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Real Estate News

Economy Continues To Take A Beating From Housing Crisis Fallout

by Charles Feldman | March 7, 2008

The economy is sinking faster than a mafia hitman wearing cement shoes in water; and, the mortgage/housing crisis is clearly to blame.

Wall Street was apparently totally shocked today when the Labor Department reported that 63, 000 nonfarm jobs were lost last month….As Reuters points out, the problem is that Wall Street experts had expected that [...]

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Economy

2008-Year of The Implosion?

by Charles Feldman | January 2, 2008

Nothing like kicking off the new year on a positive note. And, I can assure you, what you are about to read is anything but “positive.”
In fact, when it comes to the ever expanding subprime mortgage fiasco,the fun, say some experts, is only about to begin.
Before 2008 slips into 2009, some 1.8 million homeowners are [...]

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Housing

Housing Crisis Hits California Economy Like Ton Of Bricks

by Charles Feldman | November 6, 2007

Anyone living in California knows that it is the aftermath of an earthquake that reveals its true intensity, not the numbers generated by some graph at a university. An earthquake is really measured in dishes broken, windows smashed or, in the worst cases, houses destroyed.

And so it is that in California, the aftermath of a [...]

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Commentary

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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Housing

Breaking News: Existing Home Sales Fall by Largest Amount Ever!

by Joshua Dorkin | October 24, 2007

Sales of existing homes plunged by a record amount in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16 years. The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell 8 percent in September, the largest decline to show up in records [...]

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Commentary

Nation’s Largest Lender to Slash 12,000 Jobs

by Joshua Dorkin | September 7, 2007

The nation’s largest lender, Countrywide, tonight announced that in an effort to cut costs and essentially save the company, it would be cutting 12,000 jobs.
The cuts, amounting to as much as 20 percent of its work force, are needed because the company expects new mortgages to fall about 25 percent in 2008 from this [...]

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