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March 11, 2010

    
therealestatebloggers


  Top 10 Cities For Tornado Activity (I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously. So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  CitiGroup Selling Real Estate Division to Apollo (A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property...)

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
seattlebubble


  Foreclosures Dip Slightly in February (Time for our detailed look at foreclosure activity for February in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties. First up, the Notice of Trustee Sale summary: February...)

    
housingdoom


  ?I AM AFRAID? (Hat tip to DollarCollapse for the link to the EconomicRot. . . . . . . embed from "Elizabeth Warren (with Charlie Rose) on Commercial Real...)

    
paper-money


  Constuction Spending: Januray 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...)

    
realty-check


   Why Size Doesn't Matter in the Bathroom Anymore (The American Institute of Architects reports that, "functionality is now preferred to more and larger bathrooms within U.S. homes." Functionality....)

    
condometropolis


  Orlando?s Condo Inventory (Condo Inventory Still Dropping in Orlando While naysayers insist that further house price declines may still be on the horizon, investors in Orlando are voting with their...)

    
condometropolis


  55 West Continues Rental Drive (Here are the latest 55 West apartment / condo offerings downtown Orlando: Gramercy x 2 starting at $1295 - May Soho - $1144 – March Village- $1486 –...)

    
condometropolis


  Reserves vs. Special Assessments (Question: Our state statute states: “Unless otherwise provided in the governing documents, the homeowners association board of directors shall adopt and amend...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Thinking About Short Selling Your House? What No One Will Tell You. (When short selling your house, make sure that you know that it will be hard on your relationship. Short selling your house is very...)

    
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


  Stocks vs. Real Estate: Which is Better? ( That is the title of a CNN Money article that is being discussed over on the BiggerPockets Forums.  You can see that discussion here: Why invest in real...)

    
themortgagereports


  The Official Mortgage Rate Prediction For The Next 7 Days (March 11, 2010) (Purchase activity is up. Talk with your friends in real estate, talk with your friends in mortgage, talk with, really,...)

    
housingwire


  Merrill Lynch Vet Heads to Wells Fargo MBS Team: Report (Broker-dealer Wells Fargo Securities is reportedly adding Kevin Jackson to its mortgage-backed securities (MBS) team. Jackson will join the...)

    
housingwire


  ISGN?s Lee Howlett Looks For Ways Out of the Mortgage Crisis (Lee Howlett is president of ISGN’s servicing practice, where he oversees many of the company?s initiatives, including the new RESET...)

    
housingwire


  HAFA is Buffer Enough Against Short Sale Fraud: Treasury (The US Treasury Department is taking the necessary steps to prevent short sale fraud under the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA)...)

    
housingwire


  Catalyst Resource Exec Joins Cambridge Realty Capital (Hymie Barber joins Chicago-based Cambridge Realty Capital Companies as national originations manager out of its Los Angeles national origination...)

    
housingwire


  Is this the lull before the storm for US mortgages? (What exactly is happening in the bowels of the American mortgage market? That is a question that investors around the world have often asked in the...)

    
housingwire


  San Francisco Four Seasons averts foreclosure (The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco has escaped looming foreclosure as owner Millennium Partners and a new equity partner have paid down a significant...)

    
housingwire


  230 hedge funds launched in Q4 2009 (The perfect storm battering hedge funds, of looming regulation worldwide and political vilification in Europe, has not deterred aspiring managers from launching...)

    
housingwire


  Commercial property funds tipped to provide 25% return over three years (Commercial property could provide investors with a handsome 25% return over three years, it is claimed. According to Scottish...)

    
housingwire


  Desperate condo, homeowner associations thrown a lifeline (Revenue-starved condominium and homeowners associations struggling to keep the taps running and the lawns mowed have found a novel way to...)

    
housingwire


  Potomac Partners sees ?lotta change? in mortgage industry (It was not your typical annual meeting. Before the lights came on in the auditorium of the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus,...)

