Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Ben Bernanke's Misguided Focus on U.S. Housing Market is Like a Bad Joke / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
It's a little early for April Fools, but Ben Bernanke might just be a prankster at heart.
I say this because he recently told the Economic Club of Indiana in Indianapolis that the Fed's plans for QE3 would help create more economic activity and higher home prices. Then he added, almost as an afterthought, that this would help many more savers than it would hurt.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Slowly Rising U.S. House Prices Positive for U.S. Economy / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
The Case-Shiller Home Price Index (HPI) of 20 metro areas rose 0.4% in July, marking the sixth consecutive monthly increase. An alternate price measure such as the CoreLogic Home Price Index shows almost a similar trend. However, it should be noted that these gains are occurring from extraordinarily low levels (see chart below) and the underlying trend is one of slight deceleration, which reduces the optimism rendered by the headline, somewhat.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
US House Prices Bottom As BubbleomiX Predicted / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Andrew_Butter
Now The 1% Can Screw The 99%...Yippee!!It looks like US house prices have bottomed; this is the S&P Case-Shiller 20-City Index up to June 2012:
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
U.S. Housing Market Improvements Keep Trickling In / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
Housing market developments (starts and sales of existing homes) in August stand out amid a recent string of bearish economic reports. Builders broke ground for construction of new single-family homes at a brisk pace (+5.5%) in August. From a low of 478,000 starts in April of 2009, total housing starts have moved up 57%. Still, this is a long way from the historical high of 2.27 million units in January 2006.
Monday, September 17, 2012
U.S. Housing Market Mortgage Rates Maintain Slow Decline Trend / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Submissions
Brent Wayne writes: Housing mortgage rates in September 2012 continue to maintain the slow decrease in rate amounts, maintain the historically low levels not seen for 60 years. Rates for a 30-year single detached house mortgage are being offered at an average 3.79 percent as of September 6, 2012. This low rate has held since May . Some loans are seeing 0.4 points added, but those with good credit are being offered the average rate without any major conditions.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Return of the high LTV UK Mortgage Market Products / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: MoneyFacts
There has been an increase in activity from lenders launching mortgage deals at higher loan-to-values (LTVs), providing some much-needed relief for first-time buyers (FTBs) searching for competitive rates for smaller deposits.
There were 36 new mortgage deals in the 85% LTV tiers and above in August 2012, a complete reversal from the drop of 26 products the previous month.
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Sunday, September 09, 2012
U.S. Housing Market is the Most Awesome Opportunity in American History / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: The situation we're facing today can be boiled down to a few very simple points... And the result is an awesome investment opportunity.
It is possibly the greatest investing opportunity in American history...
Saturday, September 08, 2012
UK Home Extension Planning Rules Relaxed to Boost Economy, Trigger Housing Bull Market / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Coalition government in panic has realised that it is destined to lose the next general election unless it kick starts the UK ecocnomy so has announced proposals for a whole host of initiatives that will seek to provide billions in funding and cut through red tape that is hindering infrastructure and new homes construction with the aim of triggering a mini building boom and thus help the economy to recovery in the run up to the next general election.
Sunday, September 02, 2012
How to Invest in the Resurgent U.S. Housing Market / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: InvestmentContrarian
While there are still many pockets of weakness in the housing market, there are now some positives beginning to emerge. We’ve seen plenty of companies reporting that the higher end of the housing market is certainly rebounding strongly. Last week, Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE/TOL) reported quarterly earnings that were the highest since 2008. The company’s CEO stated that it is currently seeing the most sustained demand since 2008.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Fixing the U.S. Mortgage Market Mess / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Ellen_Brown
Two landmark developments on August 16th give momentum to the growing interest of cities and counties in addressing the mortgage crisis using eminent domain:
(1) The Washington State Supreme Court held in Bain v. MERS, et al., that an electronic database called Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) is not a “beneficiary” entitled to foreclose under a deed of trust; and
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Canada’s Housing Market – Boom Or Bust? / Housing-Market / Canada
By: Vin_Maru
Bank of Canada may be ahead of all its peers in ensuring its banks meet the Basel capital requirements. And it may have done a better job in regulating the banking sector, but they are not innocent of allowing bubbles in Canada to form. Even Mark Carney feels that the housing market is overheated. Carney made recent comments about the health of Canadian banks.
