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New Home Sales Up 9.6% - New Is Better Too?

Aug 27, 2009
Here’s the meat from the commerce department’s July new residential sales report released yesterday. Sales of new one-family houses in July 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of...

[Getting Graphic] GDP Size Matters (Bailout-wise)

Oct 23, 2008
Getting Graphic is a semi-sort-of-irregular collection of our favorite BIG real estate-related chart(s).

[Bailout Lobbying] Can't See The Houses For The Trees

Sep 30, 2008
Let’s try something different, take another path through the forest…. Close your eyes for a minute and imagine a Congress that will vote for its constituent’s behalf and their conscious. Imagine they will vote on the issue and not...

[Manhattan Absorption] Price Threshold For Balanced Absorption Continues To Rise

Dec 1, 2009
Absorption defined for the purposes of this chart as: Number of months to sell all listing inventory at the annualized pace of sales activity. The absorption rate continues to improve from a bottom up, approaching the 10-year 10.0 month average for...

Did US Bankruptcy Law Changes Make The Housing Crisis Worse?

Nov 30, 2009
Source: VOX There is a fascinating article by economists Wenli Li and Michelle J. White called Bankruptcy, mortgage default, and foreclosure which discusses how the change in US bankruptcy law (which occurred right in the middle of the period where...

[New Blog] Commercial Grade Goes Solo

Nov 30, 2009
For the past several years, John Cicero, my partner in our commercial appraisal venture Miller Cicero (hands down the best commercial appraisal firm in the NYC metro area), has been laboring in fits and starts to convey his views on commercial real...

[Over Coffee] Quote: inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious and harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive

Nov 30, 2009
There has been a widely followed case reported last week where a Suffolk County Judge, Jeffrey Spinner, erased a $525,000 mortgage by the same California bank that bought IndyMac from FDIC after it went under. Its also about pushing literacy to the...

[A Different Home Laundering] Brokers May Be Forced To File Suspicious Activity Reports

Nov 30, 2009
There’s a pretty interesting story on how money laundering might be making its way to the housing market on MarketWatch: Something to hide: The warning signs a money launderer wants to buy your home. The story caught my eye after my son tried to...

New Home Sales Up 9.6% - New Is Better Too?


[Getting Graphic] GDP Size Matters (Bailout-wise)



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