Category: US Housing
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
US Mortgages, Risky Bisiness "Easy Money" / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Whitney
Here we go again.
Last week, the country’s biggest mortgage lenders scored a couple of key victories that will allow them to ease lending standards, crank out more toxic assets, and inflate another housing bubble. Here’s what’s going on.
On Monday, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Mel Watt, announced that Fannie and Freddie would slash the minimum down-payment requirement on mortgages from 5 percent to 3 percent while making loans more available to people with spotty credit. If this all sounds hauntingly familiar, it should. It was less than 7 years ago that shoddy lending practices blew up the financial system precipitating the deepest slump since the Great Depression. Now Watt wants to repeat that catastrophe by pumping up another credit bubble. Here’s the story from the Washington Post:
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Evidence of New U.S. Housing Market Real Estate Bust Starting to Appear / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: EWI
Editor's note: With permission, the following article was adapted from the October 2014 issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a publication of Elliott Wave International, the world's largest market forecasting firm. You may review an extended version of the article for free here.
In February, The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast discussed the great boom in New York City's residential real estate and its keen resemblance to what happened in 1929, when the demand for luxury housing also spiked to previously unseen heights. At 133 East 80th Street, we found this plaque commemorating the earlier era's brick-and-mortar monuments to a Supercycle degree peak in social mood.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Meet the New U.S. Housing Market Mortgage Rules – They’re the Same as the Old Ones / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: And you thought the federal government was getting out of the mortgage guaranteeing and backstopping business.
In fact, the feds are not only not getting out of the mortgage business, but they’re already blowing up the next bubble.
As a result, the Great Recession – spawned by the credit crisis, easy-money mortgages and low interest rates – is going to make a comeback.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Five U.S. Housing Market Warning Signs Point to Real Estate Market Downturn / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: John_Mauldin
By Tony Sagami
Investing is about piecing together different bits of information into an illustrative picture—sort of a Wall Street version of the connect-the-dots game we played in kindergarten.
That’s why the headline below from Bloomberg made my investment antennae stand up and motivated me to look for either confirmation that the real estate market was indeed slowing down or contrary evidence to explain if the weak summer sales numbers were just a temporary aberration.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Evidence of Another Even More Sweeping U.S. Housing Market Bust Already Starting to Appear / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: EWI
Editor's note: With permission, the following article was adapted from the October 2014 issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, a publication of Elliott Wave International, the world's largest market forecasting firm. You may review an extended version of the article for free here.
In February, The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast discussed the great boom in New York City's residential real estate and its keen resemblance to what happened in 1929, when the demand for luxury housing also spiked to previously unseen heights. At 133 East 80th Street, we found this plaque commemorating the earlier era's brick-and-mortar monuments to a Supercycle degree peak in social mood.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
The U.S. Housing Market Recovery is a Lie... / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Ben Bernanke began his tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board just as the housing bubble was peaking in February 2006.
He exited the post in February of this year after supposedly shepherding the country out of the Great Recession the mortgage crisis spawned.
He recently admitted the housing recovery is hitting a wall.
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Thursday, October 09, 2014
Second-Richest Man Says Mortgages Now a "No Brainer" / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: Warren Buffett is the second-richest man in America today, behind Bill Gates. (He was the richest man in the world in 2008.)
He made his fortune through the financial markets. Buffett, to me, is the greatest financial mind of our time – if not ever.
Right now, Mr. Buffett says to get a fixed mortgage... Specifically, he calls it a "no brainer" today...
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Saturday, October 04, 2014
U.S. Housing Bull Market Over? House Prices Trend Forecast Current State / News_Letter / US Housing
By: NewsLetter
The Market Oracle NewsletterAugust 23rd, 2014 Issue # 16 Vol. 8
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Friday, October 03, 2014
The Diversity of the Current US Housing Market / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Though greatly improved from the staggering declines of the past decade, the US housing market still tends to undervalue homes by an average estimated 3%. This is the broad view, but America is an enormous country with multiple submarkets. Comparing Metropolitan home sales to the sale of homes in less concentrated areas illuminates the fact that US Housing is not one market, but several.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Why Isn’t U.S. Housing Market A Bubble? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: John_Rubino
In his book The Postcatastrophe Economy, iTulip’s Eric Janszen notes that financial bubbles don’t repeat. That is, yesterday’s bubble is never tomorrow’s because hot money likes to chase the next big thing, not the last big thing. Which explains how US equities, government bonds, fine art, and trophy properties like London penthouses can all be sizzling while US houses, the epicenter of the previous decade’s financial orgy, just sit there.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Can the U.S. Economy Withstand Another Housing Market Breakdown? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Sy_Harding
With the three fascinations of the week, the Fed’s FOMC statement, the separation vote in Scotland, and the Alibaba IPO, now history, will investors re-focus on the economy?
