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Housing Market Insight – Week of September 27th

by Ryan Hinricher | September 27, 2010

Highlights from last week’s housing market include; home price reports from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and Radar Logic, an update on interest rates and mortgage applications, and an important report from the National Association of Realtors on existing home sales and inventories. Double-Dip in Home Prices Becomes Reality This week the Federal Housing Finance [...]

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Real Estate News

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

Sharp fall in Mortgage Applications Shows Housing not ready to recover

by Ryan Hinricher | June 14, 2010

Last week the Mortgage Bankers Association revealed that purchase applications are down 35% in the last month showing the after effects of the home buyer tax credit. Further, refinance activity dropped for the first time in month even though rates have remained low. Apparently anyone who could refinance has already done so. Many borrowers aren’t [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Commercial Real Estate in a Crystal Ball

by Ted Karsch | June 4, 2009

Typically the performance of the commercial real estate market in the United States trails behind the rest of the economy and the residential real estate market by at least one year. After watching the painful decline of the US residential real estate market over the past year, many industry watchers are wondering what the future [...]

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Commentary

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Abandon Lenders and Investors

by Joshua Dorkin | September 6, 2007

The President and others in office continue to tell us how well our economy is doing. Lets take a look at some of the latest news to see how things are

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