As for Canada's banks, Carney said they may have some exposure to record household debt levels and the overheated housing market, but he noted that high-risk mortgages are insured by the federal government.
The Canadian real estate housing bubble still seems to get inflated in some major cities like Toronto.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
U.S. Housing Market Starts Fall, Take Note of Composition / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
Housing starts fell 1.1% during July to an annual rate of 746,000. This level is about 56% above the low (478,000) registered in April 2009. In July, new home building activity advanced in the multi-family sector (+12.4%) but declined in the single-family sector (-6.5%). Despite these mixed numbers, as Chart 1 indicates, there is a steady but small upward trend of total housing starts in place, with most of the gain occurring since early-2011.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Will Speculators Rescue the U.S. Housing Market? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Sy_Harding
After the housing bubble burst there was sympathy for first-time home-buyers who had been enticed in by the easy loans and rising home prices and wound up in trouble.
But investors in single family homes came to be castigated as ‘flippers’, ‘suckers’, and worse. They had played a significant role in creating the bubble, signing contracts, often on multiple homes, making virtually no down payments, not intending to ever live in or even rent out the homes, but to simply flip them for a quick profit. Builders could hardly keep up with demand for a while, but wound up with wastelands of partially completed developments and condo projects, especially in the sun-belt states.
Friday, August 03, 2012
U.S. Housing Market Good News Keeps Rolling In / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Fred_Sheehan
"Positive Housing News Keeps Rolling In," exclaimed the headline of a July 24, 2012, Wall Street Journal story by Steven Russolillo. The author found much to praise. One gloomy Gus could not help but conclude otherwise. Old Gus holds the house market at bay, one reason being the great unknown of what will happen to house prices when Fannie and Freddie are no more. The GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises) are still a massive presence in the home mortgage market. Their full faith is due to the implicit U.S. government guarantee.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Fall in New Home Sales Casts a Shadow on U.S. Housing Market / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
Sales of new single-family homes fell 8.4% to an annual rate of 350,000 in June following upward revisions to both April and May sales numbers. The level of new home sales in the second quarter (363,000) is above the first quarter mark (352,000) mainly due to the sharp increase in sales recorded in May.
Friday, July 13, 2012
U.S. Housing Market: Share of Underwater Homes Trending Down / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
The recovery of the housing market is another major concern of the Fed in addition to the labor market. Three years of economic recovery is yet to result in a meaningful turnaround of the housing sector. One of the pressing issues is the prevalence of home mortgages with negative equity. Negative equity (often referred to as homes with underwater mortgages) means that homes are worth less than what borrowers owe on their mortgages.
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Monday, July 02, 2012
UK House Prices fall by 1.5% / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Submissions
James Mechan writes: The average UK house price fell by 1.5% in June – the largest decrease since August 2009. The average house is now valued at £165,738, as prices fell by 1% nationally. However, for the same period, prices in Greater London rose by 1%, giving an average house price of £401,841.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Case-Shiller U.S. Home Price Index – Confirms Improvements Reported Elsewhere / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
The seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller Home Price Index increased 0.67% in April, marking the third consecutive monthly increase. This is the first sustained gain since the recovery began three years ago, excluding the gains seen when the temporary first-time home buyer credit program was in place during an extended part of 2009 and 2010. Among the twenty metro areas tracked, seventeen of them showed an increase in the home price index, while home price gauges of Boston, Detroit, and New York slipped.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
U.S. New Home Sales Encouraging Signs / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Asha_Bangalore
Sales of new single-family homes rose 7.6% to an annual rate of 369,000 units, after a nearly steady reading in April. Regionally, sales of new homes fell in the Midwest (-10.6%) and West (-3.5%), while they moved up in the Northeast (+36.7%) and South (+12.7%).
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Key Reasons Why U.S. Housing Market is Not Coming Back: Demographics, Student Debt, No Jobs / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
Consumers Not Ready to Borrow Again
Ben Bernanke is trying like mad to stimulate credit and lending but to no avail. It's an uphill debt because of demographics, student debt, and lack of jobs.
Citing falling debt-service needs, some economists think consumers may be ready to go on a borrowing. They are badly mistaken.
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