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March 16, 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


  Sidebar Users & Data Miners: We Few, We Happy Few (Here's a bit of self-serving MSM pabulum to start you on your day. . . . . . . NYT: "Most Online News Readers Use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study...)

    
housingdoom


  Las Vegas Homes Renting In Record Numbers (It has been awhile since we've dug into the Las Vegas home sale numbers.  Of note this month is that the most interesting number is not a sale...)

    
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


  [HVCC and AMCs Violate RESPA?] Here?s a possible solution ( I was provided an interesting solution to the AMC appraisal issue from Tony Pistilli, a certified residential appraiser who has been...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Phoenix home buyers, are you being realistic? (Are you a realistic home buyer? Is what you want in a home or a location even possible? There is some hard data to go on, other times you need to {gasp!}...)

    
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

    
themortgagereports


  Correlating Mortgage Rates To The Fed Funds Rate (The Federal Reserve doesn't set mortgage rates. Mortgage markets...)

    
housingwire


  LPS Expands Services, Launches New Short Sale Platform (As 2010 gears up to be the ‘year of the short sale,’ Jacksonville-based Lender Processing Services (LPS: 40.22 -0.94%) said Tuesday...)

    
housingwire


  Former Bank President Becomes First Charged with TARP Fraud (Just days after the New York State Banking Department (NYSBD) closed The Park Avenue Bank, the failed bank?s former president was arrested,...)

    
housingwire


  Equator Oversees 125,000 Automated Short Sales in Four Months (In a report that may be considered numerical ammunition to the argument that short sales are heating up faster than modifications,...)

    
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 15, 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


  Buyers Getting More House for Their Money Even as Median Prices Rise (In our conversation last week about median prices, David Losh brought up an interesting question: It would be interesting to see...)

    
housingdoom


  Jesse: US Preparations Against Iran? (This is one heck of a way to encourage flight-to-safety buys of Treasury Debt From the first abuses of QSPEs to the latest headlines about 105 repo, the whole...)

    
housingdoom


  Beware Of Bobcat Living In Property (I  remember a few years back poking around some half-finished homes where the builder had gone into bankruptcy.  The homes were located in Queen Creek,...)

    
paper-money


  Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings March 2010

    
paper-money


  Production Pullback: Industrial Production February 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


  [Idiotic Mortgage Lending System] How to not get scr*w*d by an (AMC) appraiser ( Here’s the result of an email interview I conducted with Brick Underground expressing my dissatisfaction with...)

    
matrix


  [Three Cents Worth #143] Examining Manhattan?s Real Estate Agent Oversupply ( It’s time to share my Three Cents Worth on Curbed, at the intersection of neighborhood and real estate. Three...)

    
matrix


  [Public Speaking] New York Law School March 17, 2010 (Wednesday Morning March 17, 2010 8:15am breakfast forum: The Future of Residential Real Estate in NYC [click to expand] Future speaking...)

    
matrix


  [Power Mailbox] Live Power Lines, Still No Power ( The Northeastern US was hammered by a weather system that brought heavy rain and powerful winds – clocked at 70+ mph. 450,000 people in the...)

    
realty-check


  Loans Going Bad Faster Than the Fixes (The good news is the pace of loan deterioration is slowing. The bad news is we are still seeing record high delinquencies, and new delinquencies are outpacing...)

    
condometropolis


  Vue Condos, Downtown Orlando, Sell At Auction (The much anticipated auction at the The Vue at Lake Eola condominium tower finally took place this morning, ending with final bid of nearly $26 million. ...)

    
ocpredicts


  90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class

    
ocpredicts


  Bernanke Bearish on Economy

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  Homeowners? Survival Event ? Phoenix homeowners in trouble ? read this! (Are you a Phoenix homeowner facing foreclosure or a short sale? Maybe you are looking at an increase in your adjustable rate...)

