Posts Tagged ‘Crash’
Home-Sales Revisions to Hurt: More Distress in Market
The revisions don’t change sales on the ground today, but it remains to be seen how the perception of a deeper housing crash will affect home sales, prices and distress in the future.
Beware of the Big Bad Home Sales Revisions
We already know the housing crash was bad, perhaps the worst in history; tomorrow we will learn that it’s worse than we thought.
Housing Crash Causing Record Stagnation
Just over 11 million Americans moved between March of 2010 and March of 2011, according to a new report from the U.S. Census. That might sound like a lot, but it's actually a record low.
Housing Crash Crushes Green Movement
Green costs more, and today's already-skittish potential home buyers are not willing to shell out more cash for a greener standard of living, according to a new survey.
Fannie Mae Offers Investors New Financing Option
Remember how we all blamed investor/flippers using faulty financing for the housing crash? You know, these are all the bad guys who ran up home prices to their own profit, with no concern for the inevitable fallout; they colluded with overzealous, borderline blind, lenders who gave anybody and everybody a loan with no attention paid to their ability to repay said loan.
Mortgage Rates Are All in Your Head
The housing crash, foreclosure crisis and banking scandals have all combined to make buyers more sensitive than ever before. That's why the slightest fluctuation in mortgage interest rates have huge emotional power today.
Two for One House Deal
At the beginning of the housing crash, sellers would advertise, "Buy our house, get the flat screen TV's!" Then, as the market deteriorated further, they touted, "Buy our house, and we'll throw in the car!" Now it's "Buy our house, get a second house too!" Such is the sad state of real estate in America today.
Apartment Sector Sees Record Improvements
If there can be an upside to the housing crash, the apartment sector is where you'll find it. Vacancies are down and rents are up, according to the latest data from Reis, Inc. Not only is the sector seeing improvements, it's seeing record improvements.
Mortgage Purchase Apps About to Crash? FHA Commissioner Weighs In
Government purchase applications have been driving the market for the past year, accounting for, at times, nearly half of all new loans. That may be about to change.
Mortgage Purchase Apps About to Crash? FHA Commissioner Weighs In
Government purchase applications have been driving the market for the past year, accounting for, at times, nearly half of all new loans. That may be about to change.
