Analysis Topic: Housing Market Price trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Forecast, One Dead Cat Bounce and Two Sucker Rallies to Go? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Andrew_Butter
The big excitement this month was the tiny up-tick in the May S&P Case-Shiller Index. "Seasonally adjusted" the number was still down on April, but then it's not clear what's "seasonal" about a house-price crash. Right now the bulk of the market is driven by foreclosure sales and there is no evidence that is "seasonal".
Saturday, August 01, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Winds Shifting, Investor Flexibility Breeds Opportunity / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_and_Markets
If there’s one thing you learn fast in this business, its flexibility. If you stay rigid, unwavering, and unyielding in the face of a mounting pile of contrary technical and fundamental evidence, you’re not being disciplined. You’re being inflexible. And you’re going to go broke pretty darn quick!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Helped Create the U.S. Housing Market Bubble / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM), originally designated as a "government-sponsored enterprise" (GSE), was born in 1938 as a child of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Great-Depression-fighting "New Deal," and was designed to stimulate mortgage lending.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Bottom or Heading for Another Collapse? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: A rash of positive housing data has given some analysts hope that the housing market has bottomed and an economic recovery is underway. But the soaring unemployment and rising mortgage rates could lead to a double-dip plunge for the housing market.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Mortgage Debt Walk Away Hypocrites Comments / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
Yesterday's post Emails from Housing Hypocrites about Ethics generated an unusually high number of responses. Let's take a look at some of them.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Has the U.S. Housing Market Hit Bottom? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Tim_Iacono
Now that a number of recent housing reports are generating some incredibly positive headlines and the global economy appears to be slowly digging its way out of an enormous hole that was created last fall when the world nearly came to an end, the burning question on the minds of millions of people is ... Has the housing market hit bottom?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Emails from Housing Hypocrites about Ethics of Walking Away from Debt / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
In Preemptive Defaults I discussed how consumers "trapped in a whirlpool of debt, interest payments, and fees spiraling out of control, finally see the light of preemptive defaults and elect to walk away".
Friday, July 24, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Crash Real Story as Home Vacancies Hit 19 Million / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
Bloomberg is reporting U.S. Home Vacancies Hit 18.7 Million on Bank Seizures.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
A Warning from Spain About the House Price Crash / Housing-Market / Spain
By: MoneyWeek
David Stevenson writes: Almost every day, it seems, someone else wants to tell us the housing market's picking up.
On Tuesday, even the taxman had a go. Apparently the number of British homes sold (for more than £40,000) was up 15% in June compared with May.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Bernanke Terrified by Commercial Real Estate Market Crash / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
When a member of the Fed admits a problem, especially chairman Bernanke, you can rest assured the problem is far worse than what they admit.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Commercial Real Estate Trend Accelerates To Downside / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The commercial real estate bust is now in full swing as Moody's Commercial Real Estate Scorecard Accelerates To Downside.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Mortgage Lenders Desert Long Term Fixed Rate Mortgages / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: MoneyFacts
This week sees Manchester BS withdrawing its 30 year fixed rate mortgage, meaning that borrowers can no longer fix their mortgage repayments for more than 15 years.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Seven Immutable Laws of Bubbles: Example, Housing Markets in USA, UK & Dubai / Housing-Market / Liquidity Bubble
By: Andrew_Butter
The cycle of bubble and bust in housing is drawing to a close. For many the ferocity of the bust and the collateral damage that followed was a shock, but bubbles and busts are not new; chances are there will be more.
I got interested in bubbles in early 2008 trying to figure out why my model of real estate prices that had worked perfectly for ten years was saying that prices in Dubai which is where I was at the time, "should" have been 30% less than where they were.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Foreclosures Hit Record 1.5 Million / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The grim but not unexpected housing data shows U.S. Foreclosure Filings Hit Record 1.5 Million in First Half.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Peak to Trough Case Shiller and CAR Home Price Declines / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
The following charts were produced by my friend "TC" who has been monitoring California Association of Realtors (CAR) data, DQNews data, and Case-Shiller Data. Although individual cities topped at varying times, the top-10 and top-20 cities peaked in a June-July 2006 timeframe.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Worlds Tallest Building, Burj Dubai Final Height Fails to Meet 900 meter Target / Housing-Market / Middle East
By: Pravda
Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, will be opened in United Arab Emirates in December of this year with a three-month delay, The National newspaper wrote with reference to Emaar Properties, the company that builds the tower.
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Monday, July 13, 2009
U.S. Housing Update - How Far To The Bottom? / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds have been asking for another housing update.
Using the Japan Nationwide Land Prices model as my guide, here is how I have called things in real time.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Nationwide Responds to Criticism of 125% LTV Mortgage Lending / Housing-Market / Mortgages
By: Nationwide
As a responsible lender which aims to support its borrowers Nationwide has responded to market conditions and made an option available which enables some existing customers in negative equity to move home. This is not available to new customers. The maximum LTV for existing customers taking a new deal at Nationwide remains at 95%.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Lunatics at Nationwide Offer 125% LTV Mortgage as if the Housing Crash Never Happened / Housing-Market / UK Housing
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Nationwide as if the financial crisis never happened, as if the housing market had not crashed, as if the tax payers had not been forced to bail out bankrupt bank after bankrupt bank have seized the moment to grab the headlines by announcing a 125% LTV mortgage reminiscence of the pre-crash housing bubble mania days.
Friday, July 03, 2009
U.S. Housing Market Recovery Process Outlook / Housing-Market / US Housing
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson writes: Every few months, I feel it’s my duty to let you know the latest about what’s going on in housing. There is simply so much off-the-wall blather, bogus data, and downright misinformation out there that if I don’t cut through it, I don’t know who the heck will!