    
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


  Unchained Melody Redux: Two Songs (Proving that happiness is not what happens to you…heard this (famous song): “Got no money in my pockets…had a job and I lost it…but it...)

    
biggerpockets


  When the Fed Stops Buying MBS, How Will Rates Be Affected? ( The Federal Reserve?s purchase of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) is scheduled to end on March 31st.  A few weeks ago I wrote that there...)

    
biggerpockets


  A Changing Trend in the Foreclosure Capital? ( Southern Nevada has been ground-zero of the foreclosure crisis for a long, long time. Home sales have actually been very strong for months but the...)

    
housingwire


  NAR Defends Broker Price Opinions for HAFA Valuations (The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is contesting claims, made by the Appraisal Institute last week, against the use of broker price...)

    
housingwire


  Break in Case of Bankruptcy: GMAC Splits Mortgage Account (GMAC Mortgage (GMACM) is going forward with plans to separate its mortgage-collections master account, in hopes that it may resolve some of...)

    
housingwire


  When taking on more bad loans seems a good idea (With delinquencies rising on Federal Housing Administration-insured loans, banks are expected to repurchase billions of dollars of such loans this year...)

    
housingwire


  Dodd Unveils Consumer Financial Protection Bill (Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, unveiled details of a new bill to Congress today that would establish the...)

    
housingwire


  Housing Recovery is Spelled R-E-O (Short sales are a hot topic right now?especially with a much-ballyhooed government program focused on short sales, the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives...)

    
housingwire


  Zillow Partners with John L. Scott Real Estate for Online Listings ([Update 1: clarifies asset status] Even with the recent report that its appraisal valuation models (AVMs) are perhaps no better than...)

    
housingwire


  The problem of reverse moral hazard from government inaction (Comments to a recent article brought to mind an underlying conflict among many about how to view a recession or depression. One view is to...)

    
housingwire


  Bernanke may get help planning exit with Fed board selections (President Barack Obama?s likely nomination of three Federal Reserve governors will help Chairman Ben S. Bernanke plan an exit from record...)

    
housingwire


  Blogger suggests it?s time to end FASB (and shake up the SEC) (Recent “revelations” concerning the Lehman debacle highlighted a very important point: media and regulators alike have had...)

    
housingwire


  Salvation Army is a residential real estate powerhouse (By day, Henry Graciani oversees a 54-bed treatment center for alcoholics and drug addicts who come to him broke and hopeless. After work, he...)

    
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


  Reconveyance Fee Rights: Long-Term Equity Theft by Real Estate Developers ( Developers are embracing a new reconveyance fee designed to strip sellers of their equity for the next 100...)

    
thisoldhouseflip


  REDC Breakdown

    
therealestatebloggers


  Rental Scams on Craigslist ? Landlords Beware (If you thought the scams being run on Craigslist were just on ripping off prospective tenants as we talked about before here, you are missing the other...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  Spring Real Estate Talking Points ? An Article Full of Positives (You and I both know that this site has taken a tough look at the real estate market. I think it has been objective, but I am sure that...)

    
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


  Jobs program lost its way - and tax money (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
burbed


  Great deal, great dutch angle, all in Hayward ( 261 LAUREL Ave Hayward, CA 94541 $350,000 Beds: 4 Baths: 3 Sq. Ft.: 2,161 $/Sq. Ft.: $162 Lot Size: 0.47 Acres Property...)

    
burbed


  If you like sewage, you?ll like this San Mateo house ( 1647 OVERLAND Dr San Mateo, CA 94403 $900,000 Beds: 4 Baths: 2.5 Sq. Ft.: 2,480 $/Sq. Ft.: $363 Lot Size: 8,362 Sq. Ft....)

    
njrereport


  Controlling Out Of Countrol Property Taxes (From the Philly Inquirer: Christie to propose cap on property-tax hikes Gov. Christie will propose a constitutional amendment to cap property-tax increases...)

    
housingdoom


  Crack of Doom: If We?re So Smart ? (The clear and present danger posed by this deranged edifice built on the unstable foundation of subprime mortgages was not foreseen by the chief executives of...)

    
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


  Unchained melody: Rebels by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (I’m sure I wouldn’t like this guy in real life — he drinks like a fish and his relationship with his wife is hellacious....)

    
themortgagereports


  February 2010 : 4 States Account For More Than 50% Of Foreclosure Activity (Foreclosure-related filings topped 300,000 last month, according to foreclosure-tracking firm RealtyTrac. Nationwide, 1 in...)

    
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


  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

    
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...)