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Friday, May 09, 2008

Top 10 US Housing Price Crash Cities Profiled:
The worst isn't over for Miami, Phoenix, and hard hit areas of California,
which are forecast to see big price drops in the next 12 months,
according to Money Magazine.
10 markets set for steep losses
CNN.Money

Fannie Mae may lose $2 bln-$2.5 bln more this year: FBR
Reuters
"The housing bubble is still bursting, and the GSEs will not be left untouched," he added. Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst Howard Shapiro also said credit issues ...

Housing Market Crash Predicted By Ron Paul And Alan Greenspan
PR Wall Street (press release), VA
Ron Paul, as well, understood the consequences of the housing bubble. In a speech made into the Congressional Record on September 6, 2001, he stated, ...

Lender "workouts" Don't Work? (OR)
Local woman finds obstacles abound in trying to work out new deal with lender • Nearly 15,000 borrowers across the state could see terms reset in the next 18 months
Loan crisis hits home
PortlandTribune

How Many ARM's Set To Reset in 2008...?

No quick fix to glut of home foreclosures (AZ)
Tucson Citizen, AZ
When they began defaulting on the loans, the housing bubble burst. In 2007 there were nearly 4500 foreclosure filings in Pima County, according to ...

The six scariest real estate markets
MSNBC 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Housing Crisis is NOT Over
Seeking Alpha, NY
Despite the decline, home prices are still at record levels historically. More importantly, all the costs associated with owning a home have skyrocketed: ...

Real estate's next buying opportunity
... by Robert Shiller, Yale economist, author of the bestseller Irrational Exuberance and predictor of the collapse of the recent housing bubble. ...
Indeed, in mid-April, futures were predicting that home prices in Los Angeles would fall 33% this year
CNNMoney.com


Rising gas prices, declining suburbs
Los Angeles Times, CA
"The gas price spike popped the housing bubble," according to a new report from the group "CEOs for Cities," which adds, "Growth in housing prices was ...

Investors Take Fannie Mae Loss in Stride
RedOrbit, TX
The Washington, DC-based company said it expects home prices to fall another 9% this year.

Foreclosures Up More Than 50% In State, County (CT)
TheDay, CT
New London County single-family home prices are down about 4 percent so far this year. Sales are off 24 percent. Statewide, prices dropped 7 percent in ...

Merrill Expects US Consumer Loan Defaults to Rise (Update2)
Bloomberg
``Continuation of falling home prices, rising food prices, rising energy prices and higher unemployment will result in a pull back on the part of US ...

Lender listings drag down Twin Cities home prices (MN)
the median price for regular homes on the market in the first quarter was $220,000, down 3.9 percent from a year ago. By contrast, the median price for foreclosures and short sales was $155,000, down 10.4 percent.
Pioneer Press, MN

US Bankruptcies Jumped in April, as Banks Tightened Lending Rules
ABN Newswire (press release), Australia
He said in a speech in New York that mortgage delinquencies will weigh on economic growth, pushing home prices down further, hurting the broader economy and ...

Fannie Mae sees sharper home-price declines, loses $2.2B
YahooNews

It’s Going to Get Worse!
Economist David Lereah was once the housing market's biggest cheerleader. Now he says the bust isn't near over, and home prices still have a long way to fall.
Newsweek

RI 1Q home sales drop by 23%, prices 10% (RI)
Single-family home sales in the first quarter of 2008 across Rhode Island dropped 23.19 percent to 1,242, as the median price fell 9.93 percent to $245,000, according to statistics released today by the Rhode Island Association of Realtors.
Providence Business News, RI

This Weeks Biggest Loser:  Tampa, Florida
Median home asking price tumbles nearly $4K in past week! (1.9%)
HousingTracker.net: Median Home Asking Price & Inventory Data for Tampa, Florida

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Orange County, CA Prices: From Front Page to Short Sale
The Orange County Register wrote the first half of the story in July 2005, when it reported that median home prices had topped $600,000, and highlighted 484 Traverse Drive in Costa Mesa. Three-bedroom, two bath house had just sold for $600,000.
Calculated Risk
Here's the short history of 484 Traverse Drive:
--Sept. 7, 1994: Sold for $177,500
--June 9, 2005: Sold for $600,000
--July 19, 2005: Featured on the front page of the OC Register
--April 26, 2008: Listed for sale as a short sale, asking $559,000
--May 2, 2008: Price reduced to $439,000
Los Angeles Times, CA

Jose Canseco is the latest victim of the housing bust
Try to hold back your tears. The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that "Faced with sinking property prices and heavy legal fines, he has abandoned a multimillion-dollar home in suburban Los Angeles and let it lapse into foreclosure."
WalletPop, VA

Financial worst may not be over
MiamiHerald.com, FL
Home prices and sales continue falling month after month, leaving a key part of the financial sector unclear. ''I think the reality of it is, nobody knows ...
 
Discounted Homes, Going, Going, Gone …
KRIS-TV, TX 
With home prices sliding and foreclosures rising, real estate has become the fastest-growing category of auctions, according to the National Auctioneers ...

Rebuttal To SmartMoney US Housing Market Bottom Call
The Market Oracle, UK 

Hidden Mortgage Risks Abound in US Home Market
Bloomberg
While it's a given that home prices will continue to fall in most major markets in the immediate future, you have to defy the conventional wisdom on what ...