    
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


  Housing Subsidies, Debt Expansion, and the Death of American Liberty ( Today we examine housing subsidies and how they contribute to the growth of debt and the slow erosion of liberty in...)

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
therealestatebloggers


  Top 10 Cities For Tornado Activity (I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously. So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  CitiGroup Selling Real Estate Division to Apollo (A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property...)

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
bostonbubble


  MA Housing Partnership: Around 64,000 distressed properties could trigger second wave of foreclosures (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Mass. Pike project crashes - Developer leaves mess, quits $800M Columbus Center plan (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Councilman Ross: Boston's high property prices directly caused by college students (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Dean Baker: Recession caused by housing bubble, not by a financial crisis (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Brockton group to pressure Bank of America to address foreclosures (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
burbed


  You must maintain this Redwood City house ( 646 DOUGLAS Ave Redwood City, CA 94063 $260,000 Beds: 3 Baths: 1.5 Sq. Ft.: 1,010 $/Sq. Ft.: $257 Lot Size: 5,000 Sq. Ft....)

    
njrereport


  ?As bad as (we thought) the recession was, the final numbers indicate that it was worse? (From the APP: N.J. job losses hit 228,300; worst since ’90s New Jersey’s economy lost 114,100 jobs...)

    
housingdoom


  WaPo Weighs In On GSE Reform Paralysis (This would make a really great companion piece to the Bill Maloni article we re-posted Wednesday night, but alas we can only give you a taste of this...)

    
paper-money


  Constuction Spending: Januray 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

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Thinking About Short Selling Your House? What No One Will Tell You. (When short selling your house, make sure that you know that it will be hard on your relationship. Short selling your house is very...)

    
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


  You Don?t Need Today?s Idea of a Team To Succeed In a Big Way (Teams have proven themselves a potentially profitable strategy in real estate brokerage, as almost every mid-large company has at least...)

    
housingwire


  Foreclosures Down 2% in February: RealtyTrac (US foreclosure filings in February remained 6% above the level in 2009, despite dropping 2% from January, according to the real estate data provider...)

    
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


March 10, 2010

    
therealestatebloggers


  Top 10 Cities For Tornado Activity (I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously. So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  CitiGroup Selling Real Estate Division to Apollo (A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property...)

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
housingdoom


  Gov?t Backed Giant Zombies Routing Panicked Short Sellers? (Igor is sort of torn between the "markets can stay irrational" meme and the "Treasury keeping Shorty busy so he can't attack...)

    
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...)

    
realty-check


  Mortgage Insurers Won't Pay on Bad Loans (Mortgage insurers are rescinding (denying) claims, claiming themselves that the loans were fraudulent and misrepresented to them....)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Thinking About Short Selling Your House? What No One Will Tell You. (When short selling your house, make sure that you know that it will be hard on your relationship. Short selling your house is very...)

    
360digest


  One more reason to hate real estate agents ( Boing Boing writes of a survey of the 1.9 million accounts on AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for people looking to cheat on their spouses, and come up...)

    
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


  When Your Commercial Loan Comes Due (Commercial real estate analysts have predicted that approximately 1.5 trillion dollars of commercial loans will be maturing between now and 2013. Most of these...)

    
biggerpockets


  Determining Maximum Purchase Price (MPP) ( The question I get most often from new investors looking to break into flipping or wholesaling is, “How do I determine the maximum purchase price I...)

    
housingwire


  First-Time Homebuyers Make Up Half of California Market: CAR (Of all homebuyers in California in 2009, 47% were first-time homebuyers, up from 35.9% in 2008, according to a report from the California...)

    
housingwire


  GMAC Financial Officer to Leave Amid RMBS Servicing Change (GMAC Financial Services announced in a regulatory filing yesterday that chief financial officer (CFO) Robert Hull “elected to...)

    
housingwire


  When it Comes to Mortgage Finance, Who?s in Charge Here? (There is a close-to-truth joke currently circulating around the HousingWire newsroom. Spoiler alert: It’s not funny. OK, stop me if...)

    
housingwire


  Government could cut seconds first (It is one of the big unanswered questions of the housing crisis: Why hasn’t the government pushed harder to include second mortgages in its anti-foreclosure...)

    
housingwire


  Former Rock pitchman launches mortgage company of his own (Best known for years as the pitchman of Rock Financial before a falling-out with his boss, Dan Gilbert, David Hall has launched a mortgage...)

    
housingwire


  AIG ?money in door? deals reap $3.2bn bond gain (American International Group Inc. bondholders reaped at least $3.2bn after the bailed-out company announced deals to sell its two largest non-US life...)

    
housingwire


  Watchdog Sues FHFA Over Fannie and Freddie Records (A watchdog group is fighting a legal battle with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over attempts to secure records of political contributions...)

    
housingwire


  Berkadia mortgage unit in on refinancing of Pennsylvania properties (Berkadia Commercial Mortgage helped refinance Red Lion Plaza in Northeast Philadelphia and lined up funds to refinance the Curtis...)

    
housingwire


  Northern Rock: more than 4% of UK mortgage customers are in arrears (More than 22,500 Northern Rock customers ? over 4% ? have missed monthly mortgage payments, the nationalized mortgage lender...)

    
housingwire


  Short Sale Fraud Fears Grow as HAFA Gets Set to Pop (Lenders are building buffers to protect themselves from an anticipated rise in borrower fraud when the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives...)

    
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


  Top 10 Cities For Tornado Activity (I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously. So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  Top 10 Cities For Tornado Activity (I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously. So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  CitiGroup Selling Real Estate Division to Apollo (A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  CitiGroup Selling Real Estate Division to Apollo (A sign that the big banks are focusing on core fundamentals and not esoteric investments happened today. Citigroup is selling their Citi Property...)

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
bostonbubble


  Lynn council orders derelict homes razed (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Brockton activist takes foreclosure woes to Bernanke (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Even The Rich Can Be Dumb About Money (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Massachusetts Bond Rating Remains Strong (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
seattlebubble


  Declines in King?s Median Price Softened by Sales Shifts (Yesterday in our discussion about the wide variety of median price changes in neighborhoods around King County, a question came up: How can two...)

    
burbed


  Affordable house in Oakland ? just $99,000! ( 2580 38TH Ave Oakland, CA 94601 $99,000 Beds: 3 Baths: 1 Sq. Ft.: 1,200 $/Sq. Ft.: $82 Lot Size: 1,800 Sq. Ft....)

    
njrereport


  Exquisite Handcuffs (From Bloomberg: N.J.?s Christie Says Layoffs Out for Cutting Budget New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he?s unable to lay off or furlough unionized state workers to help...)

    
housingdoom


  Bank of America takes wrong house- and the parrot (Bank of America has done it again.  They have foreclosed on a homeowner that wasn't in default- and this time they kidnapped the parrot: A...)

    
paper-money


  Double-Digit Double-Jeopardy

    
paper-money


  Defense Spending Topping Out?

    
paper-money


  Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? March 10 2010

    
paper-money


  Constuction Spending: Januray 2010

    
piggington


  February 2010 Resale Data Rodeo (The median price per square foot was up about 1% in February, but that's a smaller amount that its January decline.  So I would characterize prices by this...)

    
piggington


  Cheap Home Prices Rebounded, Higher-Priced Homes Slid in December (The Case-Shiller data for December, released last week and covered in detail by Kelly, exhibited the same pattern that we have seen...)

    
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

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  We are #1!! Now please make it stop. (Lots of real estate agents and brokerages make claims to be "NUMBER ONE!" in all sorts of matters. Yet they rarely back those claims with data. And really, does...)

