Housing Market News

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Wed Mar 23 2011

House Prices Will Drop Another 20% (businessinsider.com)
Remember the Housing Market? (businessinsider.com)
Who takes the loss of over half a million dollars in this foreclosure? (patrick.net)
One in eight houses empty in Nevada (irvinehousingblog.com)
Bank to sell Chicago units in bulk at stalled condo projects (chicagorealestatedaily.com)
Atlanta metro house prices fall in February (ajc.com)
Is Housing Really in Recovery? (cnbc.com)
Is government's mortgage mission accomplished? (finance.yahoo.com)
For Gold Prices, Is the Bull Run Over? (dailyfinance.com)
3 foreclosures on Bevelery Hills MLS, Realtors hiding 104 more (doctorhousingbubble.com)
James Grant Testifies On The Federal Reserve (dailybail.com)
The Origin of Central Banking and Possible Alternatives (Mish)
Federal Reserve and the opaque banking syndicate (mybudget360.com)
New Civil War erupts, led by super rich, GOP (marketwatch.com)
Rising Wealth Inequality: Should We Care? (nytimes.com)

Tue Mar 22 2011

House sales dive, prices near 9-year low (msnbc.msn.com)
Sales Plummet As Housing Market May Have Further To Fall (huffingtonpost.com)
Don't Hold Your Breath for Residential Real Estate (madhedgefundtrader.com)
Housing still seeks bottom in Stanislaus County, CA (modbee.com)
Boomtowns Humbled After the Bust (nationaljournal.com)
A battle over minimum down payments (irvinehousingblog.com)
English house prices dropped by 45,000 pounds (telegraph.co.uk)
Treasury to Begin Resale of $142 Billion in Crappy Mortgage-Backed Bonds (treasury.gov)
Treasury's Mortgage Debt Sale Comes at Tough Time for Housing (cnbc.com)
If you are buying a Bank of America Short Sale, Watch Out (youtube.com)
Dominoes fall hard for loan cosigner (tbo.com)
New revelations how the Federal Reserve shrugged off housing crash warnings (boston.com)
Supreme Court Gives Fed 5 Days to Release Emergency Bank Loan Details (Mish)
A Unique Form of "Terrorism" - Using Gold as Money (nysun.com)
The Dollar Broke Lower -- So Now What? (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Bankers' plan: Charge you rent to breathe (kpfa.org)

Mon Mar 21 2011

Losing Big - $65,000 Big - On Our First House (finance.yahoo.com)
Why I Am Never Going to Own a House Again (patrick.net)
US Real Estate Prices Continue to Tumble (realtybiznews.com)
California housing market slump persists (latimes.com)
$2 million waterfront house sees 15 price cuts (huntingtonhomes.ocregister.com)
Ex-SDSU coach sells house for $518,000 loss - (signonsandiego.com)
Showdown in the Sunshine State (theatlantic.com)
Nearly 20% of Florida houses are vacant (finance.yahoo.com)
Many Banks Are Clinging to Billions in Bailout Money (dealbook.nytimes.com)
An Advocate Who Scares Republicans (nytimes.com)
Conflict of Interest and Realtor Responsibility (papers.ssrn.com)
Guilty plea in foreclosure auction rigging (recordnet.com)
A Dysfunctional Fix to a Dysfunctional System (reason.com)
A bankruptcy attorney's view of the housing bubble aftermath (irvinehousingblog.com)
A Lawyer's Perspective on... Promoting Failure in America (capitalismwithoutfailure.com)
This Is What Class War Looks Like (dailykos.com)
Manifesto detailed in Corte Madera bank standoff (marinij.com)
Rental Houses of the Ultra-Rich (foxnews.com)
Iowa couple exploits loophole to get free house (desmoinesregister.com)
Keep the housing crash news alive in 2011! $22,293 raised so far, 22.293% of goal

