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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 [...]

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Economy

Good News, Bad News: Home Prices Fall Off A Cliff; Big AntiTrust Case May Help Home Buyers

by Charles Feldman | May 28, 2008

Good news, bad news time for real estate and the general economy this week.
The bad is, I am afraid, very bad, indeed.
Prices for single-family homes took a nose dive in the first quarter of 2008…down an enormous 14.1 percent from the year before.
Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller report, according to Reuters, says this is at “a [...]

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Commentary

The Housing Crisis: How Low Can It Get? Pretty Low!

by Charles Feldman | May 14, 2008

I’d like to say that this is as bad as it gets. I’d like to say it, but I don’t think that is true.
In California alone, just released figures show that last month, 1,000 (that’s one THOUSAND) foreclosed homes were brought to auction each and every weekday–a 44 percent increase just from the month before.
Nationally, [...]

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Commentary

Foreclosures Matter! How Foreclosures have affected homeowners, investors and the economy

by Joshua Dorkin | November 28, 2007

I was reading a post by one of my favorite real estate bloggers, Pat Kitano, about how bloggers seem to be ignoring the foreclosure business, and I was a bit surprised. It seems that many of the other blogs out there have decided to play down the problem or feel that there isn’t a [...]

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