Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
U.S. Housing Market Recovery Faces a Brick Wall - Flippers Flopping / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: EWI
In 2005, a mania for residential real estate reached such a fever pitch that a series of cable television shows became entirely devoted to house "flipping."
Flipping involves buying a worse-for-wear house, making the minimum repairs necessary, then turning right around and selling it - ideally for a fast and handsome profit.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Is Buying U.S. Real Estate Now, Insanely Brilliant or Moronic? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: LewRockwell
Mark R. Crovelli writes: As a graduate student and construction worker in San Diego from 2003-2005, I was afforded an up-close view of the inflation of the last real estate bubble. It was a truly exciting time to work in the building industry in Southern California because there was so much money sloshing around. I literally couldn’t even walk into Home Depot without being accosted by hordes of greedy homeowners and slippery contractors offering to pay cash to anyone willing to do construction work.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Are You A Good Candidate for a Reverse Mortgage? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Don_Miller
Two of the top subjects that my Money Forever readers have asked us to cover are annuities, specifically how to pick the right one and covered in the November issue with a companion “how-to” special report (click here for how to get your copy), and reverse mortgages. My guess they’re seeing all those TV ads featuring Henry Winkler and Robert Wagner and wondering if it’s right for them.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Why the U.S. Housing Market Is “Home Sweet Home” / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: It was extremely difficult times for homeowners following the subprime mortgage implosion that helped to drag down the global economy in 2008. I recall how easy it was to get a mortgage without even having to provide an income or work history to the lenders. When an entry-level worker at McDonalds Corporation (NYSE/MCD) can get a mortgage with no questions asked, you have to wonder how long it might be before a housing bubble surfaces.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
U.S. Housing Market Recovery Just Rescued 4 Million Homeowners / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Ben Gersten writes: In further signs of a U.S. housing market recovery, home prices are up - meaning a whopping 33% fewer homeowners are underwater.
When the U.S. housing market bottomed out in 2008, nearly one in six homeowners owed more on mortgages than their homes were worth. That translated to 12 million underwater homeowners.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Oslo Housing Market Bubble Syndrome / Housing-Market / European Housing
By: Mark_Thornton
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological phenomenon whereby hostages develop irrational sympathy toward their captors even to the point of defending their captors in subsequent investigations and criminal trials. While this applies to individuals or small groups, the Oslo syndrome applies to whole national populations.
In The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege (Smith and Kraus Global, 2005), Kenneth Levin describes a “psychological response common among chronically besieged populations, whether minorities subjected to defamation, discrimination and assault or small nations under persistent attack by their neighbors. People living under such stressful conditions often choose to accept at face value the indictments of their accusers in the hope of thereby escaping their predicament.”[1]
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Why It’s a “Fake” U.S. Housing Market Recovery / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Profit_Confidential
Michael Lombardi writes: Michael Lombardi writes: The U.S. housing market is becoming a main topic again in the mainstream media these days. I keep reading about how rising home prices will now get the U.S. economy going again.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
US Housing Bear Market Over? House Prices Forecast 2013-2016 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Has the US housing bear market ended ?
Follow the analysis to find out the answer including a detailed trend forecast covering over 3 years from 2013 to 2016.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Why China’s Real Estate Makes Perfect Sense / Housing-Market / China Housing Market
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: China is beginning to show renewed growth. The country is driving stimulus spending and easy monetary policy to get its economy back on track and drive consumers to spend.