Given what the Fed actually said in its statement, and some recent economic reports, it might be a good idea.
Investors were anxious to judge how long the Fed will leave interest rates at low levels by whether or not it left the words “for a considerable time” in its FOMC statement.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
U.S. House Prices to Soar AFTER the Fed Raises Rates / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: DailyWealth
Dr Steve Sjuggerud writes:"Steve, you know the housing boom will end when the Fed raises interest rates, right?"
Oh really? What makes you so sure about that?
"Steve, you know that mortgage rates are going up, right? And you know that when mortgage rates rise, house prices will fall – or at least stop going up – right?"
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
Peter Schiff U.S. Housing Market, House Prices Bubble Warning / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Peter Schiff recently made another appearance on RT News, once more warning that the U.S. Housing market is a bubble primed to burst as speculator investors will be forced to sell into a market without any buyers.
"I think this is a bubble.
I think speculative buyers are leaving the market ands there is no one to fill the void because the real buyers are absent and if you look at the recent home statistics the percentage of homes bought by first time buyers is at a record low and in fact home ownership amongst individuals is at generational lows so prices have to come down dramatically from here before real buyers can actually afford to buy all the properties that have been bought by speculators, and at some point the speculators if they cannot collect enough rent to cover the cost of ownership they are going to be selling these properties, and look out below because when they put these properties up for sale, again there are no buyers anywhere near the current prices."
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Friday, August 29, 2014
US House Prices Bull Market Over? Trend Forecast Video / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Slowing US house price inflation from a peak of 14% for data released in January this year to now 9% is prompting many housing market analysts to conclude that the US housing bull market may already be over, such as Professor Robert Shiller who recently expressed surprise at the strong rise in US house prices and stating that it is overvalued along with stocks and bonds.
Saturday, August 23, 2014
U.S. Housing Bull Market Over? House Prices Trend Forecast Current State / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Despite U.S. house prices surging higher in July by 1.1% (May data) after near flat lining for several months, the mainstream pundits continue to issue warnings of its unsustainability for as is always the case there are ample snippets of data out there to take either a positive or negative point of view and since fear tends to sell more copy, so that is where approx 80% of the mainstream media's focus lies.
Friday, July 25, 2014
Tap in to Your Inner Feminist-Real Estate Mogul Without Holding Real Property / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Don_Miller
The new book titled #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso—reformed petty thief and CEO of a $100 million online clothing store—is the latest “live and work as I do if you want to succeed” book from a string of brand-building female executives. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has women “leaning in,” while Arianna Huffington’s sleep crusade marches on in her latest book, Thrive. Now, I should confess that I haven’t actually read any of these books; one of my colleagues gave me the recap. However, I have had another female executive on my mind: Ms. C.
Friday, July 18, 2014
U.S. Housing Market in Trouble Again - It’s 2009 All Over Again / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Housing is in trouble… again.
As I write this, several housing stocks I recommended my Short Side Fortunes subscribers get in on are down fairly sizeably today. One stock is trading right now at $39.85. If it breaks below $38, that’s bad news. Another is trading at $23.75. If it breaks below $23, that’s bad news. And yet another is trading at $31.05. If it breaks below $30, that’s bad news.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
U.S. Housing Market Ponzi Scheme Losses: American Homeowners Battling Wall Street / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Ellen_Brown
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Black Rock and PIMCO Sue Banks for $250 Billion
For years, homeowners have been battling Wall Street in an attempt to recover some portion of their massive losses from the housing Ponzi scheme. But progress has been slow, as they have been outgunned and out-spent by the banking titans.
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Ahead of Looming U.S. Housing Market Foreclosure Crisis, Local Governments Are Stepping In / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Ellen_Brown
Mortgage debt overhang from the housing bust has meant lack of middle-class spending power and consumer demand, preventing the economy from growing. The problem might be fixed by a new approach from the Fed. But if the Fed won’t act, counties will, as seen in the latest developments on eminent domain and litigation over Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS).
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
U.S. Economic Recovery™ In One Graph / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Jesse
"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country.
When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.
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