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Housing Market Insight – Week of September 20th

by Ryan Hinricher | September 20, 2010

The tide is turning with interest rates, which is directly affecting new loan and refinance business. A new report on foreclosures discusses just how bad the problem really is, and a survey about Americans’ confidence in the housing market might just surprise you. Foreclosures Jump 25% RealtyTrac reported that foreclosures rose 25% in August over [...]

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Housing Market Insight – Week of September 13th

by Ryan Hinricher | September 13, 2010

Last week’s housing market sentiment seemed to turn slightly as we saw an about-face in interest rates, and purchase applications. We’ll also discuss the housing inventories, vacancy rates, and what home types you should be investing in now. Vacancy Rates Remain High Despite Low Housing Starts While housing starts remain extremely low (just above a [...]

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Housing Market Insight – Week of August 23rd

by Ryan Hinricher | August 23, 2010

During this most recent mid-month week of housing news, the Obama Administration released its recent Housing Scorecard, Freddie Mac’s interest rate survey continued to shock both analysts and borrowers, a reversal occurred in the latest purchase application trends, and Deutsche Bank made a bold prediction about residential construction jobs. And to close out in the [...]

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Housing Market Insight – July 19th Edition

by Ryan Hinricher | July 19, 2010

Will the sand states take until after 2025 for prices to recover? An article this week thinks so. Also this week, a new trend is emerging in foreclosure notices, concrete evidence that rents have stabilized, and updates on interest rates and mortgage purchase activity. Mortgage Rates Hold at Record Low Freddie Mac’s most recent mortgage [...]

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Housing Market Summary

by Ryan Hinricher | June 28, 2010

Last week offered real estate market news that many of us wish we never heard. The overall sentiment being bearish and offering us a glimpse of what a post-tax credit real estate market looks like. In this article you’ll start seeing emerging trends in New Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Mortgage Purchase Applications, positive news [...]

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Home Buyer Credit Extension Does Its Job, but what’s next?

by Ryan Hinricher | June 7, 2010

Crunching the recent Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) numbers revealed the home buyer credit extension worked. The extension proved not to have diminishing returns as the index nearly matched the recent high set in October, 2009 (110.9 vs. 112.4). This is short term good news for the economy as the extensions have helped the real [...]

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The Ten Best in RE.net This Week: Mar. 13, 2010 Edition

by Dean Ouellette | March 13, 2010

1 ) Real Entrepreneurship – This was a very enjoyable read. You may not think this way often, but real estate agents are true entrepreneurs. 2 ) How To Shop For Mortgages And Keep Your Credit Scores High – Dan Green offers a wealth of information in here that is a must read for agents and home shoppers. [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Invest on the Ground Floor

by Winston Westbrook | November 20, 2009

My grandfather was born in Guayaquil Ecuador in 1906. He came to America in the 70′s and would tell me stories about his business in Ecuador exporting bananas to the United States. He loved America and all it stood for; he wouldn’t drive anything but American made cars. Chevy to be exact, lol. He stated [...]

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Is The Housing Market Overheating . . . Again?

by Peter Giardini | October 27, 2009

It seems that in these past two weeks, we have experienced a tremendous increase in relatively negative news regarding the real estate market. Usually I just chalk up all this negativity to the media working hard to score a few extra bucks. However, this time I am choosing to not be so hard on the [...]

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Commentary

Conflicting Housing Market Data?

by Anwell Tsai | November 13, 2008

Real Estate markets are inefficient and involve non-homogenous assets being negotiated and purchased by private parties. It becomes difficult to track data since conditions of sale, financing, and property rights being sold, among other things, can not be easily verified. However, there are more and more sophisticated indices published by various companies that try to [...]

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Will We Know When The Market Turns?

by Richard Warren | May 19, 2008

“New study reveals that 90% of all statistics confuse 80% of the people 70% of the time!” As investors we are constantly watching the markets for any sign of a change in the trend. The problem is that we are constantly bombarded with data that points us in several different directions at once. It is [...]

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Breaking: Home Prices in US Down Again – Eight Months in a Row

by Joshua Dorkin | October 30, 2007

Looks like the news continues to get worse . . . I wonder what silver lining the Administration is going to spin this time? U.S. home prices fell nationwide in August for the eighth consecutive month, offering little hope of a turnaround anytime soon, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index released Tuesday. Things could get worse, [...]

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San Francisco Fed President – Economic Outlook Risky

by Joshua Dorkin | September 10, 2007

In an effort to analyze the current state of the economy, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President, Janet Yellen, shared with us her take on things:1 She said that declining home prices could hurt consumer spending, and that risks to economic growth would be “significant” if housing prices fall in the context of rising unemployment. [...]

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Be Smart: Don’t Listen to the Media Hype

by Jim Watkins | August 29, 2007

“There are too many foreclosures in my area.” “The market is dead” “New home construction is making it impossible to compete with.” When I hear any of the above statements, my response is, “Whatever.” If everyone believed the media hype about global warming, everyone might move to higher ground. The media continues to report that [...]

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