And while there has been talk of an asset bubble in China’s housing market, my view is that the short-term risk is high, but there’s also excellent long-term growth potential in the Chinese housing market.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
U.S. Housing Real Estate Market House Prices Trend Forecast 2013 to 2016 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Following the peak of the over leveraged US housing market bubble late 2006, the real estate market literally crashed during 2007 triggering the financial crisis that has acted to subsequently feed a multi-year bear market as a consequence of the subprime mortgage debacle that was magnified globally via toxic CDO packages that literally risked the bankruptcy of the whole global financial system starting in June 2007 when Bear Sterns bailed out one of its hedge funds, within a year Bear Sterns would effectively go bust as JPM picked it up for about 5% of its peak value that acted as a prelude to what was yet to come during 2008 for the likes of Lehman's that prompted tax payer bailouts right across the globe to prevent financial armageddon as the too big to fail banks only slowly revealed the extent to their exposure to the toxic mortgage backed securities in what amounted to the greatest fraud in history as investors had been duped into buying junk that the credit rating agencies typically rated as Triple A for a fee.
Friday, January 04, 2013
The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act and Debt Cancellation / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Submissions
The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 is a temporary law that allows homeowners who have their mortgage debt reduced, either through restructuring, modification, short sale or foreclosure, not claim the forgiven debt amount as taxable income.
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Spain Mortgage Nightmare; Why Spain is Guaranteed to Leave Euro / Housing-Market / Spain
By: Mike_Shedlock
Looking for a synopsis of the problems facing Spain? A summary of bullet points I gathered from the Spiegel article Evictions Become Focus of Spanish Crisis shows just how hopeless the situation is.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
When to Pay Off Your Mortgage / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: Casey_Research
My good friend Rob recently paraphrased Warren Buffett as saying, “If he knew where he was going to live for the next decade, he’d buy a house with a long-term mortgage.” Buffett thought a mortgage was a good hedge against inflation, because the homeowner would pay off the mortgage with cheaper dollars down the road.
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Saturday, December 08, 2012
Will the U.S. Housing Market Recovery Continue? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: We have all heard the recent news that the housing market recovery is well on its way off the bottom. With home prices continuing to move up, many are questioning the long-term strength of the housing market. While there is no question that home prices have hit the lowest point and won’t return to those levels again, many are worried that they missed the housing market recovery, as prices have already risen significantly. I think there’s a few more years left for price appreciation in the housing market.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
Why U.S. Housing Market Stocks “For Sale” Sign Is Gone / Housing-Market / Housing Stocks
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong writes: There were extremely difficult times for homeowners following the subprime mortgage implosion that helped to drag down the global economy in 2008. I recall at that time how easy it was to get a mortgage without even having to provide an income or work history to the lenders. When an entry level worker at McDonalds Corporation (NYSE/MCD) could get a mortgage with no questions asked, you had to wonder how long it would be before a housing bubble would surface.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
U.S. Housing Market Outlook 2013 / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac write: One of the most often talked about parts of the economy is the real estate market sector. Because real estate is such a large and important part of the economy, naturally, many eyes are focused on whether or not this market sector can and will rebound from its deep decline.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The FHA Is Just Another Thanksgiving Turkey Whose Time Has Come / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: moneymorning
Shah Gilani writes:
In 2008, when mortgage-backed securities bled rivers of red ink from the slaughtered subprime housing market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rolled over dead in their tracks.
Then, government geniuses scrambled to fix the crisis by pushing forward another sacrificial turkey.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Impact on U.S. Housing Market Demand of Boomerang Students Returning Home / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
According to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau Multigenerational households on rise in U.S.
More than 4.3 million, or 5.6 percent, of the 76 million family households in the U.S. today are multigenerational households, or families living together that include a grandparent, parent and children as well as other family members, according to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Netherlands House Price Crash Underway; Will France Follow? / Housing-Market / European Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The Netherlands has the 5th largest economy in the eurozone. Home prices are in the midst of a huge plunge notes reader Andrea who is from Italy but now lives in France.
Andrea supplied links to articles in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. She writes ...
Saturday, October 06, 2012
The Truth Behind the U.S. Housing Market / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: InvestmentContrarian
With yet another month of data, we’re seeing the continued recovery in the housing market. Research firm CoreLogic, Inc. (NYSE/CLGX) just reported that August home prices were up 4.6% from a year ago. This big increase in year-over-year home prices is the largest in six years.
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