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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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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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,...)
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| | Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings March 2010
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| | Production Pullback: Industrial Production February 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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| | [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...)
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| | [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...)
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| | [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...)
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| | [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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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. ...)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | 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...)
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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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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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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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| | 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...)
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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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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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| | Jobs program lost its way - and tax money (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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....)
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| | 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...)
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| | 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...)
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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....)
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| | 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...)
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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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| | 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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| | 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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