housing


  Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times: ?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
biggerpockets


  Fed Leaving Door Open to Extend Mortgage Backed Security Purchases (I?ve been curious lately about the end of the Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) purchases by the Federal Reserve in March.  The Fed is...)

    
biggerpockets


  Those Greedy SOBs! ( When you?re driving on the highway, have you ever noticed that anyone who drives slower than you is a moron and those who drive faster are maniacs? It?s human nature to think that...)

    
themortgagereports


  You Can?t Get Your Mortgage News From A Newspaper. And Here?s The Proof. (There's a reason why everyone from first-time home buyers to bona fide investors hate the mortgage process -- the media tells...)

    
housingwire


  HAMP Permanent Modifications Picking Up: BarCap (Modification rates picked up over December and January as servicers converted more trials into permanent modifications under the Home Affordable...)

    
housingwire


  Monday Morning Cup of Coffee (A look at stories across HousingWire?s weekend desk?with more coverage to come on bigger issues: The United States cannot afford the indefinite de facto nationalization of...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
irvinehousingblog


  TARP Fails and Trustee Speaks the Truth ( Occasionally people in Government tell the truth. Usually this is a gaffe, but the Trustee in charge of the TARP program has written a well-researched and...)

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
njrereport


  Comments on a Puff Piece (The article isn’t important, but the comments are, especially when they are from a mainstream NJ news paper. From the Star Ledger: Aging Baby Boomers changing real...)

    
njrereport


  Defining Deal Collapses, Tischman/Blackrock Walk Away (From the WSJ: Tishman Venture Abandons Stuyvesant A group led by Tishman Speyer Properties has decided to give up the sprawling Peter Cooper...)

    
housingdoom


  Crack of Doom: First in War, First in Peace & Durn?d Near First in the Alphabet (WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Sunday that the U.S. wasn't in danger of losing its...)

    
housingdoom


  Geithner?s ?Mortgage Mods A Success? Claim Is Ludicrous (How in the world can Timothy Geithner make these claims with a straight face? In an interview yesterday with Jake Tapper, Geithner was reminded...)

    
housingdoom


  Is the NY Fed a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone? (… Historically, the New York Fed has been among the most profitable shareholder-owned corporations in the world. Yet it keeps the details of its...)

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
weblog-housing


  Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times: ?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown


February 07, 2010

    
drhousingbubble


  Where the Housing Bubble Still Lives ? 263 Zip Code Analysis for Los Angeles County. 28 Percent Increase in L.A. CPI from 2001 to 2009 but County Home Prices still up by 70 Percent.

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
njrereport


  Defining Deal Collapses, Tischman/Blackrock Walk Away (From the WSJ: Tishman Venture Abandons Stuyvesant A group led by Tishman Speyer Properties has decided to give up the sprawling Peter Cooper...)

    
housingdoom


  The Anti-Summit: Baffin Island was the Diversion (Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities, including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank, landed in Sydney...)

    
housingdoom


  Is the NY Fed a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone? (… Historically, the New York Fed has been among the most profitable shareholder-owned corporations in the world. Yet it keeps the details of its...)

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
weblog-housing


  Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times: ?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
biggerpockets


  How to Handle a Landlord with Multiple Properties for Sale ( I love landlords. I get the majority of my deals from landlords who are sick of dealing with tenant hassles. The biggest payoff comes when...)

    
housingwire


  Swaths of Middle TN feel mortgage stress (Losing two jobs in the last two years has made paying even a modest mortgage nearly impossible for Yolanda Tucker, who has two children at home, a 12-year-old...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
therealestatebloggers


  Indiana University Basketball Announcer Todd Leary Arrested on Real Estate Fraud (As the real estate markets falter, the scams that came out of the boom are coming to light and are catching some people...)

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
seattlebubble


  Poll: Which type of area would you live in if home prices were not a factor? (Please vote in this poll using the sidebar.This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through...)

    
burbed


  How much would you pay to talk to the superintendent? (Should Money Buy You Privileged Access to a Public School System? Schoolhouse In Palo Alto it does. Give Palo Alto Partners in Education —...)

    
njrereport


  Defining Deal Collapses, Tischman/Blackrock Walk Away (From the WSJ: Tishman Venture Abandons Stuyvesant A group led by Tishman Speyer Properties has decided to give up the sprawling Peter Cooper...)

    
housingdoom


  Is the NY Fed a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone? (… Historically, the New York Fed has been among the most profitable shareholder-owned corporations in the world. Yet it keeps the details of its...)

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
weblog-housing


  Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times: ?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
biggerpockets


  Superbowl Commercials 2010 | Why You Should Take Notes ( Superbowl Commercials are the probably the most watched commercials year round. Superbowl Sunday is the day people can’t help be excited...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
irvinehousingblog


  Fundamental Valuation of Houses - Part 2 ( Investment Value The United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics measures the Rent of primary residence (rent) and...)

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
njrereport


  Repeat buyer credit - Causing Trade-up or Trade-down sales? (From the Philly Inquirer: Homebuyers rushing to get tax credit before it’s gone Liv Mansfield is racing the clock, hoping to find and...)

    
njrereport


  Defining Deal Collapses, Tischman/Blackrock Walk Away (From the WSJ: Tishman Venture Abandons Stuyvesant A group led by Tishman Speyer Properties has decided to give up the sprawling Peter Cooper...)

    
housingdoom


  Mortgage Bankers Association Upside Down, Sells Headquarters (Oh the irony.  The Mortgage Bankers Association just unloaded their headquarters- and boy were they upside down: Like millions of...)

    
housingdoom


  Is the NY Fed a Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone? (… Historically, the New York Fed has been among the most profitable shareholder-owned corporations in the world. Yet it keeps the details of its...)

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
weblog-housing


  Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times: ?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
pressreal


  Yummy Monster Munchies (It’s that frightful holiday of the year has come around. It?s time to choose on your macabre appetizers. Check out these creative Halloween recipes to help you get...)

    
altosresearch


  Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect

    
bloodhoundrealty


  Can?t Find A Nut? Search In A Nut House (Mortgage squirrels, searching for some nuts, during what I believe could be a long winter, might consider this idea: There should be a lot of listings hitting...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for February 2007 (     The report from the Census comes out today at 10am                 ...)

    
housing


  Construction Spending for January 2007 (     Report comes out this morning at 10am                  Full article...)

    
housingpanic


  Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"

    
housingpanic


  LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight

    
njhousingbubble


  CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?

    
njhousingbubble


  Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).

    
bubbleinfo


  Trustee Sale - Case Study

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown