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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Exactly one year later
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| | 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...)
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| | Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? February 03 2010
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | 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...)
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| | 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....)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Construction Spending for February 2007 ( The report from the Census comes out today at 10am ...)
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| | Construction Spending for January 2007 ( Report comes out this morning at 10am Full article...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).
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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Exactly one year later
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| | Lynn council orders derelict homes razed (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Brockton activist takes foreclosure woes to Bernanke (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Even The Rich Can Be Dumb About Money (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Massachusetts Bond Rating Remains Strong (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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....)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Double-Digit Double-Jeopardy
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| | Defense Spending Topping Out?
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| | Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey ? March 10 2010
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| | Constuction Spending: Januray 2010
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | 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...)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Construction Spending for February 2007 ( The report from the Census comes out today at 10am ...)
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| | Construction Spending for January 2007 ( Report comes out this morning at 10am Full article...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).
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| | 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...)
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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | 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.
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| | Exactly one year later
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Constuction Spending: Januray 2010
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | 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...)
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| | [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...)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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 ...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | Construction Spending for February 2007 ( The report from the Census comes out today at 10am ...)
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| | Construction Spending for January 2007 ( Report comes out this morning at 10am Full article...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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