Fri Mar 18 2011

Falling house prices leave buyers from 2005, 2006 feeling trapped (sun-sentinel.com)
Silicon Valley prices down 3%; distress transactions dominate Bay Area (mercurynews.com)
FHA and cash investors dominate So. CA housing market (doctorhousingbubble.com)
"Housewife's" mansion sells for $3M (down $2M from November) (lansner.ocregister.com)
Shrinking Labor Pool Means Shrinking Demand For Housing (Mish)
Theoretically: What happens if ALL houseowners stop paying their mortgage? (patrick.net)
Fed policies distort values, prices, and confidence (kingdomecon.wordpress.com)
Main result of Federal Reserve's QE2: US food prices soar (latimes.com)
Realtors expect to revise sales downward (just an honest mistake...) (lansner.ocregister.com)
Aussie House Prices: The median folly (aussiehouseprices.blogspot.com)
Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Could Impact US Home Prices (ourbroker.com)
At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required (huffingtonpost.com)
Income tax chart shows assault on middle class (news.yahoo.com)
Democrats now nearly as corrupted by lobbyists as Republicans (opensecrets.org)

Thu Mar 17 2011

Marin house prices plummet 18% in February (marinij.com)
Southern California median house price falls, sales hit three-year low (irvinehousingblog.com)
Condo owners can't sell, can't rent (lexisnexis.com)
Shocking suggestion that downpayments be raised to 20% (finance.fortune.cnn.com)
US housing starts slump 22.5%, near record-low (marketwatch.com)
Housing Market Will Be Fine Without 30-Year Fixed Loans (investors.com)
Lawyer loses license for advising clients to break into foreclosures (dailybusinessreview.com)
Corporations Versus Individuals: The End of the Left/Right Paradigm (disinfo.com)
Americans Doomed to Medical Poverty Rises to 52 Million on Premium Hikes (bloomberg.com)
Dividends Enrich Bank CEOs (via Federal Reserve theft of depositor interest) (nytimes.com)
In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, Gift to Big Banks (propublica.org)
How the middle class became the underclass (The ultra-rich took it all) (money.cnn.com)
Jan Schakowsky Introduces Bill To Raise Taxes For Ultra-Rich Elite (huffingtonpost.com)
WI GOP Senators Head to DC to Collect Payoffs, er, Campaign Contributions (thenation.com)
Ronald Reagan praising collective bargaining (dvorak.org)
The more loved you feel, the less you value material things (sciencedaily.com)

Wed Mar 16 2011

Houses sit empty across SF East Bay (contracostatimes.com)
Southern California House Sales Fall to Lowest for February in 3 Years (bloomberg.com)
Nevada's boom ends in record number of empty houses (news.yahoo.com)
Chicago South Loop condo tower converting to apartments (chicagorealestatedaily.com)
US vs. Canadian house prices (csmonitor.com)
How to Lose Your House in Foreclosure, Then Receive a Check (money.blogs.time.com)
Discipline Case Filed Against Foreclosure Break-In Lawyer (abajournal.com)
BofA Leak Exposes Possible Force-Placed Insurance Fraud (dailybail.com)
Ex-Chief Of Freddie May Face Civil Action (dealbook.nytimes.com)
UBS Being Investigated Over Possible Manipulation of Libor (dealbook.nytimes.com)
How Long Can the Fed Continue to Downplay Inflation? (dailyfinance.com)
$300 Oil is on the Way (financialsense.com)
Does Anyone Seriously Believe the Global Recovery Is Still Intact? (Charles Hugh Smith)
Obama housing aide to be mortgage banking lobbyist (reuters.com)
Wisconsin Republicans to meet with corporate lobbyists in DC (digitaljournal.com)
The Collapse of The Suburbs in California (youtube.com)

Tue Mar 15 2011

Hackers Release BofA Mortgage Emails (forbes.com)
Hacker group releases Bank of America documents (knoxnews.com)
Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud (bankofamericasuck.com)
AmpedStatus Network -- A99 (ampedstatus.org)
The rich, bankers especially, can defraud without consequences (nytimes.com)
As house prices double dip, pundits debate how low it will go (irvinehousingblog.com)
The perils of property (economist.com)
'Break-in' lawyer threat to the public, Bar says (mortgage.ocregister.com)
Fannie Mae's Fraudulent REO Disclosure Practices (housingstorm.com)
Realtor charged in mortgage fraud case (news-journalonline.com)
Likely Economic Effects of the Japanese Earthquake (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
The Economic Aftershock of Japan (usawatchdog.com)
Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff (not finance) (guardian.co.uk)
Are Chinese Ready to Rent? (newgeography.com)
Loaning a friend money... What could go wrong? (patrick.net)

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