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Americans are staying put more then ever, but when they do move many of them do so for housing-related reasons, say, to buy a new home or find a better neighborhood. And, if previous migration patterns are any indication, those trends could bode wel read more
post/cd355097e7f15b67a4bd3f4348ee54ea" target="_blank"Fictitious Spanish Property Prices
Download the latest Kyero.com Spanish House Price Index. Updated with the latest analysis of average asking prices for Q4 2008, it shows Spanish house price trends from mid 2007. Comparing the average asking prices of Q4 2007 and Q4 2008, many ve read more
post/216b80cd64c9819e711db2a2b31cbb31" target="_blank"Amateur economists could learn something from a real economist ..
and one who correctly identified both the tech bubble and the housing bubble too. Here is a paper from Robert Shiller which was written in 2007 and is entitled "Understanding Recent Trends in House Prices and Home Ownership." He has no crystal ball, read more
post/7315c0b55c6515add4218a2c52e29b92" target="_blank"World's newest and biggest 'black market'
Spread betting was outlawed in 1929, until 1982...Derivatives bubble explodes five times bigger in five yearsWall Street didn't listen to Buffett. Derivatives grew into a massive bubble, from about $100 trillion to $516 trillion by 2007. The new deri read more
post/910f76d97b6a47f9a512848923a7769b" target="_blank"Foreclosure Data Part III
One more update, from the NNIP listserve:Last week, we released a report on how the tightening credit market has affected homebuyers in New York City and the country as a whole. Declining Credit & Growing Disparities: Key Findings from HMDA 2007 read more
post/03fd5b9c980f2a4b874b47d94d52fed6" target="_blank"Princeton New Jersey Real Estate Housing Market Report - Third Qu…
This Princeton real estate housing market report may be the only report with some good news amid the financial crisis engulfing the country. The positive news is the 8% increase in the median house price and the 6% increase in the average home read more
post/ce88f1055ca7298683c9a009f3e0c230" target="_blank"Princeton Real Estate Housing Market Report -3d Quarter 2008
This Princeton real estate housing market report may be the only report with some good news amid the financial crisis engulfing the country. The positive news is the 8% increase in the median house price and the 6% increase in the average home read more
post/447abe12b4d76e10491eb29b1e9a6e11" target="_blank"New Home Sales Up; New Home Sales Down: A Real Estate Economy In…
35.3 percent. By any measure, a staggering number. It is by how much new home sales have dropped from July 2007. But we are in one of those wierd times when figures seemingly contradict one another and “trends” are hard to keep up with. F read more
post/6218d78907b01675e0a5e1d5efe35df2" target="_blank"finance: Second mortgages to finance home renovations.
Some second mortgages are allowing Canadians to realize their aspirations of home renovation. The Canadian owners have accumulated equity in their homes as housing prices have increased year after year in what was until recently the hottest housing m read more
post/878db70d1fe5b2207fe6033b190a84b5" target="_blank"Greater Phoenix Housing Market For July 2008 | Home Sales News
Homes Sales, Median Price and Commentary on the Current Phoenix Real Estate MarketGreater Phoenix homes sales in July are a mix of emotions. On the one hand there is joy over the large number of sales but only until you look at the median price read more
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