No recovery for new homes seen in 2008
It will take till 2011 or early 2012 for valley market to stabilize
The Modesto Bee

Asia Getting Fed Up With Bernanke's Rate Cuts
Bloomberg

Berkshire’s Munger: Subprime Makes “Enron Look Like a Tea Party”
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY


MinnPost.com
Beyond McCain: Ron Paul's supporters hope to reshape the GOP
MinnPost.com, MN 
"We're not getting vast numbers to say 'get rid of the Federal Reserve,' but we are hearing more talk about 'sound money,'" she added. ...

Friday, May 2, 2008

Home Prices Fall in 22 US Cities as Foreclosures Reach Record!
Bloomberg

Now's not the time to be flip about housing
Seattle Times, United States

FORECLOSURES MULTIPLY AND VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS
Last week in Pompano Beach, Florida, Patrick Dellisanti, 57, walked into the clubhouse of his homeowner association brandishing a gun and demanded to speak with an employee of the association over the $4,000 fees charged to the condo of his 80 year old mother. He took two employees hostage.
There has been many such acts of violence in homeowner associations. Some observers say that these murders are the tip of an iceberg. All across the country, homeowners complain that homeowner associations have become fraud riddled cash registers for lawyers and other vendors, who seek any excuse to fine and sue homeowners. Homeowners report that the courts routinely rule against the homeowner and for the homeowner association, granting lawyer fees in excess of a millon dollars in some cases. Reports indicate that foreclosures are higher in homeowner associations than in non-homeowner association housing.

AHRC News Services, CA 

Lenders and borrowers
Salt Lake Tribune, United States
Let the housing bubble burst. Home borrowers who fail to repay mortgages should suffer the same consequences as any other nonpaying debtor. ...

Home Depot to Close Stores, Trim Expansion
Briefing.com, CA
The world's largest home improvement retailer came under pressure once the housing bubble burst. Year-over-year earnings have fallen in each of its five ...

Bank of America May Not Guarantee Countrywide's Debt
Bloomberg 

With Much Blood-Letting to Come, the US Housing Finance System Needs Replacing
Money Morning

No recovery for new homes seen in 2008
Modesto Bee, CA

Rich And Famous New York Enclave Experiences Slump In Home Prices
According to a survey by appraisal company Miller Samuel, the median price of a Hampton home dipped by 7.1 percent to $882,500 while sales tumbled by 29 percent compared to the last quarter of 2007.
AHN

House panel passes sweeping mortgage aid bill
Reuters 

The Coming Rental Crisis
U.S. News & World Report, DC

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Average Homeowner Will Lose $85000 in Wealth This Year
HULIQ (press release), NC


The Associated Press

Index: Home Prices Plunge 19.4 Percent in Year
Black Enterprise, NY

A Manic Depression
HoweStreet.com, Canada
Housing bubble bursts, check. Huge financial institutions closing their doors, check. Well at least the worst is over, right? Wrong. ...
Disappearing now: $6 trillion in housing wealth
Los Angeles Times, CA 
"At this rate of price decline, the excesses of the housing bubble will have largely disappeared by the end of the year. At the same time, the price decline ...

Latest rate cut by Fed may be last
DetNews.com, MI

Spike in gas prices help burst housing bubble
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR

Case-Shiller Shows Steep Declines In Home Prices
HoweStreet.com, Canada
Leave it to the government and the Fed to cause the housing bubble, to totally screw up measurement of the housing bubble, and to screw up the measurement ...

S.D. Housing Prices Continue to Drop, But Property Taxes Expected to Increase (CA)
KPBS, CA

Is the Fed Bankrupting America?
SeekingAlpha

Monday, April 28, 2008

Must Government Inflate Home Prices?
Lew Rockwell, CA 
Bond guru Bill Gross says the government must move in support of home prices to make sure the credit markets don’t melt down. ...

Home Sales, Prices Tumbling As Spring Buying Season Starts (CT)
Hartford Business
More striking, the median price of an existing home sank 7.7 percent from March 2007

Foreclosure in Fontana? A 27-year-old ponders walking away (CA)
LATimesBlog

Why the housing crisis will be worse "out there"
Then what? Collapsing prices, and a decline in home ownership in wounded suburbs: " ... the fate of many single-family homes on the metropolitan fringes will be resale, at rock-bottom prices, to lower-income families — and in all likelihood, eventual conversion to apartments."
Los Angeles Times, CA

Countrywide CEO got $22.1 million for 2007:
He collected much more in options in same year company's stock dropped 80%
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA

Now that the housing bubble has burst...
Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD

Housing slump hits builders (MI)
Suppliers, jobs vanish as piles of unsold homes in Metro Detroit make new construction rare.
DetNews.com, MI

Presidential candidates call for government to rescue homeowners
Dallas Morning News, TX

Homeowners warned about home loan rate rises by big banks
Daily Telegraph, Australia

SCHOLAR THREATENED FOR WARNING OF HOUSING BUBBLE
Yahoo!7

Amid storm of blame for crisis, brokers defend their industry
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA

Goldman Sachs mortgage head Dan Sparks quits
MarketWatch

Mass. foreclosures up 140% in a year
Boston Globe, United States

Record number of foreclosures in Pittsburgh region in first quarter
Bizjournals.com, NC
The number of foreclosures in the Pittsburgh region set a record high in the first quarter with 1187 homeowners returning their keys to the bank. ...
 
Lower prices can put 'real' in real estate (TAIPEI)
Palm Beach Post,  United States
The housing bubble burst because it was unsustainable, and the burst followed two bad hurricane years that pushed up insurance rates. ...

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