Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Chanos Could Lose Big On China Real Estate Bubble Bets / Housing-Market / China
By: Dian_L_Chu
Amid growing fears of a real estate bubble, Chinese officials moved to restrain bank lending and rein in inflation by raising its bank reserve requirements twice in one month. Global financial markets reacted with risk aversion driving up both the U.S. dollar and Treasuries because of concerns that the leading recovery growth engine of the world could be slowing.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Are Lumber Prices Signaling a Rebound in U.S. House Prices? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Source:Crude oil, gold, steel and commodity stocks have all taken it on the chin to varying degrees so far this year.
But not every commodity has suffered this same tough fate. In fact, there's even been a major standout. It's a commodity that most investors rarely think about.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
An Insiders View of the U.S. Real Estate Train Wreck / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: David_Galland
The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. And there was no one in the nation I wanted more than Andy to address the critical topic of real estate.
My interest in Andy was due to the fact that he has been singularly successful in pretty much all aspects of the real estate market, including financing and developing large projects - such as shopping centers, apartment communities, office buildings, and warehouses - from one end of the country to the other. His expertise has also allowed him to build an impressive business providing assistance to large financial institutions that need help in dealing with problem commercial real estate loans. As you might suspect, business is booming.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
How to Make Money From South Florida Real Estate / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Ah... 70 degree weather, with toes in the sand...
While the East Coast was hit with a record snowstorm over the weekend, my wife and I spent a few days away from it all in Palm Beach, Florida.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Australian Housing Bubble About to Burst, Market About to Crash / Housing-Market / Austrailia
By: Mike_Shedlock
Today the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) unexpectedly held interest rates at 3.75%. No doubt this was in fear of the Australia's enormous housing bubble that exceeds the height of the bubble that long ago burst in the US. 20 economists predicted the RBA would hike. Not a single one predicted anything else.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Insider's View of the U.S. Real Estate Train Wreck Crash / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: David_Galland
The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we're very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in the nation I wanted more than Andy to address the critical topic of real estate.
Monday, January 25, 2010
How To Stop U.S. Housing Market Foreclosures / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Danny_Schechter
It is Time For A Moratorum and Debt Relief as Government Aid Fails To Reach Those In Need, Here as in Haiti?
Stung by the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts and the abandonment of his health care initiative by members of Congress, and fearful of a political backlash President Obama may himself not be “too big to fail.” He has now “pivoted,” to use a favorite phase from the pundits, and shifted his focus to trying to fix a still deteriorating economy.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Ignore the Crowd … It’s Time to Invest in Commercial Real Estate 2010 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Of all the independent institutional research that I receive, some of my favorite comes from Justin Mamis, a veteran of all the financial wars we've seen over the past five decades.
Friday, January 08, 2010
The Big Picture for U.S. Housing Market 2010 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Graham_Summers
The typical essay I write on these pages is 700-1,500 words or so. Today’s essay will be setting an all time record for Gains, Pains, & Capital because my first 1,000 words are the following:
Thursday, January 07, 2010
US Home Sales Plummet, Personal Bankruptcies Soar / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Global_Research
Tom Eley writes: An important measure of future home sales fell far more sharply in November than economists had expected. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) index on pending home sales—contracts agreed upon but not finalized—dropped by 16 percent in November, more than three times what economists interviewed by the Dow Jones Newswires had anticipated.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Bernanke Says "Easy Money did not Cause the Housing Bubble" / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Whitney
In an effort to defend himself against his critics, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke spent over 2 hours at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta trying to prove that low interest rates were not the main cause of the housing bubble. Here's an excerpt from Bernanke's speech:
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
UK Mortgage SVR Interest Rate Increases Gather Pace / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
Since April 2009 the Bank of England has kept base rate on hold at 0.50%, but since that time eight mortgage providers have increased their standard variable rate (SVR).
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Why Adding Bureaucracy Won't Halt the Housing Market Blues / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's latest thesis is that the home mortgage bubble had little to do with record low interest rates, and was actually much more a problem of regulation.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
China Property Bubble May Lead to US Style Real Estate Crash / Housing-Market / China Economy
By: Trader_Mark
First, let me say that the term "bubble" could be the most overused term of 2009. We now are calling anything excessive a bubble; it's become stale. Of course some things are developing bubbles, but not every asset class as some would have you believe. Second, much of what I am reading about China today reminds me of the things I was reading in the US in 2005-2006. With the caveat that knowing what information to believe out of China, and how accurate it all is - is many times harder.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Telegraph Forecasts 10% Drop for UK House Prices 2010, Wrong Again? / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Telegraph is forecasting or rather regurgitating Capital Economics House price forecast that prices could fall by 10% in 2010.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Is the U.S. Housing Market Recovery for Real? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Existing home sales surprised the markets by rising 7.4% to an annual rate of 6.54 million units in November, the highest since February 2007, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). That's only 10% below the all-time peak in 2005.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
UK House Prices Continue 2010 Debt Fuelled Election Bounce / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
This UK house price trend analysis represents the next in a series of analysis as part of my unfolding inflationary mega-trend scenario towards the formulation of 2010 forecasts for inflation, interest rates and economy. I aim to complete the whole scenario and implications of before the end of December which will be published as an ebook that I will make available for FREE. Ensure you are subscribed to my always free newsletter to get the latest analysis in your email box and check my most recent analysis on the probable inflation mega-trend at http://www.walayatstreet.com
Friday, December 18, 2009
What Motivates U.S. Home Owners in High Mortgage Negative Equity Properties to Stay Put? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Tim_Iacono
The question of what motivates underwater homeowners to either stay put and continue to make their mortgage payments (if they can) or "walk away" from their home (and their financial obligations) has been receiving an increasing amount of attention in recent weeks.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Will Continue to Suffer in 2010 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Oakshire_Financial
Housing prices aren’t going anywhere. Not for a long, long time.
This is not information that I am excited to be admitting to, as I am a homeowner and am currently in the process of buying another. Unfortunately, I have had way too many cold buckets of reality dumped on me over the years to ignore such a simple truth.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Buying a House – A Risky Proposition? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Axel_Merk
After renting four homes in the San Francisco Bay Area this decade, I bought a house last month. I had been a long-time advocate of renting rather than buying, so what drove me to buy a house now? Has the time come to buy a house as an inflation hedge? Buying a house should be a matter of risk, not price.