home prices
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 16, 2011The ever-changing housing market continues this week with an update on interest rates, negative equity from Zillow, and the March Home Price Index from CoreLogic. Interest Rates Continue Short Term Slide Mortgage rates declined for the week ending May 12, 2011. Freddie Mac reported the 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped to 4.63% from 4.71% a [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 9, 2011This week the housing market offered better rates, allowing refinancing to increase again. The Multi Housing Council released its quarterly survey, and Clear Capital declared an official double-dip in home prices. Interest Rates Favorable Again Mortgage rates were more attractive again for the week ending May 5th, 2011. Freddie Mac reported a decrease in the [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | May 2, 2011A busy week in the housing market included reports on pending home sales, new home sales, home prices and an update on home ownership and vacancy rates. Enjoy! Pending Home Sales Rise The National Association of Realtors reported a rise in pending home sales for the month of March. Pending home sales rose 5.1% to [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | April 11, 2011This week we cover the big drop in vacancy rates, lower home prices (yes, more bad news), interest rates, and mortgage application activity. Apartment Vacancy Rates Fall Vacancy rates fell in the multi-family sector. REIS reported that apartment vacancy dropped from 6.6% to 6.2% in the first quarter of 2011. This is the biggest drop [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | April 4, 2011 
Home prices are the main subject in this week’s coverage of the housing market. Also I provide some commentary from Maria Bartiromo’s keynote at the Standard & Poor’s event here in New York. Housing near Official Double-Dip Standard and Poor’s reported its January Case-Shiller Home Price Index this week. The beginning of the year has [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | March 14, 2011 
The theme this week is price declines. While not exciting for the macro-picture, it could be great news if you’re in acquisition mode. Also at the end of this week’s report you’ll find a startling statistic from the Federal Reserve. Enjoy! Clear Capital: Quarterly Declines Continue Provider of valuation services, Clear Capital, reported its Home [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | February 28, 2011Home prices are still declining. Does this mean you should wait before buying? Mortgage rates dipped but will it last? The National Association of Realtors reported on Existing Home Sales this week. Will home sales continue to outperform weak expectations? Case-Shiller: Home Price Go Lower Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index was released [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | February 14, 2011How long will price declines continue? Are interest rates going anywhere but up? We answer these questions and take a look at mortgage activity and foreclosure rates this week. CoreLogic: Price Declines Enter 5th Straight Month CoreLogic released its December Home Price Index, showing home prices declined 5.46% over December 2009. Excluding distressed sales, prices [...]
Housing by Ryan Hinricher | January 31, 2011 
This week housing market news was largely bearish with declining home prices being the top story. Also are interest rates closing in on last year’s rates? Mortgage activity is reversing to the negative as well. But a sliver lining in new home sales keeps analysts optimistic. Case-Shiller: Home Prices Continue 2nd Slide Home prices continue [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | January 10, 2011 
During the first full week of the new year, Reis reported on vacancy rates, we get an interest rate update from Freddie Mac, a 2011 forecast on home prices from RadarLogic, and lastly a study from the Housing Research Institute of America on declining cities. Apartment Vacancy Declines While vacant homes seem to stacking up [...]
Read the full article → Housing by Ryan Hinricher | December 6, 2010 
This week housing’s biggest story was a big rise in pending home sales. In addition we’ll cover rising interest rates and mortgage purchase applications. Standard & Poor’s also reports on the broad-based home prices and we’ll finish up with final thoughts and a look forward. Pending Home Sales: A Big RISE Coming off slightly lower [...]
Read the full article → Economy by Ryan Hinricher | February 22, 2010Maybe it was only symbolic move. On Thursday, the Federal Reserve hiked its lending rate for emergency bank loans known as the “Fed Discount Rate” from .5% to .75% in an off-cycle meeting. While this rate affects little in the day-to-day bank-to-consumer lending, the Fed could be prepping us all for changes in its easy [...]
Economy by Ryan Hinricher | February 1, 2010Last week, a media storm took place with the large drop in existing home sales. The drop of 16% seemed to shock everyone who was predicting only a 10% decline after the expiration of the initial home-buyer tax credit. Right after this, the numbers came out on new home sales, which painted an even bleaker [...]
Commentary by Charles Feldman | April 23, 2008In the 60s, Sonny & Cher (before Sonny crashed into a tree while skiing) had a big hit with the song “And The Beat Goes On”–or something like that. Now, in real estate, 2008, a good song title might be “And The Debate Goes On!” The “debate” is whether or not this is or isn’t [...]
Mortgages & Lending by Charles Feldman | December 28, 2007The sky might not be falling, but home prices certainly are and in more parts of the nation than ever before. From October of 2006, home prices fell a whopping 6.1 percent. Most troubling, the declines happened in 20 of the largest metropolitan areas, and in many of those, the declines were much steeper. In [...]
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by Charles Feldman | April 23, 2008In the 60s, Sonny & Cher (before Sonny crashed into a tree while skiing) had a big hit with the song “And The Beat Goes On”–or something like that. Now, in real estate, 2008, a good song title might be “And The Debate Goes On!” The “debate” is whether or not this is or isn’t [...]