    
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


  AreaAtlantaHomes.Com ? Touring A Newly Hatched Broker Market Domination System (One of my favorite recent projects has been AreaAtlantaHomes.Com. What’s most exciting for me is that the project...)

    
biggerpockets


  Higher Foreclosure Sales Expected By 2012 (It’s always good to have something to look forward to. Well, try this one on for size: J.P. Morgan Chase is reportedly projecting ahead into the not too...)

    
themortgagereports


  Tax Escrow Reserve Chart For Home Purchases In Hamilton, Warren, Butler And Clermont County (Most lenders prefer homeowners to escrow and, as such, they penalize those that choose not to. The fee to...)

    
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


  Sales Volume Limp as Local Inventories Rise ( The precarious balance of supply and demand in our local housing market is sustained at low sales volumes by low inventories. Is the new...)

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
drhousingbubble


  California Doing a Rendition of the Housing Industry on the Budget ? $20 Billion Budget Deficit and Massive Amount of Distress Inventory. How Banks Raided the U.S. Treasury with the aid of the Federal Reserve and have Damaged Housing Further.

    
pacificbeachbubble


  Exactly one year later

    
seattlebubble


  Median Prices Still Crashing in Some Neighborhoods (As we were digging through the February data from the NWMLS, some of us noticed something interesting. While the county-wide median price was...)

    
housingdoom


  Government Intervention In Housing Often A Mistake For Communities And Taxpayers (So what happens when government steps in to revitalize neighborhoods and make more people homeowners? Sometimes...)

    
housingdoom


  Two-Tier Transparency Hits Agency Debt Market (March 9 (Bloomberg) — The Regional Bond Dealers Association asked the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Federal Reserve to end reporting...)

    
housingdoom


  Memo to Barney Frank from a Retired Chief Fannie Mae Lobbyist (Fresh out of the oven … Doom friend (and occasional antagonist) Bill is always worth a look, especially when he speaks to the GSEs...)

    
paper-money


  Constuction Spending: Januray 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...)

    
matrix


  [Manhattan Absorption] Bounty of Sales via Pent-up Demand Release (Absorption defined for the purposes of this chart as: Number of months to sell all listing inventory at the annualized pace of sales...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
truliablog


  Local Ads testimonial - Chris Keller, agent in San Diego, CA (Last week, one of our Trulia team members received a great testimonial from Chris Keller, agent in San Diego, CA. Here are some neat...)

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  We are #1!! Now please make it stop. (Lots of real estate agents and brokerages make claims to be "NUMBER ONE!" in all sorts of matters. Yet they rarely back those claims with data. And really, does...)

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Thinking About Short Selling Your House? What No One Will Tell You. (When short selling your house, make sure that you know that it will be hard on your relationship. Short selling your house is very...)

    
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

    
housingwire


  Lend America, VP Ashley Banned from FHA (Michael Ashley, the embattled former vice president of Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgage originator Lend America, and the company he worked...)

    
housingwire


  FHFA Considers Sliding Scale for Capital Requirements (The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees operations at Government-Sponsored Entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.07 +5.94%) and...)

    
housingwire


  PrinceRidge Holdings to Add ICP Capital Markets Business (New York-based ICP Capital, an independent financial services firm with $11bn of assets under management, agreed this week to transfer its...)

    
housingwire


  Special servicing units look like good buys (It?s no secret that the special servicing business is booming. The amount of CMBS loans in such care?penciling in at $43 billion at the end of January?has...)

    
housingwire


  State Housing Finance Agencies Uneven in Plans to Use $1.5bn Federal Fund (Only two out of the five State Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs), currently crafting proposals to tap the $1.5bn from the...)

    
housingwire


  Chairman selected for chinese drywall insurance program (Insurance disputes continue to mount over who ultimately will pay the cost of any damage or injury from the use of Chinese drywall, according ...)

    
housingwire


  Architect Deal Flow Drops as Homeowners Shun New Builds and Pick-Up DIY Projects (As a perceived market recovery remains fragile and open to another dip, especially if the homebuyer tax credit is not...)

    
housingwire


  Fifth Third plans mortgage push in Tennessee (Fifth Third Bank is planning an expansion of lending services as it brings in a new executive to lead its mortgage division in Tennessee. Geoff Hill has...)

    
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